VStream is a change notification service accessible via VTGate. The purpose of VStream is to provide equivalent information to the MySQL binary logs from the underlying MySQL shards of the Vitess cluster. gRPC clients, including Vitess components like VTTablets, can subscribe to a VStream to receive change events from other shards. The VStream pulls events from one or more VStreamer instances on VTTablet instances, which in turn pulls events from the binary log of the underlying MySQL instance. This allows for efficient execution of functions such as VReplication where a subscriber can indirectly receive events from the binary logs of one or more MySQL instance shards, and then apply it to a target instance. A user can leverage VStream to obtain in-depth information about data change events for a given Vitess keyspace, shard, and position. A single VStream can also consolidate change events from multiple shards in a keyspace, making it a convenient tool to feed a CDC (Change Data Capture) process downstream from your Vitess datastore.

For reference, please refer to the diagram below:

Note: A VStream is distinct from a VStreamer. The former is located on the VTGate and the latter is located on the VTTablet.