Cribl

Cribl is an American enterprise software company that builds what it calls the AI Platform for Telemetry. Founded in 2017 by Clint Sharp, Dritan Bitincka, and Ledion Bitincka, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and sells primarily to IT operations, site reliability engineering (SRE), and security teams at large enterprises. Its core proposition is vendor-agnostic telemetry infrastructure: instead of forcing customers to conform to rigid, vendor-defined data pipelines, Cribl gives them choice, control, and flexibility over how machine data is collected, shaped, routed, stored, and searched. The company's product family spans several capabilities. Cribl Stream is a data pipeline and routing engine that lets organizations observe, transform, and direct telemetry to the destinations of their choice. Cribl Edge is a vendor-neutral, intelligent agent for endpoint and infrastructure telemetry collection, designed to manage fleets of hundreds of thousands of agents across Windows, Linux, macOS, and Kubernetes environments from a single UI. Cribl Search enables federated, in-place search across data wherever it lives, so teams can investigate without first centralizing everything. Cribl Lake provides low-cost storage for "just-in-case" data, and the platform also supports building custom apps on top of the telemetry foundation. Cribl positions itself against the cost and lock-in of traditional log management and SIEM vendors. Its messaging emphasizes that telemetry data is growing rapidly while budgets stay flat, and that AI-driven, high-frequency machine queries are straining platforms built for human search. Cribl's answer is to decouple data collection and storage from analytics, tier data to cheaper storage, and make every signal searchable in place. The company reports more than 1,400 customers, including half of the Fortune 100, over $300 million in annual recurring revenue, and more than 1,000 employees. It remains privately held and venture-backed.

Cribl was founded in 2017 by Clint Sharp, Dritan Bitincka, and Ledion Bitincka. The founding team came out of the observability and machine-data world and set out to solve a problem they saw repeatedly at large enterprises: telemetry data was exploding in volume and variety, but the tools available to manage and search it were rigid, expensive, and siloed. IT and security teams were forced to choose between visibility and cost, and every investigation meant jumping between fragmented systems and accepting more vendor lock-in. The company's first product, Cribl Stream, attacked the problem at the pipeline level. It gave customers a better way to route and shape telemetry, so they could keep more data, send it to the right places, and stay in control of their data strategy rather than ceding it to whichever analytics or SIEM vendor received the data. This "observability pipeline" category proved attractive to enterprises that were already spending heavily on log management and security analytics and wanted to reduce cost and lock-in without losing data. Over time Cribl expanded from routing into a broader telemetry platform. Cribl Edge extended the company's reach to the endpoint, providing a vendor-neutral agent for collecting telemetry from Windows, Linux, macOS, and Kubernetes environments and managing large fleets from a central UI. Cribl Search added federated, in-place search so teams could investigate data wherever it lived, without first centralizing it. Cribl Lake added low-cost storage for data that organizations want to retain "just in case." The platform also added the ability to build custom apps on top of the telemetry foundation, aimed at industry- and team-specific workflows. As AI became a dominant theme in enterprise IT, Cribl repositioned its platform as "the AI Platform for Telemetry." The company argues that humans and AI agents both need clean, reliable data, and that telemetry is the signal for practitioners, the fuel for agents, and the foundation for AI-driven investigations. Its messaging emphasizes that telemetry data is growing at roughly 30% CAGR while budgets stay flat, and that AI introduces a surge of high-frequency, machine-driven queries that traditional platforms built for human searches cannot handle. Cribl has grown into a significant private enterprise software company. According to its own corporate overview, it serves more than 1,400 customers, including half of the Fortune 100, has surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue, and employs more than 1,000 people. It remains privately held and venture-backed, and it competes in the observability, log management, and security analytics markets against both established vendors and other data-pipeline specialists.

• 2017

  Cribl founded by Clint Sharp, Dritan Bitincka, and Ledion Bitincka.

• Cribl Stream launched as the company's observability pipeline product for routing and shaping telemetry.

• Cribl Edge introduced as a vendor-neutral agent for endpoint and infrastructure telemetry collection.

• Cribl Search added federated, in-place search across distributed data.

• Cribl Lake added low-cost storage for retained telemetry data.

• Cribl repositioned its platform as the AI Platform for Telemetry.

Vendor-agnostic telemetry infrastructure for the AI era, offering choice, control, and flexibility with no lock-in, no data loss, and no compromises.

• Cribl Stream

  Observability pipeline for collecting, transforming, and routing telemetry data to chosen destinations.

• Cribl Edge

  Vendor-neutral intelligent agent for endpoint and infrastructure telemetry collection across Windows, Linux, macOS, and Kubernetes, with centralized fleet management.

• Cribl Search

  Federated, in-place search that lets teams investigate data wherever it lives without centralizing it first.

• Cribl Lake

  Low-cost storage tier for retaining telemetry data that organizations want to keep available.

• Cribl Apps

  Capability to build custom apps on the telemetry foundation for industry- and team-specific workflows.

• 2021.08.25

  Reported2021.08.25

  Cribl announces $200 million Series C funding[6]Cribl 宣布获得 2 亿美元 C 轮融资prnewswire.com

  Cribl announced that it raised $200 million in Series C funding, led by Greylock and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from new and existing investors.

• 2021.06.02

  Reported2021.06.02

  Cribl announces general availability of LogStream Cloud[7]Cribl 宣布 LogStream Cloud 正式上市prnewswire.com

  Cribl announced the general availability of LogStream Cloud, a software-as-a-service consumption option for LogStream.

• 2021.06.02

  Reported2021.06.02

  Cribl unveils LogStream 3.0[7]Cribl 宣布 LogStream Cloud 正式上市prnewswire.com

  Cribl unveiled LogStream 3.0, the latest version of its flagship observability pipeline solution, and introduced the LogStream Packs framework.

• 2020.10.15

  Reported2020.10.15

  Cribl introduces LogStream[8]Cribl推出LogStreamprnewswire.com

  Cribl introduced LogStream, an observability solution for machine data, and said it was available in limited beta as a SaaS solution, on-premises application, or container-based offering.

Read more

1. 1The AI Platform for Telemetry | Criblcribl.io
2. 2Cribl Product Overview | Criblcribl.io
3. 3About Cribl | Criblcribl.io
4. 4Cribl Edge - Your Vendor-Neutral Endpoint Telemetry | Criblcribl.io
5. 5Criblwikidata.org
6. 6Cribl 宣布获得 2 亿美元 C 轮融资prnewswire.com
7. 7Cribl 宣布 LogStream Cloud 正式上市prnewswire.com
8. 8Cribl推出LogStreamprnewswire.com