>you just gave every namespace a vector instance that was responsible for that namespace and pods within.
Vector is a daemonset, because it needs to tail the log files on each node. A single vector per namespace might not reside on the nodes that each pod is on.
I think DaemonSet is to reduce network load so Vector is not pulling logs files over the network.
We run Vector as Daemonset as well but we don't have a ton of namespaces. Render sounds like they have a ton of namespaces running maybe one or two pods since their customers are much smaller. This is probably much more niche setup then many users of Kubernetes.
That's where the design is wrong.