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Simplify Your Budget Planning with Ingest-Only Pricing for LogStream Cloud

Over the last year, we’ve seen tremendous growth in both demand and usage for LogStream Cloud. It is exciting to be able to speed up time to value, reduce the total cost of ownership, and deliver LogStream to customers in a way that best fits their organizational needs. We here at Cribl have been working with our cloud customers to better understand how to optimize LogStream Cloud pricing to provide the best possible ROI.

Managing Your SIEM EPS License with Cribl LogStream

We see unfriendly customer practices all around in the SIEM space. For example, some major SIEM vendors use an Events Per Second (EPS) license model to monetize access to their tools. Typically, these vendors will drop data above the EPS license or stop data ingestion to incentive license compliance if you run over your EPS license. These license controls disrupt operations and risk enterprise security posture, which can cause chaos.

Catching Malicious Log4j/Log4Shell Events In Real Time with LogStream

The recent Apache Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 dubbed Log4Shell is a big deal. By now there is no shortage of blogs, other write-ups, and analysis about why this vulnerability is an urgent issue and why there is a very good chance it applies to your environment. Here are some of the articles that dive into the gory details on this CVE.

Getting the Memo: Breaking Down the OMB's M-21-31

If you read my last blog post, you’re already ahead of the game. You know that in May of 2021, the Biden Administration announced Executive Order (EO) 14028: Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, which mandates each federal agency to adapt to today’s continuously changing threat environment. Well, folks, the saga continues.

Are You Ready to (Executive) Order?

We’ve all been there. That harrowing moment at the restaurant when the waiter comes to the table and asks that fateful question: “Are you ready to order?” I don’t know about you, but I am almost never ready. Do I want chicken or steak? I’ve eaten a lot of meat this week… Should I opt for fish or a vegetarian option instead? Oh, God. I forgot to check the reviews online. What do other people like the best? Cue heart palpitations.

Amazon S3: Lake is the New Bus

This is a short blog post about a pattern that we’ve observed more frequently among some of the large enterprises: the use of AWS S3 as both an observability lake and a data bus. AWS S3’s simple API, ubiquitous language support, unmatched reliability and durability, retention options, and numerous pricing plans have made it the de facto standard for storing massive amounts of data.

The Stream Life Episode 25: SaaS Security Platforms

In this episode of the Stream Life Podcast, Nick Heudecker and Ed Bailey look at SaaS security platforms and managed security providers and how they’ve grown over time. They look at the benefits the model brings to organizations, how it is growing across the world, the challenges it can also bring, and the questions you should be asking your vendors.

LogStream Cloud How To: Sending Data to LogStream from Various Agents

Cribl released LogStream Cloud to the world in the Spring of 2021, making it easier than ever to stand up a functional o11y pipeline. The service is free for up to 1TB per day and can be upgraded to unlock all the features and support with paid plans starting at $0.17 per GB so you pay for only exactly what you use. In this blog post, we’ll go over how to quickly get data flowing into LogStream Cloud from a few common log sources.