Nate Wood, a senior security engineer in the healthcare industry with over 10,000 employees, has worked in information security for over 10 years. He has been using Cribl for a few months, since July 2025.
Key points about his use of Cribl:
Use Cases: Security drives his use cases for Cribl, which involve ingesting data using Cribl Edge and then processing it using Cribl Stream to reduce the volume of data collected for use in other platforms
Cribl Edge: He likes the ease of management and configuration of Cribl Edge. It is very easy to make configuration changes or update the agent across the many thousands of Cribl Edge nodes deployed. The easier-to-use features help reduce the amount of people needed to manage the product.
Cribl Stream: Reducing data volume provides a financial benefit by allowing them to pay less for other products that use the data further down the data path. Cribl is good at providing solutions that will compress the data while retaining its usability or split the data to send a reduced form to the end destination while retaining the original form.
Cribl Cloud: The deployed Cribl Cloud allows for easy scaling to meet the needs of onboarding tens of thousands of Cribl Edge devices in a single day in some cases.
Log Reduction: He is able to reduce the size and reformat logs, specifically for firewalls, so they are better used downstream. The biggest return on investment is likely the log reduction capabilities while retaining the essential information. A reduction of greater than 80% is achievable in some cases, which adds up quickly across thousands of endpoints.
Workflow Influence: Cribl has influenced the data processing workflow by allowing the organization to be platform agnostic. Separating data into different destinations is quite easy. The Cribl UI is generally very intuitive for managing log processing and configurations.
Finally, if he could play any video game related to goats, it would be Goat Simulator 3, a game his kids love.