Cribl
Sits between your telemetry sources and their destinations, letting you filter, reshape and route log data before you pay to store it.
Highlights
- Data Accuracy: Ensures that data from various monitoring infrastructures is accurate.
- Optimized for AIOps: Data is formatted specifically for effective deployment of AI in IT operations.
- Integration with Monitoring Tools: Seamless integration with various monitoring tools to gather data.
- Enhanced IT Operations: Leveraging AI to make IT operations more efficient and data-driven.
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About Cribl
What it is
Cribl is a telemetry pipeline. It sits between the systems producing logs, metrics and traces and the tools that consume them, letting you filter noise, reshape events, enrich them and route the same stream to several destinations — including cheap object storage alongside an expensive analytics platform.
Why it's different
The economics are the entire argument. Observability vendors charge by ingest, log volume grows faster than budgets, and a large share of what gets indexed is never queried — so teams end up choosing between visibility and cost. Cribl breaks that by putting a control point in front of the bill: drop what nobody reads, route the rest by value. It also breaks vendor lock-in, since switching platforms becomes a routing change. The honest caveats: it is another critical system in the path of your telemetry, so its failure mode is blindness at the worst moment, and dropping the wrong events is a decision you discover during an incident.
How people use it
It is bought by organisations whose observability bill has become a board-level number, and the measurable outcome is ingest volume reduced without losing the data anyone actually queries. The pattern that works is routing everything to cheap storage as a backstop while trimming what reaches the expensive tool, so a wrong filtering decision is recoverable rather than permanent.
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