Cribl

Cribl is a leading data infrastructure company that provides an enterprise-grade platform for managing telemetry data, including logs, metrics, and traces. Founded in 2018 by industry veterans from Splunk, the company addresses the challenges of exploding data volumes and vendor lock-in by offering a vendor-agnostic observability pipeline. Their platform empowers IT and security teams to parse, enrich, route, and optimize data, ensuring that organizations maintain visibility while effectively managing costs and infrastructure complexity. At the core of Cribl's offerings is a suite of products designed to create an open data architecture, including Cribl Stream, Cribl Edge, and Cribl Search. By enabling 'search-in-place' capabilities and supporting non-proprietary storage formats, Cribl allows businesses to retain control over their data across diverse cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and GCP. With a strong focus on innovation, the company has recently expanded its capabilities into agentic AI and security operations, solidifying its position as a critical player in the modern data observability landscape.

To bridge the gap between AI ambition and infrastructure reality by providing an AI platform for telemetry that gives customers choice, control, and flexibility with no lock-in, no data loss, and no compromises.

• Ranked #1 on the Forbes list of America's Best Startup Employers in 2024
• Achieved FedRAMP Moderate Authority to Operate (ATO)
• Surpassed $300 million in Annual Recurring Revenue as of 2025
• Successfully acquired CardinalOps to expand into security operations
• Valued at $3.5 billion following a $319 million Series E round in 2024

Sources

• Cribl Official Website
• Cribl About Us Page
• Forbes Company Profile
• Wikipedia