FACT: Data is growing faster than budgets. Without clear visibility into usage and spend, organizations struggle to plan ahead, accurately predict resource allocation, and identify ROI. What does this lead to? Data gets treated as a cost center rather than a strategic asset.
As data volumes explode and cloud architectures evolve, visibility into usage and spend is essential, not only for finance teams but also for engineering and business leaders. Cribl’s FinOps Center was designed to close that gap by connecting data usage to business outcomes and giving organizations greater clarity and control over their investments in their data. We’re excited to announce three new features that make it even easier for teams to forecast, track, and analyze spend with confidence. With these capabilities, teams can make more informed decisions while keeping data management operations predictable, accountable, and cost-efficient.
Predictive Spend Analytics: Forecast With Confidence
Forecasting spend on your data has traditionally meant sifting through historical records and piecing together context from multiple systems – a slow and error-prone process that leaves little room for proactive planning.
FinOps Center’s new credit forecasting leverages historical usage patterns to forecast future spend with actionable predictions. Engineering and Finance now share a clear view of what’s ahead, with the confidence to budget, allocate resources, plan growth initiatives, and decide where investments will have the greatest impact.
Imagine an engineering team gearing up to build a new service that is projected to increase traffic in your network. In addition to technical readiness, organizations must determine if the budget has room for additional telemetry bandwidth. FinOps' new credit forecasting analyzes your current usage patterns to predict where your credit consumption will land three months out. Factor in your own volume estimates from your new project, and you can plan ahead with confidence and cut down on those surprise bills.
Usage by Workspaces: Clarity Across Teams and Tenants
With visibility into usage broken out by individual Workspaces, admins can easily track activity across different teams, subsidiaries, or customers. Finance and Engineering gain a shared view into each Workspace’s impact, while leaders get the insight they need to drive accountability and optimize allocations.
Consider a global organization, for example, that wants visibility into how each of its regional subsidiaries consume resources. Workspace-level insights provide a side-by-side view of usage and patterns, enabling leaders to identify which subsidiaries are operating most efficiently, share best practices, and standardize approaches across the business.
For service providers, the same visibility makes it easier to show clients exactly how they’re consuming resources. Whether simplifying chargebacks or making reporting more transparent, Workspace clarity strengthens trust and creates opportunities for more strategic, data-driven conversations with customers.
Detailed Product Tab Analysis: Drill Into the Details
Not all data sources or pipelines deliver the same value, and without granular insight, it’s difficult to know where optimization is needed and where it could have the greatest impact. Product-specific tabs in FinOps Center give a dedicated view of consumption and spend for each Cribl product used. By tracking usage trends over time at a detailed level, teams can uncover inefficiencies that may be hidden in day-to-day operations, determine which tools drive the highest returns, and align investments with the areas that create the most impact.
With visibility into adoption trends and granular analytics, teams can move beyond reactive fixes and make smarter investments that drive long-term success. Take a financial services firm, for example, that is facing steadily rising storage costs and has noticed an unusual spike in consumption. By investigating further in the Cribl Stream tab, they can identify areas for optimization and uncover potential cost savings.
Why It Matters
These new capabilities take FinOps Center’s mission to the next level: giving organizations financial clarity and control over their data and spend. With predictive insights, workspace-level transparency, and product-specific detail, FinOps Center arms Cribl customers and partners with the tools they need to manage tradeoffs, optimize spend, and plan with confidence. The payoff? A cloud data journey that’s more predictable, more accountable, and way more cost-efficient.
Check out FinOps Center by contacting your account team for more information, or try Cribl.Cloud for free today!
