Cribl
Security data pipeline platform for routing, reducing, and transforming observability data
Pricing: Free (up to 1 TB/day) / Enterprise custom pricing
Reviewed by the Cyber Vendor Guide editorial team against the public sources cited below · Last reviewed February 2026 · How we review listings
What is Cribl?
Cribl Stream is a security data pipeline platform that gives organizations control over their observability and security data. It routes, reduces, transforms, and enriches data in flight between any source and any destination, helping teams optimize data volumes, reduce SIEM costs, and build flexible data architectures. Cribl enables security teams to send the right data to the right destination at the right time, eliminating vendor lock-in and reducing total data management costs.
- ✓ Dramatically reduces SIEM ingest costs
- ✓ Vendor-agnostic routing to any destination
- ✓ Powerful data transformation and enrichment
- ✓ Free tier for small deployments
- ✓ Active community and extensive documentation
- • Adds another layer to manage in the data pipeline
- • Enterprise pricing can be expensive at scale
- • Steep learning curve for advanced pipeline logic
- • Self-hosted deployment requires infrastructure expertise
- • Limited built-in analytics. Requires downstream tools
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Quick Info
| Pricing | Free (up to 1 TB/day) / Enterprise custom pricing |
| Model | Volume-based (daily throughput) |
| Founded | 2018 |
| Cloud | Yes |
| Self-Hosted | No |
Last updated: Feb 20, 2026
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