Cribl Stream
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What is Cribl Stream
Cribl Stream is an observability data pipeline product that collects, parses, filters, enriches, and routes machine data (logs, metrics, and events) from sources to one or more analytics and monitoring destinations. It is used by platform, SRE/DevOps, and security teams to control data volume, standardize formats, and manage where telemetry is sent across on-prem and cloud environments. The product emphasizes vendor-neutral routing, in-flight transformations, and policy-based controls to support multi-destination observability and security workflows.
Flexible routing and fan-out
Cribl Stream supports routing the same telemetry stream to multiple destinations, which helps teams run parallel tools, migrations, or split use cases (operations vs. security). It provides controls to direct data based on content, source, or metadata, rather than forcing a single downstream system. This is particularly useful in environments that use multiple analytics backends or need to avoid tight coupling to one platform.
In-flight data transformation
The product performs parsing, filtering, masking, enrichment, and normalization before data reaches downstream systems. This can reduce ingestion volume and improve consistency of fields across sources, which simplifies searches, dashboards, and alerting later. It also enables governance-oriented processing (for example, redacting sensitive fields) closer to the point of collection.
Broad ecosystem connectivity
Cribl Stream is designed to sit between many common log/telemetry sources and a variety of destinations, including cloud services and self-managed platforms. This connector approach helps teams integrate heterogeneous environments without rewriting application instrumentation. It also supports staged adoption where existing collectors and destinations remain in place while the pipeline is introduced.
Not a full analytics suite
Cribl Stream focuses on moving and shaping telemetry rather than providing a primary search, visualization, or long-term analytics experience. Organizations still need downstream systems for querying, dashboards, alerting, and retention management. Buyers expecting an end-to-end log analysis or monitoring platform will need to pair it with other tools.
Operational complexity at scale
Running an always-on pipeline layer adds another production system to deploy, monitor, and upgrade. At high throughput, teams must plan capacity, high availability, and failure handling to avoid data loss or backpressure. This can increase operational burden compared with simpler single-destination forwarding setups.
Transformation governance requires rigor
In-flight transformations can create inconsistencies if multiple teams implement overlapping rules or if pipelines drift across environments. Maintaining version control, testing, and change management for parsing and routing logic becomes important as usage grows. Without disciplined governance, downstream users may see field changes that break saved searches, detections, or dashboards.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 — Process up to 1 TB/day (no license required) | Universal Sources, Unlimited Pipelines, Unlimited Routes, Community support; available for Cribl.Cloud or self-hosted download. |
| Standard | Consumption or license options: | |
| --- | --- |
- Consumption: 0.32 Credits/GB (Cloud Worker) or 0.26 Credits/GB (Hybrid Worker) — credits equal USD $1 each.
- Example license (listed in Cribl Pricing Guide): Up to 500 GB/day — $50,000; Up to 1 TB/day — $84,000. | Everything in Free plus Git backup, Notifications, 8×5 Support, up to 5 TB/day (Cribl.Cloud limits); credits are burned at ingest and infrastructure costs apply. | | Plan | Price | Key features & notes | | --- | --- | --- | | Enterprise | Consumption (credits) or contact Sales for flat-rate/license | Everything in Standard plus Unlimited TB/day, Multiple Workspaces, Connected Environments, RBAC & Federated Auth, Dedicated 24×7 Support; for large volumes contact Sales. |
Additional official pricing notes:
- Cribl.Cloud (consumption) ingest pricing (Stream): 0.32 Credits/GB per Cloud Worker; 0.26 Credits/GB per Hybrid Worker. (1 Credit = $1). (Cribl Guard scanned data: 0.15 Credits/GB). cite
- Alternative license (daily-ingest) examples are listed in the official Cribl Pricing Guide (e.g., $50,000 for up to 500GB/day; $84,000 for up to 1TB/day). cite
- Feature/limit matrix (Free / Standard / Enterprise) is published on Cribl pricing page (Free = up to 1TB/day; Standard = up to 5TB/day; Enterprise = Unlimited). cite
Seller details
Cribl, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, USA
2018
Private
https://cribl.io/
https://x.com/criblinc
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cribl/
