Jesse Szwedko

> Whatever happened to this issue? It looks like it is still a valid enhancement request.

Closing since I don't think we'll be picking up testing in via `cross` due to the lack of value given I don't think we've ever had a platform specific bug...

This looks like an issue with the TOML parsing library, https://github.com/alexcrichton/toml-rs/issues/256, where it always parses integers as signed i64s.

Closing this since [they don't plan to change this behavior upstream](https://github.com/toml-rs/toml/issues/512) and the error message we get is better now: ``` 2023-07-24T16:29:27.132160Z ERROR vector::cli: Configuration error. error=TOML parse error at...

Closing since no external users have seemed to run into this.

We could consider packaging Vector without the `host_metrics` source for FreeBSD until the requisite changes could be made to `heim`. Briefly looking at https://github.com/unrelentingtech/systemstat, however, it does seem like that...

Indeed, the RFC does mention other alternative crates: https://github.com/timberio/vector/pull/3581/files#diff-1f4a48456df1b2a20b22c6139776d5f1c9e7b870f18db49b16683acffb732931R29-R38 And points to comparison matrix in heim: https://github.com/heim-rs/heim/blob/master/COMPARISON.md Heim does support more options, in particular system introspection things like kernel version,...

Just noting that I started work on this with #10614 but haven't been able to focus on it recently.

> @jszwedko any updates? :) Unfortunately nothing on my end. I'd be happy to see someone pick up https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/pull/10614 if they are motivated though.

This is a docs only update so I don't think most of the normal PR checklist is relevant, but let me know if you want me to run any of...