Cribl is the telemetry control plane we are expert in. One of four platforms we master.
Cribl sits between every telemetry source and every destination as a vendor-neutral control layer. One pipeline, many destinations, full fidelity preserved in open-format storage. We design and implement it, the same way we design and implement Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Datadog.
What problem does a telemetry control plane solve?
Most environments collect telemetry once per destination. A SIEM forwarder here, an APM agent there, a cloud log shipper somewhere else. Every new destination means re-onboarding every source, and every source upgrade ripples across the whole stack. Collection becomes the most fragile and expensive part of observability.
A control plane decouples collection from destinations. You collect once, then route, reduce, enrich, and tier the data on the way to wherever it needs to land. When the destination changes, the collection layer does not. That is the structural shift that makes migrations fast and keeps cost under control.
Cribl is one strong way to implement that control plane. It is not the only platform we work in, and it is never the headline of an environment. It is the engine we reach for when the right answer is a vendor-neutral pipeline that has to scale across many sources and many destinations at once.
80+
Source and destination integrations from a single pipeline
40-70%
Typical ingest reduction range when a control layer sits in front of a SIEM
1
Collection layer that outlives any single SIEM, APM, or lake
How does a Cribl-based control plane work?
Cribl Stream inspects every event in flight between source and destination. It filters noise, normalizes schemas, enriches records, and routes each event to the destination where it has the most value. High-signal data lands in your SIEM or APM. The rest goes to low-cost open-format storage, replay-ready when an investigation or audit needs it.
Because the pipeline holds full fidelity in open formats like Parquet and OCSF, a future destination swap becomes a routing-rule change instead of a host-level re-onboarding. That is the same outcome we deliver whether the control layer is Cribl, a native cloud pipeline, or a hybrid of both. The platform is a means, the architecture is the point.
- Collect once and route to many destinations from a single pipeline, so adding or changing a SIEM, APM, or lake does not mean re-onboarding every source.
- Reduce volume at the source by filtering, aggregating, and suppressing low-value events before they reach a per-GB destination.
- Normalize and enrich data in flight so detections and dashboards get clean, consistent records regardless of source format.
- Preserve full fidelity in open-format storage (Parquet, OCSF) for replay, keeping compliance and investigation depth without analytics-tier pricing.
- Run old and new destinations in parallel during a migration, then cut over by adjusting routing percentages rather than rebuilding collection.
How does Logmetry implement Cribl?
Cribl is deep platform work, not a templated install. Routing logic, schema normalization across dozens of source types, multi-tenant isolation, and replay architecture all have to fit your environment and your destinations. We architect that layer, build it in production, and validate it against your real traffic before any cutover.
We bring config-level depth across the platforms Cribl feeds, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Datadog included, so the control plane is designed around where your data actually needs to go, not around the pipeline for its own sake.
Frequently asked questions
What is a telemetry pipeline or control plane?
It is a vendor-neutral layer that sits between your data sources and destinations. It collects telemetry once, then filters, normalizes, enriches, and routes each event to the destination where it has value, while preserving full fidelity in low-cost open-format storage for replay.
How does a control layer make migrations faster?
Because collection is decoupled from destinations, you can write to an old and a new platform in parallel, prove the new one on real production data, then cut over by changing routing rules. The next migration after that is a routing change, not another full re-onboarding project.
Do we have to commit to one destination?
No. The whole point of a control plane is that you route to many destinations at once and change them without redoing collection. Cribl supports 80-plus integrations, so your SIEM, APM, and storage choices stay independent of how you collect.
Is Cribl replacing our SIEM?
No. Cribl is not a SIEM and we never position it as one. It sits in front of your SIEM and APM as a control layer, feeding them clean, high-signal data and sending the rest to cheap storage. Your SIEM keeps doing detection and investigation.
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