Vector sink documentation discrepancy – addresses/routing issue.

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Problem

I think there is a direct contradiction between the official documentation for the vector sink and the actual configuration validation in the CLI.

https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/vector/#routing

The documentation for the vector sink states that the address field is deprecated in favor of routing.endpoints. However, when attempting to use the routing block, vector validate rejects it as an unknown field.

I'm getting this error when validating my config:

Failed to load ["/etc/vector/vector.yaml"]
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x unknown field `routing`, expected one of `version`, `address`, `compression`, `batch`, `request`, `tls`, `acknowledgements`



in `sinks.cdn_vector_out_clickhouse`

Configuration

sinks:
  cdn_vector_out_clickhouse:
    type: vector
    inputs:
      - cdn_vector_log_route.cdn_vector_file_0
      - cdn_vector_log_route.cdn_vector_file_1
      - cdn_vector_log_route.cdn_vector_file_2
    routing:
      endpoints:
        - "172.22.1.1:5659"
      strategy: "load_balance"
    buffer:
      type: memory
      max_events: 1000000
      when_full: drop_newest

Version

vector 0.56.0 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu 6817c02 2026-06-03 14:25:37.451398530)

Debug Output

Example Data

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References

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