Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Telemetry data is growing at an average of 29% a year — doubling costs every 18 months. That’s putting pressure on ITOps budgets, observability platforms, SecOps teams, and SIEM deployments alike. In this post, we’ll explore how unchecked data volumes, siloed tools, and aging architectures are creating a telemetry cost crunch that limits visibility, slows both troubleshooting and threat detection, and impacts business outcomes.

As a Co-founder and CPO at Cribl, I'm genuinely stoked that our new federal suite, Cribl.Cloud Government, has achieved an “In Process” designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). This isn’t any old milestone. We’re bringing all of Cribl’s kickass capabilities to government agencies, even those that require the strictest compliance and security standards. Because, who doesn’t love a good set of rules?

Way back in 2009, when I was serving as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, I worked in a network operations center for a deployed Army unit. Our mission was to provide network connectivity across central and northern Iraq. Our observability tools were incredibly limited. We had a network map that would turn nodes and network links red, yellow, and green when they were up or down. We had to write down in a physical logbook any status changes and what we did about them.

Today, more than ever, organizations face a difficult balancing act: how to keep sensitive data fully under their control while still making it accessible and usable so teams can unlock the value and insights they need. Industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government agencies often must comply with strict regulations that require data to remain in environments they directly own and manage.

Your security teams face escalating data volumes, vendor changes, and cost pressures when they migrate between SIEM platforms. Cribl simplifies these migrations by giving you flexible data routing, reducing storage costs, and accelerating time-to-value. How? Let’s look at how a global customer used Cribl Stream to migrate CrowdStrike FDR logs from Splunk to Microsoft Sentinel efficiently and cost-effectively.