Cribl
Data engine for routing and shaping IT and security telemetry
About Cribl
Cribl provides a vendor-neutral data engine that collects, reduces, enriches and routes logs, metrics and traces between sources and destinations. Security, IT and observability teams use it to control telemetry volume and cost and to avoid lock-in to a single analytics tool.
Common use cases
- Cut SIEM ingest costs
- Route logs to multiple tools
- Mask sensitive fields in telemetry
- Migrate between observability vendors
Products and services
Cribl Stream
Pipeline for collecting, transforming and routing telemetry data
Cribl Edge
Agent-based collection and processing at the source
Cribl Search
Queries data in place without moving it first
Cribl Lake
Storage for telemetry retained for later analysis
Key features
- Data routing
- Log reduction
- Data masking
- Format conversion
- Replay from storage
- Search in place
Integrations
- Splunk
- Elastic
- Datadog
- Amazon S3
- Snowflake
- Microsoft Sentinel
- CrowdStrike
- Google Cloud
Cribl alternatives
- EDEdge Delta
- DODatadog Observability Pipelines
- MEMezmo
- SplunkData, security and observability platform; AI agent monitoring via Cisco
FAQs
What does Cribl do?
It sits between data sources and destinations to filter, enrich and route telemetry such as logs and metrics.
Can it run on-premises?
Yes; the product is offered as cloud-managed and as self-managed software.
Who uses it?
Primarily security, IT operations and observability teams in larger organizations.

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