What happens when your data pipelines slow down, drop volume, or quietly change shape? Most monitoring tools won’t catch those shifts until it’s too late—when downstream systems are already impacted, dashboards are broken, or critical information is missing.
That’s why we’re excited to introduce Cribl Insights, to give you real-time visibility into every part of your Cribl environment: data flows, operations, processing, user activity, configuration changes, and more. The moment something changes, slows, or breaks, Insights alerts you right away—so you can get ahead of it before the issue becomes an outage.
Why We Built Cribl Insights
Our customers often tell us they’re juggling multiple external monitoring tools yet still struggling with limited visibility. Troubleshooting takes too long because issues are hard to detect and diagnosis, often due to limited history and missing correlations.
Partial drops go undetected. Most tools only alert when data stops entirely. But a drop from 100% to 10% can still mean terabytes lost.
Trends are hard to see. Spotting meaningful changes requires analyzing patterns over days or longer, at high speed.
Monitoring is scattered. Alert configs live across multiple products, requiring constant context switching.
No single view. Teams lack a centralized, at-a-glance dashboard to see what’s really happening with their data.
It’s also hard to quantify ROI because they lack clear metrics on usage, adoption, and impact. Cribl Insights closes these gaps. With centralized alerting, seven days of accelerated data, and a unified monitoring experience built directly into the Cribl platform, teams get faster troubleshooting, clearer trends, and actionable insights—all in one place.
What Does Cribl Insights Monitor?
Cribl Insights provides a single, unified view, letting you monitor the health and performance of your entire Cribl ecosystem with ease. At the system level, you get improved visibility into the operations of every Cribl product and service. On the data side, there are new visualizations of your data streams and integrations into your existing dashboards and alerting tools. A central console makes it easy to configure, report, and manage alerts, so you’re always the first to know when something changes. And with a unified audit trail, you can see exactly who did what, when, and where—keeping your operations transparent and secure.
Key Capabilities
Cribl Insights brings powerful, built-in monitoring capabilities that make managing your data pipelines effortless. Automatic instrumentation means it works right out of the box—no agents to deploy, no collectors to configure. Intelligent alerting goes beyond basic notifications, surfacing not just when something is wrong, but what’s likely causing it, almost like having a senior engineer watching your pipelines 24/7. And with enhanced metrics, Insights tracks more than just event or byte counts—it monitors latency, schema drift, and other subtle changes, turning vague “something’s wrong” signals into precise, actionable insights.
Real-World Use Cases
Here are a few ways teams can use Insights to solve real problems before they snowball:
Detecting Data Flow Failures
Data is being sent from CrowdStrike into Azure. Suddenly, the flow stops. Cribl Insights immediately spots the failure, sends an alert into Slack, and pinpoints the exact source—showing you that CrowdStrike is the system that broke. No guesswork, just fast answers.
Catching Unexpected Data Format Changes
Windows event logs are being ingested alongside Palo Alto Networks data, which Cribl parses into OCF format. One day, someone changes a setting on the Windows collector. Logs still arrive, but in a different format. Standard sensors don’t flag the issue—but Cribl Insights does, alerting you before downstream tools break.
How Cribl Insights Helps
With Cribl Insights, you get more than just raw metrics—you get actionable, context-rich visibility that helps your team stay proactive.
Better Visibility – Understand upstream and downstream activity, catch issues instantly, and never let data slip through the cracks.
Increased Productivity – Detect and resolve issues faster, streamlining operations and reducing downtime.
Storytelling & Context – Translate anomalies into clear insights your whole team can understand and act on.
Unified Control – Keep oversight of pipelines, user access, and configuration changes in one place.
Resource Optimization – See where capacity is over- or under-utilized, save on costs while making smarter scaling decisions.
Try Cribl Insights
Cribl Insights is free for all Enterprise Cloud customers, with up to 7 days (yes you read that right, SEVEN days! ONE WHOLE WEEK!) of retained visibility. Need more than 7 days? Talk to your friendly Cribl rep.
Be amongst the first to try Cribl Insights. Catch the Public Preview coming this November! With Cribl Insights, you’ll finally have built-in, end-to-end visibility that keeps your pipelines healthy, your team proactive, and your business flowing forward.
