sinks.md.erb

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title: Sinks
description: "Vector sinks fan-out logs and metrics data to a variety of downstream destinations. These could be exact services, like Elasticsearch, or generic protocols, like HTTP or TCP."
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Vector sinks fan-out [log][docs.data-model.log] and
[metric][docs.data-model.metric] [events][docs.data-model] data to a
variety of downstream destinations. They are responsible for reliably sending,
or outputting, this data.

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