2020-06-10-consolidate-and-beautify-validate.md

date	2020-07-13
title	Beautification of the validate command
description	A little polish on a useful feature.
authors	hoverbear
hide_on_release_notes	false
pr_numbers	2622
release	0.10.0
badges	type domains enhancement ux

We gave vector validate some touching up to make it look better, and feel nicer to use. This was heavily inspired by the fantastic linkerd validate command.

Take a gander at the new output on a good valid configuration:

vic@sticky-keyboard-macbook:/git/vectordotdev/vector$ vector validate test.toml
√ Loaded "test.toml"
√ Configuration topology
√ Component configuration
√ Health check `sink0`
-------------------------
                Validated

Now an invalid configuration:

vic@sticky-keyboard-macbook:/git/vectordotdev/vector$ vector validate test.toml
Failed to parse "test.toml"
---------------------------
x missing field `type` for key `sinks.sink1`