Cribl Expands Its Data Engine Platform To Meet Demands Of Agentic AI

“The world’s telemetry infrastructure wasn’t built for agents,” says Cribl CEO Clint Sharp.

(Cribl CEO and co-founder Clint Sharp)

Cribl announced Tuesday added AI capabilities to its data engine platform. The new features are designed to meet the incredible telemetry demands of agentic AI.

The technology offered by Cribl can be part of an organization’s security posture, Cribl CISO Myke Lyons explained in an interview last year with MES Computing.

“Cribl is actually a technology that helps IT and security organizations deal with their logging data, which is a constant, growing quantity of data that has varying levels of value to businesses. And we are the data pipeline for IT and security, so effectively we can help companies deal with their log data. We send it to various locations,” Lyons said at the time.

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With agentic AI, the telemetry data needs of the average organization are anticipated to skyrocket.

“Today, IT and security teams already see telemetry data growth outpace budgets and resources. To avoid detonating their budgets, teams are forced to leave data on the cutting room floor, creating critical blind spots that hamper efficiency and security. The challenge is further complicated with the adoption of agentic AI, which generates workloads of significantly larger magnitudes. Traditional telemetry infrastructures are already at their breaking point, and will collapse under the weight of agentic AI,” Cribl stated in a news release.

The new features include:

• Cribl Notebooks – This feature helps IT teams streamline investigations while digging through log files and telemetry. Cribl Notebooks offers AI-guided insight by “integrating code, charts, text, and annotations,” according to the company. The goal is to help organizations quickly parse through telemetry data to quickly resolve issues.

• BYOAI (Bring Your Own AI) - The Cribl platform allows organizations “to leverage their preferred AI models to ensure data security and meet compliance requirements,” the company said in a news release.

“Similarly, AI will change how we all work. Agents, autonomous systems that analyze, reason, act, and learn across your digital environment, will change jobs and workflows for all of us. Cribl is on a mission to unlock the value of all of your data, specifically targeted at our core persona of IT and Security professionals,” Cribl CEO and co-founder Clint Sharp, wrote in a blog post.

“But here’s the catch: the world’s telemetry infrastructure wasn’t built for agents,” Sharp added.

When IT queries any logging or telemetry data, “that burns compute,” Sharp also said.

This challenge is heightened with AI agents. According to Sharp: “The new capabilities announced at CriblCon directly solves this challenge, enabling organizations to ensure their telemetry infrastructure is AI-ready. Equipped with these capabilities, organizations can drive productivity now and in the future, all with the choice, control, and flexibility required as data strategies evolve.”