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Cribl vs Devo comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 26, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Cribl
Ranking in Log Management
37th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (36th), Data Integration (37th), Cloud Data Integration (23rd), Data Preparation Tools (6th)
Devo
Ranking in Log Management
17th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (13th), IT Operations Analytics (3rd), AIOps (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2024, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Cribl is 0.6%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Devo is 0.6%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

Jai Chudasama - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 6, 2024
Provides data normalization and routes the same data to different destinations but lacks documentation
We employed a hybrid strategy, setting up Cribl Cloud as the head node in their environment. For data processing, we used worker nodes within the client’s environment, which are closer to the data sources. This setup allowed us to process data locally before sending it to our destination. For cloud assets, such as SaaS applications like Salesforce, we used the cloud-hosted Cribl instance to handle that information. Meanwhile, the on-premises data was processed by the hybrid worker nodes. We encountered delays due to third-party issues, extending the timeline to six to seven months. Without these issues, it likely would have taken around three months, depending on the speed of obtaining API keys, authorizations from networking teams, and other factors. Under ideal circumstances, a three-month timeframe would be more accurate. You need to maintain the pipeline, which includes data processing, before it reaches its destination. When onboarding new data, managing and rotating API keys as needed is important. Maintaining these aspects ensures faster and more efficient deployments. If you want to reduce log ingestion or route data to multiple destinations, consider using an on-premises or cloud solution. Your choice will depend on your organization’s network constraints. For example, if critical assets on your network need to connect to the internet, your network team might have restrictions. Weigh the benefits of cloud versus on-premises options to determine what best fits your needs.
JB
Oct 7, 2022
Keeps 400 days of hot data, covers our cloud products, and has a high ingestion rate and super easy log integrations
The most useful feature for us, because of some of the issues we had previously, was the simplicity of log integrations. It's much easier with this platform to integrate log sources that might not have standard logging and things like that. Alerting is very easy to set up and use, and it's pretty robust. It takes a lot of ingests. We had some issues previously where we were overwhelming our old SIEM. We were setting too many logs, and it couldn't handle the load. That's why we looked for something that could have much higher rates of ingestion. The fact that the solution manages 400 days of hot data was a huge selling point. In our organization, we have to have 365 days of hot data all the time, and licensing that with other solutions was extremely expensive.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The platform's most valuable feature is the ability to transform data in real-time within the pipeline without sending it to a destination."
"Cribl offers other valuable features. For instance, you can replay data from an edge device, store your daily data in a stream, and replay specific event data into Splunk if a security incident occurs"
"Cribl offers easy plugin configurations and source collection settings, allowing us to collect logs from any source."
"The product's most valuable features include the internal management of events, coding perspective, data processing, and serialization."
"Cribl uses tags to help manage and standardize data from different sources. For example, if we have an F5 firewall as a data source, we create a "pack" specifically for F5. This pack transforms and standardizes the F5 data into a consistent schema, making it easier to use across various security teams."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the ability that Devo has to ingest data. From the previous SIEM that I came from and helped my company administer, it really was the type of system where data was parsed on ingest. This meant that if you didn't build the parser efficiently or correctly, sometimes that would bring the system to its knees. You'd have a backlog of processing the logs as it was ingesting them."
"The user experience [is] well thought out and the workflows are logical. The dashboards are intuitive and highly customizable."
"In traditional BI solutions, you need to wait a lot of time to have the ability to create visualizations with the data and to do searches. With this kind of platform, you have that information in real-time."
"The user interface is really modern. As an end-user, there are a lot of possibilities to tailor the platform to your needs, and that can be done without needing much support from Devo. It's really flexible and modular. The UI is very clean."
"The thing that Devo does better than other solutions is to give me the ability to write queries that look at multiple data sources and run fast. Most SIEMs don't do that. And I can do that by creating entity-based queries. Let's say I have a table which has Okta, a table which has G Suite, a table which has endpoint telemetry, and I have a table which has DNS telemetry. I can write a query that says, 'Join all these things together on IP, and where the IP matches in all these tables, return to me that subset of data, within these time windows.' I can break it down that way."
"The ability to have high performance, high-speed search capability is incredibly important for us. When it comes to doing security analysis, you don't want to be doing is sitting around waiting to get data back while an attacker is sitting on a network, actively attacking it. You need to be able to answer questions quickly. If I see an indicator of attack, I need to be able to rapidly pivot and find data, then analyze it and find more data to answer more questions. You need to be able to do that quickly. If I'm sitting around just waiting to get my first response, then it ends up moving too slow to keep up with the attacker. Devo's speed and performance allows us to query in real-time and keep up with what is actually happening on the network, then respond effectively to events."
"The most valuable feature is that it has native MSSP capabilities and maintains perfect data separation. It does all of that in a very easy-to-manage cloud-based solution."
"The most useful feature for us, because of some of the issues we had previously, was the simplicity of log integrations. It's much easier with this platform to integrate log sources that might not have standard logging and things like that."
 

Cons

"We faced an issue that might be a bug or a problem with the data sources. Since Cribl Stream operates with sources and destinations, collecting, transforming, standardizing, and reducing data before sending it to its destination, the problem could have originated from the server or the sources."
"Cribl doesn't have as many packs available"
"Cribl could improve by offering easier integrations with enterprise products, similar to what Splunk provides."
"The sys logging could be enhanced to make it easier to identify errors, especially when dealing with multiple functions."
"There is no alerting mechanism for the leader/worker nodes status."
"One major area for improvement for Devo... is to provide more capabilities around pre-built monitoring. They're working on integrations with different types of systems, but that integration needs to go beyond just onboarding to the platform. It needs to include applications, out-of-the-box, that immediately help people to start monitoring their systems. Such applications would include dashboards and alerts, and then people could customize them for their own needs so that they aren't starting from a blank slate."
"Some basic reporting mechanisms have room for improvement. Customers can do analysis by building Activeboards, Devo’s name for interactive dashboards. This capability is quite nice, but it is not a reporting engine. Devo does provide mechanisms to allow third-party tools to query data via their API, which is great. However, a lot of folks like or want a reporting engine, per se, and Devo simply doesn't have that. This may or may not be by design."
"I would like to have the ability to create more complex dashboards."
"The price is one problem with Devo."
"The biggest area with room for improvement in Devo is the Security Operations module that just isn't there yet. That goes back to building out how they're going to do content and larger correlation and aggregation of data across multiple things, as well as natively ingesting CTI to create rule sets."
"From our experience, the Devo agent needs some work. They built it on top of OS Query's open-source framework. It seems like it wasn't tuned properly to handle a large volume of Windows event logs. In our experience, there would definitely be some room for improvement. A lot of SIEMs on the market have their own agent infrastructure. I think Devo's working towards that, but I think that it needs some improvement as far as keeping up with high-volume environments."
"There are some issues from an availability and functionality standpoint, meaning the tool is somewhat slow. There were some slow response periods over the past six to nine months, though it has yet to impact us terribly as we are a relatively small shop. We've noticed it, however, so Devo could improve the responsiveness."
"The overall performance of extraction could be a lot faster, but that's a common problem in this space in general. Also, the stock or default alerting and detecting options could definitely be broader and more all-encompassing. The fact that they're not is why we had to write all our own alerts."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product pricing is reasonable compared to other solutions."
"Devo is definitely cheaper than Splunk. There's no doubt about that. The value from Devo is good. It's definitely more valuable to me than QRadar or LogRhythm or any of the old, traditional SIEMs."
"Be cautious of metadata inclusion for log types in pricing, as there are some "gotchas" with that."
"I rate the pricing a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."
"[Devo was] in the ballpark with at least a couple of the other front-runners that we were looking at. Devo is a good value and, given the quality of the product, I would expect to pay more."
"I like the pricing very much. They keep it simple. It is a single price based on data ingested, and they do it on an average. If you get a spike of data that flows in, they will not stick it to you or charge you for that. They are very fair about that."
"Devo is a hosted or subscription-based solution, whereas before, we purchased QRadar, so we owned it and just had to pay a maintenance fee. We've encountered this with some other products, too, where we went over to subscription-based. Our thought process is that with subscription based, the provider hosts and maintains the tool, and it's offsite. That comes with some additional fees, but we were able to convince our upper management it was worth the price. We used to pay under 10k a year for maintenance, and now we're paying ten times that. It was a relatively tough sell to our management, but I wonder if we have a choice anymore; this is where the market is."
"The way Devo prices things is based on the amount of data, and I wish the tiers had more granularity. Maybe at this point they do, but when we first negotiated with them, there were only three or four tiers."
"It's a per gigabyte cost for ingestion of data. For every gigabyte that you ingest, it's whatever you negotiated your price for. Compared to other contracts that we've had for cloud providers, it's significantly less."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
Computer Software Company
17%
Government
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cribl?
Compared to other enterprise solutions, Cribl tends to be more cost-effective. While other major players can be quite expensive, especially as data volumes increase over time, Cribl offers a fair p...
What needs improvement with Cribl?
Cribl has simplified many aspects of the onboarding process, but there's still room for improvement. Currently, no other tools in the market truly compete with Cribl in its niche. Splunk is trying ...
What is your primary use case for Cribl?
We were one of the first customers when Cribl launched. Around 10% to 20% of Cribl had already been implemented when I joined. My role involved expanding it to 100% of our incoming logs being proce...
What do you like most about Devo?
Devo has a really good website for creating custom configurations.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Devo?
Compared to Splunk or SentinelOne, it is really expensive. I rate the product’s pricing a nine out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
What needs improvement with Devo?
They can improve their AI capabilities. If you look at some integrations like XDR or AI, which add to the platform to correlate situations in events, there are areas for enhancement. For instance, ...
 

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United States Air Force, Rubrik, SentinelOne, Critical Start, NHL, Panda Security, Telefonica, CaixaBank, OpenText, IGT, OneMain Financial, SurveyMonkey, FanDuel, H&R Block, Ulta Beauty, Manulife, Moneylion, Chime Bank, Magna International, American Express Global Business Travel
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