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Disconnected pipelines. Unknown data sources. Costs that do not add up. Many teams struggle to answer a simple question. What data do we have and where is it going? In this clip, a Cribl customer explains how bringing all telemetry data together changed everything. With Cribl, their team can finally see what they collect, where it flows, and what it costs. That clarity unlocked smarter reduction, better routing decisions, and major optimization across security and observability workflows.

Customers asked for a simpler way to store and access telemetry data, and Cribl delivered. First came Cribl Lake. Cost effective data storage, flexible access, and identity based authorization instead of infrastructure based access rules. A simple way to retain data at rest and run slow, inexpensive analytics when needed. But the story did not end there.

In this episode of Pastries and SREs, our hosts tackle one of the hardest questions observability leaders face: "How do you prove the ROI of observability?" This isn’t just about uptime or dashboards. It’s also about aligning observability with business outcomes, cloud cost savings, and FinOps metrics that matter to leadership.

The revamped panel brings color highlighting, more flexible search, and an overall smoother experience to help you quickly find the “why” behind every log line. This is generally available in all editions of Grafana.