Cribl

Cribl is an AI platform for telemetry built for IT and security teams at large enterprises. Founded in 2018 by Clint Sharp, Dritan Bitincka, and Ledion Bitincka in San Francisco, the platform provides a vendor-agnostic data engine that handles the full lifecycle of observability data—from collection and routing to storage and search—without locking customers into any single vendor or tool.

What It Is

Cribl positions itself as the foundational telemetry infrastructure layer for the AI era. The platform is a suite of composable products—Cribl Stream, Cribl Edge, Cribl Search, Cribl Lake, and Cribl.Cloud—that together enable organizations to ingest, process, store, and query logs, metrics, traces, and configuration data at enterprise scale. Rather than replacing existing analytics or SIEM tools, Cribl sits in front of them, giving teams control over what data goes where, in what format, and at what cost.

The Product Suite

The Cribl platform consists of five core products that can be used independently or together:

• Cribl Stream — A stream processing engine described on the product page as "the industry's leading observability pipeline." It routes, reduces, reformats, and enriches telemetry data from any source to any destination, and supports multicasting to multiple destinations simultaneously.
• Cribl Edge — An intelligent agent for large-scale edge data collection with centralized fleet management, automatic OS and application telemetry detection, and selective forwarding.
• Cribl Search — A federated search tool that queries data in place across any storage tier without requiring data movement or rehydration. The March 2026 blog post describes it as "faster, simpler, AI-driven" with agentic AI enhancements announced the same month.
• Cribl Lake — A turnkey storage solution that retains data in its original format, eliminating preprocessing overhead and enabling cost-effective long-term retention with instant retrieval.
• Cribl.Cloud — A managed cloud delivery model for the full suite, with consumption-based pricing and infrastructure managed by Cribl.

Core Use Cases

The platform targets several high-priority enterprise initiatives:

• Investigations and incident response — Unifying ingest, storage, and analysis so SREs, developers, and security teams can search across all telemetry without blind spots.
• Cost control — Reducing data volumes, tiering "just-in-case" data to low-cost storage, and avoiding surprise bills from downstream analytics tools.
• SIEM migration and optimization — Decoupling telemetry pipelines from specific SIEM vendors to enable faster migrations and multi-tool strategies.
• SOC modernization — Preparing security telemetry for AI-driven SOC agents and reducing labor costs associated with data onboarding and parsing.
• Telemetry as a shared service — Enabling central logging teams to deliver governed, multi-tenant telemetry pipelines across business units.

Integration Ecosystem

Cribl publishes integrations with a broad range of tools across security, observability, cloud, and networking. Documented integrations include Splunk, Elastic, Datadog, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Confluent, Snowflake, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, New Relic, Sumo Logic, SentinelOne, Exabeam, Wiz, Kubernetes, Fluentbit, Telegraf, and others.

Update: Agentic AI and FedRAMP Milestones (Early 2026)

In March 2026, Cribl announced agentic AI enhancements to Cribl Search, described in the company's newsroom as making search "faster, simpler, AI-driven." In January 2026, Cribl achieved FedRAMP Authority to Operate for U.S. federal government agencies, enabling Cribl.Cloud Government for federal use cases. The company's about page states it surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue as of December 2025, and the about page also notes the company crossed $200 million ARR in January 2025 after growing more than 70 percent year-over-year. The company states it serves over 1,400 customers and partners with half of the Fortune 100, per its own published company stats.

Deployment Model and Access

Cribl is available as a self-managed download (on-premises or private cloud), as a fully managed SaaS via Cribl.Cloud, and as a sandbox/trial environment. The homepage states that processing up to 1 TB/day requires no license, positioning the free tier as a meaningful entry point for smaller deployments. The platform supports community, standard, and enterprise support tiers.