Improving visibility and control for platform engineering with Cribl

July 1, 2026

Platform teams shouldn't have to spend their week rerouting data or digging through cold storage. But with telemetry sprawl, and Al-era data volumes, that's what they find themselves doing.

The challenge

VISIBILITY GETS HARDER AS MODERN PLATFORMS GROW

More telemetry= more visibility, right? You'd hope so, but no. The reality on the ground is that, often, it just creates more work.

Platform engineering, SRE, and DevOps teams are being asked to support more services, more telemetry, and more teams without slowing anyone down. Cloud, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and Al-driven workloads all add volume and complexity. The result is familiar: rising costs, slower investigations, and too many gaps between the data teams collect and the answers they need.

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The solution

SEE MORE WITHOUT LOSING CONTROL

Cribl is the Al Platform for Telemetry. It gives platform teams choice, control, and flexibility over how telemetry is collected, shaped, routed, stored, and searched.

It provides a centralized way to collect, route, optimize, govern, and analyze telemetry so more teams can access the data they need without creating more sprawl or risk. Teams see more, get answers faster, and rely less on the platform team as a manual go-between.

That means fewer "can you pull this for me?" requests and less CSV archaeology in the middle of an incident.

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"The goal is to optimize the data. Our priority is to make the data more valuable, mark it up, add more — it's not just about cost cutting, it's about getting more context to make better decisions."

Sudha Kanupuru
DevOps Engineering Manager, Autodesk

Benefits

LESS TICKET CHURN FOR PLATFORM TEAMS

  • Fewer manual routing changes

  • Less back-and-forth during onboarding

  • Less time babysitting telemetry pipelines

BETTER VISIBILITY FOR DEVELOPERS AND SRES

  • Keep high-value data hot in the tools teams already use

  • Tier just-in-case data to low-cost storage and search it in place when needed

  • Replay retained data without rehydrating everything into a premium platform

  • Use Al-powered search and investigation workflows to get to insight faster

MORE CHOICE, CONTROL, AND FLEXIBILITY

  • Route the same telemetry to multiple destinations when different teams need different views

  • Apply policy, masking, and enrichment once

  • Keep costs in check without cutting off access to answers

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Get it right, and you'll see fewer manual changes, fewer moments where the data is technically there but practically out of reach, and, let's face it, fewer tickets backing up in the queue.

That is how you get telemetry ready for the Al era and make the platform team's day job look a lot less like pipeline maintenance.

Platform Engineering - Telemetry Infrastructure

Cribl, the AI Platform for Telemetry, empowers enterprises to manage and analyze telemetry for both humans and agents with no lock-in, no data loss, no compromises. Trusted by organizations worldwide, including half of the Fortune 100, Cribl gives customers the choice, control, and flexibility to build what’s next.

We offer free training, certifications, and a free tier across our products. Our community Slack features Cribl engineers, partners, and customers who can answer your questions as you get started and continue to build and evolve. We also offer a variety of hands-on Sandboxes for those interested in how companies globally leverage our products for their data challenges.

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