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Cribl vs Sumo Logic Observability comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 26, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

Sentiment score
9.5
Cribl customer service is praised for prompt responses, effective support, and community assistance, with a high satisfaction rating.
Sentiment score
8.2
Sumo Logic Observability's customer service is highly rated, with quick responses and helpful support, particularly for advanced and OpenTelemetry issues.
The community, including the engineering and sales teams, is available on Slack and is very supportive.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
5.9
Cribl needs better legacy compatibility, intuitive logging, enhanced documentation, improved onboarding, and desktop server functionality for developers.
Sentiment score
4.6
The system requires efficiency improvements in data usage, cost management, enrichment, search interface, query speed, and pre-built dashboards.
Perhaps more flexibility in terms of metrics would be helpful.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.5
Cribl is scalable and easily integrates with CI/CD pipelines, receiving praise for efficient deployment and seamless cloud management.
Sentiment score
7.8
Sumo Logic Observability scales efficiently for diverse users, handling peak records with ease, supported by Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry.
 

Setup Cost

Sentiment score
8.0
Cribl offers a cost-effective, scalable pricing model with up to 30% cost reductions, appealing to mid-level and large enterprises.
No sentiment score available
<p>Sumo Logic Observability provides flexible, competitive pricing for enterprises, but additional costs may apply for advanced features and high data volumes.</p>
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Cribl is generally rated 7-8 for stability, with minor bugs quickly addressed and continuous development enhancing reliability.
Sentiment score
8.9
Sumo Logic Observability is highly reliable, with users experiencing no issues and rating its reliability a perfect ten for enterprises.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.7
Cribl streamlines real-time data transformation, log collection, and routing with user-friendly features, security, and extensive integration support.
Sentiment score
7.8
Sumo Logic Observability offers real-time alerting, apps, team collaboration, easy integration, and a flexible query language, boosting incident resolution.
The community on Slack is excellent for solving questions and getting ideas.
 

Categories and Ranking

Cribl
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
23rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (23rd), Log Management (18th), Cloud Data Integration (15th), Data Preparation Tools (4th)
Sumo Logic Observability
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
25th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Monitoring Software (23rd), AIOps (10th)
 

Featured Reviews

Hariram G - PeerSpot reviewer
Collects logs from various cloud sources with reduced costs and improved efficiency
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 to retain customers by developing ingest actions to reduce licensing costs, hoping to prevent them from switching to Cribl. There is no alerting mechanism for the leader/worker nodes status. Since Cribl plays a major role in the mid-layer between the source and destination, there's a slight risk of losing data at some points while receiving real time data. It would be helpful if Cribl could temporarily store or index the data for a specific time range. This would prevent data loss during downtime. Additionally, there's room for improvement in how Cribl handles historical data. Currently, I can't view trends beyond a week, and even then, it’s often limited to just 24 hours. Since Cribl doesn’t index the data but only forwards it, extending the period for viewing statistics and monitoring trends would be a valuable enhancement.
David Onuh - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy creation of custom fields, no need to alter applications; supports ten active logging applications simultaneously and faster than aster than default search tools
Alerting and consistency are key. We have different tiers with log collectors, and continuous querying provides near-real-time updates. It's almost like instantly when something happens, like pending transactions or error fees. This helps reduce incident resolution time compared to waiting for thresholds on other platforms. We can continue logging in with them seamlessly and quickly get into action. Another valuable feature is easy custom field creation in Sumo Logic. For example, recently, we had Sumo collect all our container tier load data. Containers can be expensive with heavy logging, so we only wanted important information there. We easily created custom fields without changing our applications because Sumo supported, I think, ten active logging applications at the time. These are heavy applications. Rerouting everything for that field change would have been difficult. So, configuring Sumo Logic, adding a new field, and having applications update that specific field was convenient. Sumo Logic automatically identified different logic categories for us.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
11%
Healthcare Company
8%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Transportation Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cribl?
Cribl offers a reduction in pricing, up to thirty percent, which is beneficial. Although I'm not involved in licensing, I know that the price reduction is accurate and well-received.
What needs improvement with Cribl?
Cribl should consider adding more features that are applicable to smaller firms, allowing broader access to their data migration through Cribl. Additionally, there's room for more enhancement conce...
What is your primary use case for Cribl?
In this particular situation, we use Cribl to deploy data to various destinations. My role is to create and analyze data and deploy it to the appropriate location required by the organization. I al...
What needs improvement with Sumo Logic Observability?
The speed of queries could be improved. When using more advanced functions, especially with large datasets like the 90-day log retention we had, queries could be slow, sometimes taking up to five m...
What is your primary use case for Sumo Logic Observability?
We used it for log observability – log aggregation specifically.
 

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