Yesterday, we officially announced Cribl Edge, a next-generation observability agent. You can find more about its features here. In this post, I am going to walk you through the journey of incepting and building this new product. Our most important core value at Cribl is “Customers First, Always.” and that involves actively listening and being on the lookout for any pains our customers might be experiencing.

It’s been a busy Winter at Cribl! Today we are officially announcing Cribl Edge, a next-generation agent that expands the scope of observability. In Edge, we’ve taken the very concept of “agent” and given it a Cribl power-up by taking our best-in-class observability pipeline technology built into Cribl Stream and moving it all the way out to edge systems.

In 2022, administrators are still managing agents which collect data for observability and security the same way they did 15 years ago: typing in configuration files by hand. A lot has changed since 2006 when Amazon announced AWS. Instead of racking and stacking servers in data centers, we’re spinning up compute resources in a variety of forms – at the click of a button, or automatically through APIs.

We’ve come a long way in a short time and that is thanks to you, our customers. Cribl set out to listen to our customers and use that to guide us forward. Today we’re announcing Cribl Edge, a next generation agent designed to to scale your most precious commodity; you. We’re also announcing a name change to the product formally known as LogStream. Now, as with all our releases, it doesn’t stop there. We have some upgrades that all go towards allowing you to scale.

We’re well into 2022, and it’s full steam ahead addressing challenges and moving IT and SRE projects to completion. Are you ready for the challenges ahead of you? Do you feel prepared to handle the work you know about…and the work that’s sure to come your way? Are you ready for the end-of-the-year budget planning process that will be here before you know it? To help, I’d like to share my learnings from 20+ years in IT.