Cribl Edge^™

Your not-so-secret agent for vendor-neutral, unified collection.

In a nutshell

Dispatch fleets of agents for central intelligence

Cribl Edge is a vendor-neutral, intelligent agent designed for the variety and scale of today’s modern architectures. With a unified telemetry collection system, you can have hundreds of thousands of agents at your fingertips to automatically discover and collect data from your Windows, Linux, macOS, and Kubernetes environments. Featuring a rich UI, centralized fleet management, and seamless upgrades, it’s time to transform your agent management.

Solution brief

Benefits

Livin' on the (Cribl) Edge

The telemetry collection tools that got you to 2025 aren’t going to get you to 2034. Finally, hyper-scale agent management is here!

Consolidate your collection tools

No need for that hodgepodge of vendor-specific legacy agents and piecemeal forwarders.

Centralize and unify agent management

Say goodbye to the hassle of individual, manual upgrades and configurations —now, you can complete them in just a few clicks.

Tackle sprawling environments

Get a handle of your distributed infrastructure with the ability to efficiently deploy and monitor thousands of nodes in days, not weeks.

Give control back to your team

Immediately access all of your telemetry data from any Windows, Linux, macOS, or Kubernetes environments directly - without waiting on permissions or changes from other teams.

Explore and investigate effortlessly

Search and teleport into nodes with an interactive experience to troubleshoot and gain unprecedented visibility at the edge.

Customer Success

Cribl Edge for the win

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We have Cribl Edge installed on our Kubernetes nodes to gather logs and metrics. It’s a lot easier than deploying the Splunk forwarder. It deploys in five minutes, and then it’s done.

Joris VuffrayHead of Network & System Management, Swissloss

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Features

Why Cribl Edge?

More grow, less groan

Easily deploy and manage up to 250,000 nodes with Edge’s built-in fleet management, reducing operational overhead.
Centrally configure, monitor, and upgrade entire fleets in minutes and without relying on the endpoint owner.
Keep costs of growing data volumes down by interrogating data at the source, before deciding to send it a central location.

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Capabilities

Feature highlights

Intelligent

Raise your intelligence quotient to the top of the stack

Efficiently gather and auto-discover log data at its source. Automatically identify and collect logs and metrics from endpoints like servers, containers, or applications.

Centralized Fleet Management

Easily monitor and manage thousands of edge nodes

Fleet management empowers you to monitor, manage, and configure thousands of agents from a single, centralized console. Enjoy visual configuration authoring and version control, all designed to scale effortlessly.

Agnostic

Choose any host, source, or destination. It’s up to you.

Deploy on your platform of choice and collect data from any Linux, macOS, Windows, or container system. Forward only the data you need to your destinations of your choice.

Teleporting

One click access to view host information

Welcome to the future! Teleport into a node to directly explore metric and log data, either collected via the autodiscovery function or manual configuration of any data of interest. Then use the data to perform root-cause analysis or troubleshoot.

Kubernetes Observability

DevOps and SREs Rejoice!

Eliminate the hassle of configuring FluentBit/Fluentd. With pre-packaged Helm charts, Cribl Edge deploys effortlessly, giving you greater visibility into your Kubernetes environments."

Window into Windows

Cribl Edge and Windows: The Perfect Pair for Observability

Cribl Edge was built with Windows environments in mind, offering an easy-to-use experience and native integrations for exploring and collecting Windows events, logs, and metrics.

Differentiators

Key differentiators of Cribl Edge

Open

Agnostic data collection
A vendor-neutral agent that unifies collection across your ecosystem for no more juggling vendor-specific collectors or forwarders.

Focused

Purpose-built for IT and Security teams
Centrally manage and control telemetry at the edge with modern, efficient agent management built for your needs.

Performant

Supports unprecedented scale
Collect data from hundreds of thousands of endpoints while minimizing overhead and downtime during upgrades.

Versatile

Adapts to your evolving environment
Deploy in Windows, Linux, macOS, Docker, or Kubernetes environments with a flexible, intelligent agent that future-proofs your data collection strategy.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Replacement

A Universal Forwarder Alternative

Thinking about migrating away from your SIEM? Want more control by decoupling data collection from analysis? Or maybe you're simply looking to optimize operational efficiency? Cribl Edge is your modern agent for smarter file monitoring, faster upgrades, and easier configurations—all managed through an intuitive GUI.

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Integrations

A unified data engine

Search

Real-time investigation

Unlock the innovative capability to receive and execute searches directly on endpoints, allowing you to analyze edge data in place - no data migration needed! Teams can set up real-time altering with these searches to improve MTTR.

Search search baby!

Stream

Time for some heavy lifting

Easily collect host data and perform lightweight processing with Cribl Edge using unused capacity on endpoints, then effortlessly send data to Stream for heavier processing. Plus, data ingestion in Cribl is only billed once so it won’t be billed again in Stream.

Stream on

Lake

Storage simplified

Directly send data from Cribl Edge to Lake to be securely stored in open formats and quickly make endpoint data easily accessible, usable, and valuable.

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