Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

May 2024

Parallelizing with Playwright: A Scalable Win for Cribl.Cloud

An oft-forgotten component of robust, production-ready code is testing. The moat protects us from costly service interruptions and fortifies trust in our product with our customers. Simply put, it’s in the critical path of damn good software. However, as we scale a cloud product to serve a rapidly growing user base, our test case scenarios scale correspondingly. As far as testing goes, end-to-end (E2E) testing most closely mirrors the end-user experience.

Have You Done Your Spring Cleaning (Of Agents)?

While spring is traditionally the time for tidying up for most folks, IT and Security teams know it is important always to maintain a clean, streamlined environment. However, we understand that doesn’t always happen with growing data volumes, stagnant budgets, and changing organizational priorities. This blog is to help you understand if you are properly overdue for a clean-up.

My 3 Lessons About OpenTelemetry for Observability

As a fan of OpenTelemetry, I love to see Cribl meeting customers where they are and helping them get to where they want to be with a vendor-agnostic approach. Where it is not possible or practical to re-instrument a telemetry source, whether an application or infrastructure, the barrier to adopting OpenTelemetry Signals can be daunting.

Isolation: A New Wave of Experiences to Help Teams Work Side by Side

Cribl offers a suite of tools designed to optimize data pipelines, with different components tailored for managing and orchestrating data flows at scale across different teams and data sources. One of the biggest problems with building and running a multi-team data engine is isolation. This blog will cover how we at Cribl have handled the challenge of data, configuration, and access isolation for growing teams.

Cribl Packs a Punch: Unpacking the Integration with Microsoft Azure Sentinel with Cribl Source and Destination Packs

With IT modernization and increased cloud usage, more organizations are looking to Software-as-a-Service offerings for their security and data needs. Microsoft Azure Sentinel is a cloud-based SIEM that security operation centers rely on for data analytics. Cribl makes it easier for Microsoft Azure Sentinel customers to get data into their security analytics platform. Leveraging Cribl Packs, organizations can easily ingest data from various vendors with various formats while requiring little effort.

Tackling the Unsustainable Skills Challenge in Cybersecurity and Observability

This is the third and final post in a series of blog posts about the disconnect between modern IT and security teams and the vendors they’re forced to work with. If you’re looking for the first and second posts, you can find them here and here.

Finding a Better Way to Work in the Cloud!

With the 4.6 release, Cribl.Cloud Enterprise users now have the opportunity to opt-in to a new cloud experience. As a deeply customer-centric company, we listened to your feedback, and we heard you! We are making our user experience efficient, secure, and flexible. As we work to refine this new experience, we invite you to partner with us and share your input to influence this transformation as it makes its way across the entire Cribl suite!

Navigating the Maze of Incumbent Pricing Models in IT and Security

This is the second in a series of blog posts about the disconnect between modern IT and security teams and the vendors they’re forced to work with. If you’re looking for the first and last posts, you can find it here. In the dynamic world of managing observability and telemetry data, pricing models for tools and platforms are showing their age, creating a significant disconnect between vendors and the IT and security teams they serve.

The Journey to 100x-ing Control Plane Scale for Cribl Edge

At Cribl, we value the simplest and quickest path to shipping new things. This is especially true with shipping new products. We took this approach with Cribl Edge, so we could get it into the hands of existing and potential customers as soon as possible to learn more about their needs and requirements. In order to ship a high-quality Edge product quickly, we based all of the systems for management and data streaming directly on the existing, battle-tested systems we built for Stream.

Scaling in the Cloud with Cribl's Universal Receiver

Scaling cloud services is a critical task for Site Reliability Engineers, and it’s a challenging one. As organizations grow, the amount of data and the number of users of it grow like crazy, pushing traditional data management methods to their limits. SREs not only have to keep everything running, they’ve got to make sure it runs smoothly, efficiently, and swiftly.

A New Era of Cloud Security with Cribl and Wiz

Cribl is an integrations company at heart. We want to help every company develop a data strategy that gives them more control, improves security, and provides flexibility to adapt to their ever-changing data needs. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we are a Certified Wiz Integration (WIN) Partner to help customers take their cloud security game to the next level.

Square Pegs, Round Holes: The Challenge of Integrating MELT Data into Traditional Data Warehouses

This is the first in a series of blog posts about the disconnect between modern IT and security teams and the vendors they’re forced to work with. If you’re looking for the second and third posts, you can find them here and here. Imagine this scenario: You’re grappling with the ever-escalating costs of your legacy solutions. What’s the logical next step? For many, it’s exploring the new wave of tools emerging, such as data warehouses.

Cribl Collaborates with Microsoft: Empowering Enterprises to Strengthen their Security Operations

As the cybersecurity landscape becomes more and more complex. It seems like we hear about a major breach of a different company every day. Enterprises are looking for robust solutions to help them manage the surge in data and security incidents. That’s why our recent collaboration announcement with Microsoft means so much to us. It’s not just a piece of paper; it’s a testament to our dedication to providing customers with the best tools and solutions for the job.

Identity Governance in Cribl.Cloud

This blog post explores Cribl.Cloud‘s approach to Identity Governance (IG), a crucial strategy for securing access to critical systems and data. Learn how Cribl.Cloud leverages IG to ensure security, compliance, efficiency, and customer trust, while also tackling the challenges of managing custom SaaS APIs within an IG framework.

Pipeline Talk: Between Two Fernders Edition

Cribl’s co-founders, Clint Sharp, Dritan Bitincka, and Ledion Bitincka, recently took time to host a Between two Fernders edition of Pipeline Talk at the Cribl offices to discuss a wide variety of topics, including Cribl Lake, the N-Gage, WWE aspirations, fishing poles, how CAT6 cabling is not named after actual cats, and wondering if Apple’s iPhone will be a consumer hit (Yes, we know what year it is, but the host clearly doesn’t).