The speaker, Davis Sinapati, is a manager for monitoring and logging at a financial services provider solution that offers services to small banks and credit unions. He owns the enterprise monitoring and logging platform for his organization.
His organization has been using Cribl since the end of 2022. The main use case for Cribl is to enhance the way they collect data and bring logs from different sources.
Core features of Cribl that the speaker highlights:
Collecting data from different sources.
The versatile and easy way to integrate with multiple sources and route to multiple destinations.
The ability to adjust, transform, or apply any type of "retraction on the fly".
An easy-to-use user interface (UI).
Cribl has helped the organization by:
Fast-tracking proof-of-concepts (POCs) with multiple tools in areas like centralized log aggregation and observability.
Saving time by avoiding the need to "reinvent the wheel again and again for each solution".
Allowing them to control how much data goes in, providing an "eagle's eye view" of the data they are sending.
Saving over $200,000 in licensing by enriching, transforming, and "massaging the data more efficiently" to drop unneeded information from their log streams.
Enabling them to offload firewalls and other high-volume log generators, like most networking devices, from their existing log aggregation tool.
Sending this data to a low-cost storage solution, which provided a higher retention period that "more than met" their needs.
Allowing them to search the data in the low-cost storage directly using Cribl's search feature.
Giving the networking and security teams a single "painted glass view" using only the Cribl search instead of having to switch between multiple tools.