3 categories · RankedCribl Stream
Cribl Stream is a telemetry pipeline from Cribl that sits between data sources and logging or analytics tools · cribl.io ↗
Leads at enterprise. Ranked 3 of 126 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
OpenTelemetry Collector is first at 40%.
OpenTelemetry Collector is first at 45%. 2 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Ranked first. Next is OpenTelemetry Collector at 28%.
Why models recommend it
“either a managed offering built on open standards (e.g., Bindplane on OTel Collector) or a commercial tool with strong UI and support (e.g., Cribl)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“Currently the dominant commercial leader... Choose Cribl if you have a large, noisy environment and want to cut observability bills”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“Cribl is frequently highlighted as a leader in the observability pipeline space... making it a strong fit for B2B companies”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Cribl is the top trending product in the G2 Observability Pipeline category and the user base is medium company focused.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
“its licensing and operational footprint are usually harder to justify for a small budget”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cribl Stream, over the 138 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 92 | 41 | Compare → | |
| 70 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 49 | 1 | View → | |
| 49 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 30 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 27 | 2 | View → | |
| 26 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 26 | 0 | View → | |
| 24 | 0 | View → | |
| 24 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Cribl Stream →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cribl Stream's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- IT and security teams
- Price stated
- Price based on GBs of data ingested.
- Free plan or trial
- Process up to 1TB/day, no license required.
- Integrations
- 150
- Customers named
- SA Power Networks, ServiceNow, Nutanix, Cox Automotive, Hughes Network Systems, Sally Beauty, Pegasystems, Cribl
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 124 of the 138 answers that named Cribl Stream and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
227 of the 331 domain citations in answers naming Cribl Stream came from a third party's page. Thirty-five were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,522 | 40 | 2026-09-27 | SIEM, Logs | |
| News or press | 96 | 3 | 2026-08-19 | SIEM, XDR | |
| Glossary or explainer | 81 | 3 | 2026-08-26 | Logs, SIEM | |
| Comparison | 34 | 1 | 2026-09-11 | SIEM, Logs | |
| Conference or event | 21 | 0 | 2025-09-29 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 14 | 0 | 2022-03-28 | ||
| Report or ebook | 13 | 0 | 2026-05-20 | ||
| Podcast or video | 13 | 0 | 2023-05-25 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | 0 | 2023-12-22 | ||
| Case study | 1 | 0 | 2025-01-01 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-27Cribl privacy model lost 20 heads and got 2 8x faster blog
- 2026-09-24Ai is compressing attack timelines cyber resilience needs proof blog
- 2026-09-23The people who help shape cribl celebrating some of our early employees blog
- 2026-09-23Cribl pricing guide blog
- 2026-09-22Top ai telemetry management tools blog
- 2026-09-18Criblcon 26 cant miss sessions if you want to be a superstar analyst blog
Events in person
- October 27, 2026it-sa Expo&Congress 2026NürnbergMesse, Nuremberg, Germany · exhibits
- October 28, 2026it-sa Expo&Congress 2026NürnbergMesse, Nuremberg, Germany · exhibits
- October 29, 2026it-sa Expo&Congress 2026NürnbergMesse, Nuremberg, Germany · exhibits
- August 5, 2026Introducing APEX: Adversarial Pattern Extraction and CorrelationMandalay Bay, Expo Hall, Pulse Stage 5, Las Vegas, US · spoke
- August 4, 2026 to August 6, 2026Black Hat USA 2026Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, US · exhibited
- August 3, 2026House of SOC happy hour with Fig Security & CriblKUMI at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, US · hosted
- July 7, 2026Cribl Partner Day Munich 2026Motorworld Munich, Munich · hosted
- March 24, 2026Toasts to TelemetryCribl HQ - 4th Street, San Francisco, US · hosted
- March 24, 2026Why High-Quality IT and Security Data is the Fuel For Agentic AIMoscone North Expo Briefing Center, San Francisco, US · spoke
- March 23, 2026 to March 26, 2026RSAC 2026Moscone Center, San Francisco, US · exhibited
- March 23, 2026Gigamon Happy HourWaterbar Restaurant | 399 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, US · hosted
- December 3, 2025Customer Appreciation ReceptionLa Cave, Wynn Las Vegas, Las Vegas, US · hosted
- December 3, 2025How Sophos modernizes security data at scale with Cribl and AWSMGM, Grand 116, Las Vegas, US · spoke
- December 1, 2025 to December 5, 2025AWS re:Invent 2025The Venetian, Las Vegas, US · exhibited
As the event pages on cribl.io state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cribl.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name SIEM (39); 9 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.