Cribl Activation
Strategic
Deploy Cribl. Deliver Three Use Cases. Expand Capability with Structured Execution.
What's Included
- Architecture design & dependency planning
- Use Case Planning Workshop
- Cribl deployment (Leader + Worker Groups)
- 3 production-ready use cases
- Source & destination configuration
- Architecture + As-Built documentation
- Knowledge transfer throughout
Why Cribl Expansions Stall
As organizations move beyond initial deployment, complexity increases, and without a structured approach, expansion introduces inefficiency and rework.
Multiple use cases require coordinated implementation. Without structure, teams build in parallel and introduce conflicts and rework.
Data onboarding, routing, and reduction must scale together. Ad-hoc expansion creates coverage gaps and inconsistent pipeline behavior.
Early architecture choices made without downstream visibility compound over time, forcing costly redesigns as use case count grows.
Without a defined engagement model, teams build inconsistently across use cases, creating technical debt that slows future expansion.
What We Deliver
A structured activation program delivered in a defined sequence: base scope plus three customer-selected use cases.
Base Activation Scope
- Architecture Design Dependency planning, sizing, and deployment approach tailored to your environment and use case volume.
- Use Case Planning Workshop Define and prioritize the three use cases to be implemented during the engagement.
- Cribl Deployment Full deployment of Leader and Worker Groups per defined architecture.
- Source & Destination Configuration Connect your data sources and configure destination routing and filtering across all three use cases.
- Deployment Validation End-to-end testing to confirm data flows correctly across all pipelines before production cutover.
- Documentation Architecture doc and As-Built record delivered at engagement close.
Customer-Selected Use Cases
You choose three from the list below. Each is implemented and validated during the activation.
- Data Onboarding: Bring new sources into Cribl and route them to a destination, converting formats to match what the destination expects (up to five sources).
- Advanced Data Onboarding: Onboard sources that need custom REST collectors or advanced configuration (up to two sources).
- Data Archiving: Configure and test archiving beyond Cribl Lake, including S3 partitioning strategy and Log Replay validation.
- Data Reduction: Build pipelines that cut data volume or event size before it reaches your destination (up to five sources).
- Data Routing: Deliver full or filtered data streams to two or more destinations (up to 25 sources).
- Logs to Metrics: Convert event log data into metrics with purpose-built pipelines (up to two sources).
- Edge Deployment: Plan and configure Cribl Edge nodes for data collection (up to three fleets).
- Data Enrichment: Build pipelines that add enrichment context to your data sources (up to three sources).
- Cribl Search: Implement and adopt Cribl Search use cases, with hands-on training against your own data.
- Container Deployment (Enterprise tier only): Deploy Stream in a containerized environment, with container-specific support included.
Want embedded support to continue after activation? The Strategic Bundle pairs this activation with six months of Resident Services.
How We Work Together
Remote, structured, and consultant-led: every session has a defined agenda and a clear output.
~30 Guided Sessions
Structured working sessions with defined agendas. No open-ended calls. Every session moves the deployment forward across three use cases.
3-Month Window
Delivered over a 3-month activation window, giving your team the time to absorb and validate each phase before moving ahead.
Remote Delivery
Delivered remotely by a Cribl-certified consultant. No travel overhead. Full engagement from day one.
Active Participation Required
This is a collaborative engagement. Your team's involvement is essential: we build alongside you, not for you.
VAR Partnership Model
Delivered in partnership with VARs, with nth degree providing certified execution capacity behind the engagement.
Fixed Scope
This is a fixed-scope program aligned to three defined use cases. Defined outcomes. Predictable delivery. No scope creep.
What You Walk Away With
Deployed Cribl Environment
Three Production-Ready Use Cases
Validated Data Routing & Filtering
Architecture + As-Built Docs
Knowledge Transfer Throughout
🎯 When to Use This Tier
- Organizations expanding beyond initial Cribl use cases
- Teams requiring structured implementation across multiple priorities
- Environments where scale introduces complexity and coordination challenges
- Environments where a VAR is managing the client relationship
🏆 What Success Looks Like
- Cribl deployed and operational within 3 months
- Three use cases implemented and validated in production
- Data flowing correctly across defined pipelines and destinations
- Team able to extend and scale the platform with confidence
Strategic Builds on Foundation
Ready for more scale? The Enterprise tier delivers five use cases for complex, multi-domain environments.
Foundation
- Architecture design & dependency planning
- Use Case Planning Workshop
- Cribl deployment (Leader + Worker Groups)
- 2 production-ready use cases
- Source & destination configuration
- Architecture + As-Built documentation
Strategic
- All Foundation elements
- 3 production-ready use cases
- Coordinated multi-use-case implementation
- Validated data routing, filtering & destinations
- Architecture + As-Built documentation
- Knowledge transfer throughout
Enterprise
- All Strategic elements
- 5 production-ready use cases
- Multi-domain coordinated onboarding
- Standardized pipeline architecture
- Enterprise-scale routing & filtering
mesh™ Add-On
Optional Enhancement
mesh™This engagement can be enhanced through a mesh™ subscription for ongoing governance, outcome prioritization, and alignment beyond the activation window.
mesh™ keeps your Cribl investment on track after deployment: continuous oversight, not a one-time handoff.
Learn about mesh™ →Three Validated Use Cases in 3 Months
Cribl Activation Strategic scales through structured execution, not incremental build. Three validated use cases, production-ready infrastructure, and a team equipped to grow.