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Cribl vs CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM comparison

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.1
Cribl enhances ROI by optimizing data handling, reducing costs, and improving efficiency through streamlined data management and retention.
Sentiment score
5.3
CrowdStrike Falcon's impact varied, showing clear ROI for some but unclear results for others, enhancing team cohesion and response speed.
What we've seen is really an overall reduction of just shy of 40% in our ingest into our SIM platform versus prior to having Cribl.
Senior Security Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
The second thing is that data aggregation, sampling, and reduction that we're able to do of the data, lowering our overall data volume, both traversing the network as well as what's being stored inside of our final solutions.
Director, Performance Engineering at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
In terms of reduction, we were able to save almost ~40% of our total cost.
Sr. Lead Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The impact of this consolidation has resulted in greater team cohesion, greater team efficacy, and greater speed of response.
Security Operations at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The impact on our operations has been positive, as we have moved several functions from another platform into CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, resulting in savings in both money and time.
IT-Infrastruktur and Cloud at a renewables & environment company with 10,001+ employees
Return on investment with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM comes from reducing investigation time, consolidating tools, and improving my productivity as an analyst.
InfoSecAnalyst at a renewables & environment company with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
Cribl's customer service is highly rated, with knowledgeable staff praised for expertise despite occasional response delays.
Sentiment score
5.7
CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM support is praised for rapid, skilled, empathetic service and effective issue resolution.
They had extensive expertise with the product and were able to facilitate everything we needed.
Security Consultant at Integrity360
Usually, within an hour, we get a response, and we are able to work with them back and forth until we resolve the issues.
Engineering Fellow at Pegasystems
Sometimes by hearing the problem itself, they will know what the solution is, and they will let us know how to resolve it, and we do it immediately.
Senior Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
What makes the customer service great is that support is both technically sound and empathetic in their understanding of different situations.
Security Operations at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have never had an issue, and if we ask, somebody answers quickly, either our account rep or if we submit a ticket, they are very quick about getting back to us.
System Administrator at W. O. Grubb Steel Erection, Inc.
The quality is strongest when issues are documented clearly with examples and business impact.
InfoSecAnalyst at a renewables & environment company with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
Cribl's distributed architecture enables seamless scaling, efficiently managing high-volume data, supporting enterprise demands with minimal workforce involvement.
Sentiment score
5.9
CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM is highly scalable, user-friendly, and prepared for future growth beyond current organizational needs.
The infrastructure behind Cribl Search is also scalable as it uses a CPU and just spawns horizontally more instances as it demands and requires.
Engineering Fellow at Pegasystems
Compared to other SIEM tools I use, any slight change on the operating system end impacts a lot on our SIEM tools and other things, but Cribl performs well in that regard.
Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Cribl performs effectively across both market segments.
Principal at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM scales effectively with the growing needs of my organization.
Security Operations at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would say that CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM scales with the growing needs of my organization.
Avp Cyber Pen Test Master
The scalability of CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM is great as it adapts perfectly well when the number of clients or the volume of data increases.
Manager, Delivery at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Cribl is praised for its stability and reliability, with efficient handling and minimal downtime, though occasional issues occur.
Sentiment score
7.9
CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM is reliable, with seamless integration, solid performance, minimal downtime, and excellent user ratings.
Migrating from those SC4S servers to Cribl worker nodes has truly been a game-changer.
Sr. Lead Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Regarding scalability, we started with zero servers and have around 285 servers now.
Senior Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Cribl is designed to deal with certain kinds of loads and is not designed to handle any scenario in the market.
Security Delivery Senior Analyst at Accenture
We have never had issues with reliability or it being down or unavailable, or unreasonably long search times.
Cloud And Security Operations Engineer at a hospitality company with 201-500 employees
I have experienced very minimal downtime, crashes, or performance issues with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM.
Security Operations at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would describe the stability and reliability of CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM as really good, as it is stable and reliable, triggering everything and figuring out everything, so it saves a lot of time.
Avp Cyber Pen Test Master
 

Room For Improvement

Cribl should improve cost efficiency, automation, documentation, UI, log handling, pricing flexibility, and offer pre-built templates.
CrowdStrike Falcon SIEM needs better dashboards, automation, storage, licensing flexibility, and more cat-themed threat actor integrations.
A more stringent role-based access control feature would enhance security and allow granular control over what users can see and access.
Manager for Monitoring and Logging at Velera
When passing query logs or DNS logs, if certain malicious query patterns need to be identified or if fast-flux attacks are happening, Cribl can report that and those would definitely be a plus for them.
Product Manager at UnDisclosed
I would advise others looking to implement Cribl that if they are evolving Cribl Search, it would be very interesting to see more capability, more flexibility, and more ways to share the data similar to Splunk.
Senior Manager at Deloitte
An agent that advises me or notifies me what changes have happened since my last login to the platform, what has changed, what errors it has detected, what connector or parsing failures there have been, and that it gives me a prioritization approach indicating which of these failures are more important and where I should start applying fixes or resolving them.
Delivery Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Necessary improvements revolve around being able to store information in third-party repositories and being able to do federated searches without having to connect to third-party systems.
Senior Manager, Delivery at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I would suggest including data normalization, specifically a way to easily normalize data from different sources, as currently you can do it, but it is a little bit more labor-intensive.
System Administrator at W. O. Grubb Steel Erection, Inc.
 

Setup Cost

Cribl offers competitive, cost-effective pricing at $0.32 per GB, aligning with cost-efficiency goals despite credit-based complexity.
Over time, the licensing cost has increased.
SIEM Engineer at National Australia Bank (NAB)
It was cheaper than the Splunk license.
Security Engineering Programme Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Splunk is more expensive, and Cribl appears to be more affordable.
Principal at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
there are cheaper vendors, there are more expensive vendors, but in general, I think it is well positioned.
Manager, Delivery at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
This consolidation has helped us free up a huge cost by being able to remove other tools in favor of a single one.
Not Specified at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
There have been cases where it has turned out positive and cases where prices have been higher, depending on the specific circumstances and ecosystem of each client.
Senior Manager, Delivery at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Cribl excels in data management with an intuitive interface, real-time processing, and flexible integration, optimizing efficiency and costs.
CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM enhances speed, integrates data sources, scales efficiently, and improves detection accuracy, reducing workload.
The data reduction and preprocessing capabilities make Cribl really unique.
Security Consultant at Integrity360
Cribl has a feature called JSON Unroll or Unroll function that allows you to differentiate the events; each event will come ingested as a single log instead of piling it up with multiple events.
Security Engineer at Tecplix
The Cribl UI is very simple and easy to use, particularly when working with data from various sources; it makes it very easy to create pipelines, add complex logic to those pipelines, and then gives you a preview of what your data looks like before applying that pipeline and what you get after.
Senior Security Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM has had a significant impact on alert volume, false positives, and analyst workload by using lookup tables to improve detection context.
Security Operations at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM has changed the speed at which my team searches, investigates, and responds to security events, with things going from days to minutes or hours.
System Administrator at W. O. Grubb Steel Erection, Inc.
One of the features offered by CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM that is quite useful is Fleet Manager Management, from which I can manage and deploy configurations to LogScale Collectors remotely without needing access to the machines where I collect logs.
Delivery Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Cribl
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (7th), Log Management (3rd), Observability Pipeline Software (1st)
CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen...
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
31st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

JigarHirani - PeerSpot reviewer
Splunk Engineer at a recruiting/HR firm with 11-50 employees
Log pipelines have reduced daily data volume and now simplify traffic analysis
Overall, the pipelines and all the features are good with Cribl. The UI is good. Just sometimes, when I actually started using Cribl, I faced the issue where I was not able to connect the nodes. The pipeline is structured in a certain way, then the data will be routed to there, and something of that nature. I was very much confused about their whole products, such as Data Lake and pipelines. It's possible that at that time I didn't take any university courses, which is why I did not know much. But if they can give an intro on how we can connect nodes, or they can provide simple use cases showing what you can do with Cribl, it would help. If you just need to add the source and the destination and pre-build some proper workflow, then it will be easy for new customers to navigate through Cribl.
KS
IAM Senior Software Engineer at MGM Resorts International
Centralized log onboarding has transformed root-cause analysis and streamlined alert-driven triage
I do not use automations within CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM at this point, but that is something that we want to do in the future. Maybe I did not experiment or did not investigate, but if we can get alerts based upon the CPU utilizations and the metrics over there, probably that would make this one tool used for everything. Actually, the circumstances that prompted my company to explore new SIEM solutions maybe include a point where the storage space or the license that we have, probably compared to other SIEM products, they have more, or the pricing and sales that go into the picture there. Again, that is above my pay grade to comment on, but it probably could be better if we can provide more storage of the data for the license that has been provided for organizations.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
6%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Wholesaler/Distributor
27%
Hospitality Company
26%
Comms Service Provider
17%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business52
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise36
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise17
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cribl?
I find the pricing of Cribl to be cost-efficient because it has helped us save costs for data storage by removing unwanted logs.
What needs improvement with Cribl?
Currently, Cribl is perfectly fine for us, and we have not observed any such issues. However, if we find anything later on, we will document it and share it with you. Cribl could respond more quick...
What is your primary use case for Cribl?
We are using Cribl for log trimming with a vast majority of log sources that have different log patterns or log types. Some logs come in syslog format, some are in JSON, and some are in other HTML ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM?
Pricing, setup costs, and licensing of CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM is not my area.
What needs improvement with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM?
I do not use automations within CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM at this point, but that is something that we want to do in the future. Maybe I did not experiment or did not investigate, but if we ...
What is your primary use case for CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM?
I work on Identity Governance for this solution. We onboard the logs into the SIEM, into CrowdStrike Falcon, and we ensure that we get alerts on time and create dashboards using that data. Our work...
 

Overview

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