Cribl is a fast-growing observability infrastructure company best known for Cribl Stream, an "observability pipeline" that lets organizations collect, reduce, transform, and route machine data (logs, metrics, traces) to any destination, decoupling data collection from analysis tools like Splunk, Datadog, or Elastic. Founded in 2017, Cribl is a privately held, well-funded company (backed by investors including CRV, Sequoia, and Greylock) widely regarded as a category leader in the emerging observability pipeline space.