Every category where a model named Cribl Stream for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Telemetry pipelines	IT operations and endpoint	17%	2 of 124	6%	32	accepted challenger
Log management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	18 of 73	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by Datadog Log Management at 28%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cribl Stream yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Cribl Stream across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	2	1	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	2	0	0	0	2
Grok 4.20	1	2	1	0	4
Mistral Small	0	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	3	1	6
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	2	1	1	1	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	0	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	0	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	2	1	0	5

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct21 labels9

Paraphrase24 labels15

Comparative41 labels12not counted in share

Budget-constrained14 labels6

Scale-constrained19 labels4

Negative12 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative131 labels in all, every segment counted; 34 of the 47 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“A dedicated pipeline layer (Cribl, Mezmo, etc.) or a well-managed OTel + Vector setup usually hits the sweet spot of control without massive overhead.” Kimi K2 · Telemetry pipelines · scale prompt · first choice

“The best telemetry pipeline for a company with a limited budget is Cribl Stream, as it is ranked #1 of 28 and has a rating of 9.1/10.” Llama 4 Maverick · Telemetry pipelines · budget prompt · first choice

“a commercial tool like Cribl often pays for itself via rapid deployment and massive data reduction” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Telemetry pipelines · scale prompt · first choice

“Cribl Stream ranks highest overall... Often ranked #1 for general-purpose observability pipelines” Perplexity Sonar · Telemetry pipelines · comparative prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Caveat: It is enterprise-priced. For a mid-sized B2B, the ROI usually only makes sense if you are spending significantly on observability backends” Kimi K2 · Telemetry pipelines · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“it's overkill for most mid-sized B2B companies” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Telemetry pipelines · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cribl Stream, over the 131 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cribl Stream was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

OpenTelemetry Collector68 of 13132Compare →

Vector53 of 13113Compare →

Datadog37 of 1311Not among the top eight

Splunk Observability Cloud33 of 1310Not among the top eight

Fluent Bit31 of 1313Compare →

Dynatrace25 of 1311Not among the top eight

Datadog Log Management23 of 1314Not among the top eight

Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline23 of 1311Not among the top eight

Edge Delta21 of 1311Not among the top eight

Elastic Stack21 of 1311Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Cribl Stream. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 128 of the 131 answers that named Cribl Stream and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cribl.ioYour site100

itechguides.com42

external.pi.gpi.aws.gartner.com38

edgedelta.com35

openobserve.ai35

g2.com31

coralogix.com30

zipdo.co29

opentelemetry.io27

motadata.com26

293 of the 393 domain citations in answers naming Cribl Stream came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cribl.io/resources/comparison-guides/best-observability-pipeline-solutions-for-enterprise55

external.pi.gpi.aws.gartner.com/reviews/market/telemetry-pipelines38

itechguides.com/best/telemetry-pipeline-software34

zipdo.co/best/telemetry-data-software29

cribl.io/products/stream26

cribl.io/resources/comparison-guides/top-10-log-collection-and-analysis-platforms24

g2.com/categories/observability-pipeline23

edgedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/674488871ba0da4611a147c3_whitepaper-sharing-compr21

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

cribl.io ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cribl Stream takes 17% of first choices and OpenTelemetry Collector takes 37%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “telemetry pipeline”

Position for “telemetry pipelines”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 260 a month (“cribl stream”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 15 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 17,616 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 2,577 · 250 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,034
Paid Google search: 1 searches its ads show for, about 1 clicks and $19 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

47 ads · 47 text · 20 shown in the last 30 days

First shown July 2024, as Cribl, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 35 in the year, 12 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

17%

rank 2 of 124 in telemetry pipelines

Segment leader

37%

OpenTelemetry Collector

First choices: 34 across its categories
Named in: 131 answers
Its own site cited: in 128 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on cribl.io

12,063

subdomains included

Content

1,797

counted in the table below

Documentation

9,956

Product · Integration

62 · 114

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	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

Last twelve months

October 29, 2026it-sa Expo&Congress 2026NürnbergMesse, Nuremberg, Germany · exhibited
October 28, 2026it-sa Expo&Congress 2026NürnbergMesse, Nuremberg, Germany · exhibited
October 27, 2026it-sa Expo&Congress 2026NürnbergMesse, Nuremberg, Germany · exhibited
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.

Names read as Cribl Stream

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cribl Stream; a claim can dispute any of them.

Cribl 15Cribl (Stream + Edge) 1Cribl Stream / Edge 1Cribl Stream / Lake 1

Follow Cribl Stream

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Cribl Stream is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Event Stream Processing
cribl.io
For: IT and security teams
cribl.io/platform
Price stated: Price based on GBs of data ingested. cribl.io/pricing/lake
Free plan or trial: Process up to 1TB/day, no license required. cribl.io
Integrations claimed: 150 cribl.io
Customers named: SA Power NetworksServiceNowNutanixCox AutomotiveHughes Network SystemsSally BeautyPegasystemsCribl
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, certifications, hosting

What Cribl Stream's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: cribl.io, cribl.io/pricing/lake, trust.cribl.io, cribl.io/platform, cribl.io/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Cribl Stream's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Cribl Stream, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cribl Stream by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Cribl Stream is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Cribl Stream, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Cribl Stream is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Cribl Stream is among the products AI models recommend first in Telemetry pipelines this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/telemetry-pipelines/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cribl-stream--telemetry-pipelines-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Telemetry pipelines, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Telemetry pipelines standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/telemetry-pipelines/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cribl-stream--telemetry-pipelines-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Telemetry pipelines, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Telemetry pipelines standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/telemetry-pipelines/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cribl-stream--telemetry-pipelines-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Telemetry pipelines, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Telemetry pipelines standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.