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Problem

Binary /usr/bin/journalctl is not found in the Alpine base image. When I use the journald source I got the following error, the image is ghcr.io/vectordotdev/vector:nightly-2025-05-08-alpine

2025-05-08T07:43:43.542506Z ERROR source{component_kind="source" component_id=kubelet_logs component_type=journald}: vector::internal_events::journald: Error starting journalctl process. error=journalctl failed to execute: No such file or directory (os error 2) error_type="command_failed" stage="receiving" internal_log_rate_limit=true

When I change the image to ghcr.io/vectordotdev/vector:nightly-2025-05-08-debian, this error message disappears.

Configuration

Version

ghcr.io/vectordotdev/vector:nightly-2025-05-08-alpine

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