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The Quixotic Expedition into the Vastness of Edge Logs, Part 1: Analyzing Numerous Cribl Edge Nodes with Cribl Search

Cribl Search is a powerful tool that is designed to enhance your data search efficiency, irrespective of the location of your data. This blog will explore how this tool seamlessly integrates with numerous Cribl Edge Nodes in real time, simplifying the process of discovery and troubleshooting. An integral part of Cribl Search is the “teleport” feature, which enables users to access specific Edge Nodes for in-depth analysis, simply by clicking on a host field.

Are Your Data Pipelines Up to Commercial Standards?

In the data business, we often refer to the series of steps or processes used to collect, transform, and analyze data as “pipelines.” As a data scientist, I find this analogy fitting, as my concerns around data closely mirror those most people have with water: Where is it coming from? What’s in it? How can we optimize its quality, quantity, and pressure for its intended use? And, crucially, is it leaking anywhere?

The Ripple Effect of Meta's $1.3 Billion GDPR Fine for Businesses That Handle Data

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been fined a record €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) by the European Union for violating its data privacy laws. The fine was issued by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, which is Meta’s lead regulator in the EU, and is the largest ever levied under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect in 2018.

A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place

With Cribl Stream, our customers are experiencing choice and control over their data that would have been a pipe dream (or maybe I should say a pipeline dream) before. The ability to get the right data to the right destination in the right format is extremely powerful. Stream can optimize the data being sent to expensive destinations; you can remove unnecessary or redundant fields, drop unnecessary events, or even pull valuable metrics from verbose logs. Optimizing your data has a few benefits.

Left, Right, Center: A 3 Step Dance to Success with Building Data Pipelines

Remember the first time you were at a wedding, or a party and you learned about dances like The Electric Slide? You know, those dances with a clear structure and steps to follow, which were a huge help to someone who was slightly challenged on the dance floor, like me? All you had to do was learn a few simple steps, and you could hang with even the best dancers.

Cribl Stream Production Deployment Guide

Deploying new tools can be challenging for Operations and Security data teams. However, we recently released a reference architecture for Cribl Stream to streamline this process and reduce trial and error. During a live discussion, Cribl's Ed Bailey and Eugene Katz will share a real-life example of how a customer would start the deployment planning process using real-world examples. We will start with requirements and finish with a diagram to help guide a production deployment.

Goats on the Road: RSA 2023 Recap

Dr. Anton Chuvakin, a noted warrior/poet/security cybersecurity expert, sums up my thoughts about RSAC 2023 marketing messaging perfectly with this post on Twitter. For those who are new to the vendor hall, the amount of just bad marketing can be overwhelming and confusing. . There’s only one chance to get your message across to your prospects, so make it short and sweet. Anton’s guess of “zero click zero trust” is closer than you think to the truth.

There's Nuggets in Them Buckets: How Cribl Search Can Mine Your Observability Lake

Enterprises have enough data, in fact, they are overwhelmed with it, but finding the nuggets of value amongst the data ‘noise’ is not all that simple. It is bucket’d, blob’d, and bestrewn across the enterprise infrastructure in clouds, filesystems, and hosts machines. It’s logs, metrics, traces, config files, and more, but as Jimmy Buffett says, “we’ve all got ’em, we all want ’em, but what do we do with ’em”.

Cribl Earns a Spot on the 5th Annual Enterprise Tech 30 List!

Cribl has been named to the 5th annual Enterprise Tech 30 (ET30) – a definitive list of the most promising, private enterprise tech companies. This is our first time on the ET30 list, ranking number four on the list of ten companies in the late stage category. The recognition highlights the value our innovative products deliver to our customers and partners as we work together to unlock the value of all observability data.