Every operations leader knows the grind of rewriting brittle scripts, debugging YAML misfires, and juggling environments that just don’t match. Managing telemetry pipelines the old way feels like a full-time job… one that’s impossible to scale.
Cribl as Code rewrites that story. It brings DevOps-grade automation to the last piece of your stack that hasn’t caught up: your telemetry pipelines. With programmatic control through REST APIs, Terraform, or SDKs in Python, Go, and TypeScript, teams can automate onboarding, transform data on demand, and manage environments as confidently as they do infrastructure.
It’s time to stop clicking your way through configurations and start coding your way to consistency.
The Problem With ClickOps and Configuration Drift
To many teams, telemetry feels like an endless cycle of patching, adjusting, and hoping. You fix one brittle script, only to break another. You onboard a new source, and ten others fall out of sync.
The reality is this: Manual configuration doesn’t scale when data grows, sources multiply, and compliance rules tighten.
Security and IT teams lose hours each week rewriting YAML or JSON to onboard or transform new data.
Fragmented, proprietary UIs prevent cross-team review or version control.
Compliance and audit needs turn every change into a risk.
When your data workflows are reactive instead of reproducible, pipeline management becomes guesswork.
Introducing Cribl as Code
Cribl as Code is a programmatic framework for managing telemetry at scale, bringing Infrastructure as Code discipline to your data pipelines. Instead of managing Routes, Pipelines, and Sources by hand, teams can:
Automate onboarding and maintenance using REST APIs or Terraform templates.
Integrate data workflows directly into CI/CD or GitOps.
Standardize every configuration to ensure it’s consistent, auditable, and version-controlled.
By bringing Infrastructure as Code principles to your telemetry, Cribl as Code eliminates the last island of manual toil in your environment.
Cribl as Code empowers organizations to scale telemetry management across large, complex environments, whether supporting tens of fleets or hundreds of engineering teams. It accelerates deployment velocity by embedding telemetry configurations directly into developer pipelines, enabling hands-free updates controlled via code. Above all, it empowers developer and observability teams alike to own their telemetry workflows with precision, transparency, and governance, making pipeline management a seamless extension of software delivery.
The Three Pillars: Scale Effortlessly, Accelerate Automation, and Empower Devs
Scale: Manage Telemetry Across Large Fleets and Teams
Cribl as Code scales effortlessly to support large organizations with multiple teams and fleets. Whether you’re deploying tons of Cribl instances across network zones or managing full telemetry lifecycles for hundreds of engineers, the framework centralizes control while distributing ownership.
Accelerate Automation Within Developer Pipelines
By integrating telemetry management into existing CI/CD and GitOps workflows, Cribl as Code speeds up onboarding, deployment, and change management. Teams embed telemetry updates directly into feature branches, enabling automated validation, rollbacks, and production deployments with confidence.
Empower Developer and Observability Teams
Cribl as Code gives developers and SREs the autonomy to manage telemetry as code, backed by audit trails and version control. This governance model balances control and openness, allowing junior engineers and contributors to make changes safely under code review, reducing bottlenecks and improving collaboration.
Built on Choice, Control, and Flexibility
Modern telemetry operations demand speed and precision across complex environments. Cribl as Code delivers by offering three foundational benefits:
Where Cribl as Code shines: Use cases that matter
Automate onboarding at scale. Onboard hundreds of data sources like AWS, cloud containers, and Microsoft endpoints with version-controlled configurations that remain consistent across teams.
Deliver hands-free change management. Push updates globally, revert bad commits instantly, and eliminate drift across multi-cloud or multi-org infrastructures.
Integrate telemetry pipelines with CI/CD. Treat your telemetry pipelines like code, complete with pull requests, automated checks, and rollbacks.
Adapt instantly to new compliance rules. Change masking, filtering, or retention policies in minutes without manual firefighting.
Every one of these use cases represents hours of manual effort reduced to seconds, and pipelines that can evolve, not just survive.
For MSPs and MSSPs, Cribl as Code standardizes telemetry management across tenants, so services providers can deliver consistent onboarding, compliance enforcement, and reporting at scale.
Across every environment, from single teams to global service providers, Cribl as Code delivers reliability through repeatable automation.
Why Cribl as Code Is Different
Cribl as Code isn’t just built for automation, it’s engineered to embody what makes Cribl different:
Open: Cribl as Code embraces open standards and languages. Use Python, Go, TypeScript, Terraform… whatever fits your stack. Bring your own tools, connect your own data, and avoid lock-in.
Versatile: Whether you’re running 10 nodes or 1,283, in the cloud or repatriating to on-prem, Cribl as Code adapts to your topology. It fits CI/CD-driven developer pipelines just as easily as weekly production change reviews, with APIs and SDKs that flex as your workflow changes.
Focused: Declarative configs and clear APIs keep teams laser-focused on delivering value. No need to wrestle with monolithic UIs or navigate multiple point tools. Cribl as Code lets you zero in on what matters: clean, governed, repeatable pipelines.
Performant: At scale, speed and reliability are non-negotiable. With environment-wide rollouts, instant rollbacks, and efficient job execution, Cribl as Code keeps your telemetry pipelines humming, no matter how demanding your observability needs.
Why It Matters Now
Telemetry volume is exploding, but tooling discipline hasn’t kept pace. The shift toward automation-first, compliance-minded operations means teams can’t afford brittle processes anymore.
Cribl as Code brings developer-level control and repeatable automation to every corner of your data ecosystem. As data volumes surge and compliance rules evolve, Cribl as Code ensures pipelines remain auditable, repeatable, and version-controlled, so teams move fast without losing governance. That way, observability becomes as composable and auditable as your infrastructure.
With Cribl as Code, organizations scale telemetry operations across sprawling fleets and large engineering teams, accelerate delivery by embedding telemetry into every CI/CD pipeline, and empower contributors at every level, without sacrificing the control and auditability that today’s security and compliance standards demand. Your pipelines become programmable, resilient, and ready for whatever comes next.
Getting Started
Cribl as Code is built for the builders: the platform engineers, SREs, and security operators who want to manage telemetry with the same precision they bring to infrastructure.
Ready to start coding your telemetry pipelines? Follow the Cribl as Code Quickstart to deploy your first configuration, or join our Community to connect with other engineers and operators trying it out.
With Cribl as Code, you can operate your telemetry pipelines at the speed of code, not clicks.
