As IT organizations seek observability into their operations, they deploy more systems for logging and monitoring, creating a firehose of data that must be managed. Along with that, costs spiral out of control.

That’s the problem San Francisco-based Cribl is tackling. Its LogStream platform creates what it calls an observability pipeline that can ingest machine data from any source; parse, restructure, and enrich data in flight; then route that data to an appropriate destination.