About Cribl
Cribl was founded in 2018 by Clint Sharp, Ledion Bitincka, and Dritan Bitincka, drawing on their prior experience at Splunk, a major log management and observability company, where they had directly observed how expensive and operationally difficult it became for large enterprises to manage the enormous and rapidly growing volumes of machine-generated data, such as application logs, security event data, and infrastructure metrics, that modern IT and security operations depend on, but that traditional log management tools often charge for based on data volume, creating a strong incentive to reduce or filter unnecessary data before it reaches expensive downstream analysis systems.
Cribl's flagship product, Cribl Stream, sits between the many different sources generating this machine data and the various downstream systems, such as security information and event management (SIEM) tools, observability platforms, and long-term storage, that consume it, letting organizations filter, transform, reduce, and route this data intelligently before it reaches potentially expensive destination systems, which the company argues can meaningfully reduce the total cost of data-intensive observability and security operations without sacrificing the visibility teams need. This "observability pipeline" category has grown significantly as the volume of machine data generated by modern cloud-native and microservices architectures has increased dramatically, often outpacing the budgets organizations have allocated for the downstream tools that ingest and analyze that data. Cribl has positioned itself as vendor-neutral middleware that can route data to any of a very wide range of downstream destinations, giving customers flexibility to change or diversify which security and observability tools they use without needing to re-architect how data flows from source systems. The company has raised very substantial venture funding from investors including Greylock Partners, IVP, and CRV, reaching a valuation exceeding $3.5 billion, competing with data pipeline capabilities offered by larger platforms including Splunk itself and other observability data management vendors.
