Cribl vs Devo comparison

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Cribl and Devo are both solutions in the Log Management category. Cribl is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.6, while Devo is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.9. Cribl holds a 2.3% mindshare in Log Management, compared to Devo’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Cribl users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Devo users who would recommend it.

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98% willing to recommend

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Devo and Cribl compete in the data management and analytics category. Devo has the upper hand with its advanced analytics capabilities, supporting more comprehensive data querying and visualization across multiple sources.

Features: Devo's standout features include Activeboards for querying and visualizing data from diverse sources, real-time analytics, and 400 days of hot data retention. Its detailed management of structured and unstructured data, coupled with a multi-tenant architecture, enhances its flexibility for data analysis. Cribl highlights cost management through data reduction, a vendor-agnostic routing system, and a user-friendly interface. Its robust integration capabilities bolster its functionality in data manipulation and cost efficiency.

Room for Improvement: Devo faces challenges with large searches impacting browser performance and limited visual analytics customization. There's also feedback regarding unexpected pricing changes post-update. Cribl requires enhanced performance for high-volume data and more comprehensive documentation. Scalability and handling comprehensive metrics are areas for further development.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Devo offers versatile deployment options across public, private, and hybrid clouds, combined with robust tech support. On the other hand, Cribl excels in ease of deployment primarily for on-premises environments, which suits organizations with particular infrastructure requirements. Cribl’s customer service is efficient though often rated as having longer resolution times.

Pricing and ROI: Devo’s pricing strategy focuses on data ingestion, sometimes leading to unexpected costs such as metadata charges. The retention of 400 days of hot data provides tangible ROI, enhancing data visibility and cost efficiency. Cribl is appreciated for its cost-effectiveness, especially when integrated with solutions like Splunk, enabling significant savings on data ingestion and scalability. Cribl’s simplified pricing model aligns well with organizations aiming to optimize ingestion costs.

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Cribl vs. Devo

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Review summaries and opinions

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

6.2

Devo provided improved ROI through cost savings and efficiency, despite some concerns over costs and support challenges.

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.

Richard McIver

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.

reviewer2765085

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.

Benedict Tawiah

Sr. Lead Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Devo gives value to the end user and is saving compared to other products in the same category.

Ahmad Zakwan

Principal Consultant at Syntx Sdn Bhd

In terms of return on investment with Devo, I'd say it has been costly due to the need for support and the overtime required for issues experienced at the beginning of the project.

Leland Austin

Senior Consultant and Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We achieve early identification of security incidents that could potentially breach the customer environment, which would have been costly.

Jay Kar

Principal Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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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

6.2

Customer service is responsive and proactive, but needs improvement in onboarding, documentation, and regional service consistency.

They had extensive expertise with the product and were able to facilitate everything we needed.

Abdullah Zubair

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.

Samer Abdallah

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.

Preetham KumarT.S.B

Senior Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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I rate the customer support a nine out of ten because of their timely technical guidance and responsiveness during the deployment and troubleshooting periods.

Vikram Chakravarthy

Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO

Both response time and support quality need attention.

Usama Khan

Team Lead Soc at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Technical support from Devo is helpful.

Ahmad Zakwan

Principal Consultant at Syntx Sdn Bhd

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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

6.9

Praised for scalability, Devo efficiently manages large logs, easily expands use, but multi-tenancy features need development.

The infrastructure behind Cribl Search is also scalable as it uses a CPU and just spawns horizontally more instances as it demands and requires.

Samer Abdallah

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.

Aman Verma

Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Cribl performs effectively across both market segments.

reviewer2805801

Principal at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

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Devo is a unified SIEM solution designed to handle growing log volumes and enterprise-scale monitoring requirements.

Vikram Chakravarthy

Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO

Devo's scalability has its challenges.

Leland Austin

Senior Consultant and Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Regarding Devo's scalability, its horizontal scalability is quite good with no significant hassle.

Jay Kar

Principal Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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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

7.5

Devo offers reliable performance with minimal outages, praised for proactive alerts and quick incident resolution, ensuring business continuity.

Migrating from those SC4S servers to Cribl worker nodes has truly been a game-changer.

Benedict Tawiah

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.

Preetham KumarT.S.B

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.

Nitin Arora

Security Delivery Senior Analyst at Accenture

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It is stable and reliable for our security operations.

Vikram Chakravarthy

Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO

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Room For Improvement

Cribl should improve cost efficiency, automation, documentation, UI, log handling, pricing flexibility, and offer pre-built templates.

Devo needs enhancements in support, performance, AI, customization, and documentation, focusing on data management and UI configuration.

A more stringent role-based access control feature would enhance security and allow granular control over what users can see and access.

Dhevasenapathy Ramasamy Shanmugasundaram

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.

reviewer2805069

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.

Juan Mallorquin

Senior Manager at Deloitte

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It's hard for us to keep pace since our original use case was 250 to 500 megabytes a day, and then it became two terabytes a day.

Leland Austin

Senior Consultant and Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Integrating custom parsing and mapping for non-standard logs is essential due to compatibility challenges with various technologies.

Jay Kar

Principal Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

This is particularly evident when dealing with failed login attempts and determining true versus false positives.

Francisco JavierRomo

Strategic Account Executive at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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Setup Cost

Cribl offers competitive, cost-effective pricing at $0.32 per GB, aligning with cost-efficiency goals despite credit-based complexity.

Devo offers competitive, simple data ingestion-based pricing with extensive features and flexibility, despite some limitations in tier options.

Over time, the licensing cost has increased.

SAURABHYADAV6

SIEM Engineer at National Australia Bank (NAB)

It was cheaper than the Splunk license.

Kester Chidley

Security Engineering Programme Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Splunk is more expensive, and Cribl appears to be more affordable.

reviewer2805801

Principal at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

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The pricing could be simpler, and while the initial setup cost for a new instance is a bit expensive, the licensing can currently be user-based or driven by log volume, which is better if there is expansion of our user base.

Jay Kar

Principal Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The pricing of the product is reasonable if we compare it with other Gartner leading products like Splunk, LogRhythm, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps.

Usama Khan

Team Lead Soc at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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Valuable Features

Cribl excels in data management with an intuitive interface, real-time processing, and flexible integration, optimizing efficiency and costs.

Devo excels in real-time analytics, large data handling, customization, and third-party integration, enhancing security operations with advanced features.

The data reduction and preprocessing capabilities make Cribl really unique.

Abdullah Zubair

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.

Manoj Gowda J

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.

Richard McIver

Senior Security Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees

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When they see a spike in a line chart for a failed login, which could be a true or false attempt, they can click that spike, and a table widget on the same active board instantly populates with raw logs of data for those specific failed logins.

Francisco JavierRomo

Strategic Account Executive at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

When the analyst uses queries to search, it pulls the data quickly, in a second, which aids us greatly with the investigation.

Vikram Chakravarthy

Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO

It utilizes 400 days of hot data, allowing queries to run very fast and yield results quicker than other tools in terms of security and SIEM capability.

G Srivastava

Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Cribl

Ranking in Log Management

3rd

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (7th), Observability Pipeline Software (1st)

Devo

Ranking in Log Management

21st

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

16th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Operations Analytics (7th), AIOps (17th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Cribl is 2.3%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Devo is 1.4%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cribl	2.3%
Devo	1.4%
Other	96.3%

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Featured Reviews

JigarHirani

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.

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Usama Khan

Team Lead Soc at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Advanced threat hunting has improved SOC visibility and now supports faster incident response

Devo can improve in how its connectors enhance integration with third-party tools. Devo's architecture works by having you deploy a relay server in the data center of the client side and Devo SIEM is basically on the AWS cloud. There are specific ports which are enabled on the relay server, which are 514 and 13000, 13151, 152. However, when we talk about databases and custom integrations, there are not default ports in the relay server. No default ports are defined. For JDBC drivers, the port number is 1433, but it is not in the relay server. You have to add it manually. For Oracle RDBMS, the port is 1521, and it is also not there by default. I would appreciate more third-party integrations including Fortinet and others. Machine learning models can also be improved. Playbooks in the SOAR can also be improved. Regarding playbooks for automation, we utilize playbooks for automation in SOAR for automated IOC blocking on a firewall, on a web application firewall, on DNS security, etc. The only option for us to run the playbook is to schedule the job for it. However, if I want to manually run the playbook, there is no option for doing so. This needs improvement.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	52
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	36

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	15

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.

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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...

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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 ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Devo?

The price is considered okay.

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What needs improvement with Devo?

In terms of improvements, I think Devo falls short with their support model, as they rely mainly on their support team in Spain. Although they do have a support team in North America, they lack kno...

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What is your primary use case for Devo?

Devo is the bank's centralized log management platform that my team and I rely on the most. For centralized log management in our day-to-day work, one of the biggest data users would be our Red Hat...

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Overview

Cribl offers advanced data transformation and routing with features such as data reduction, plugin configurations, and log collection within a user-friendly framework supporting various deployments, significantly reducing data volumes and costs.

Cribl is designed to streamline data management, offering real-time data transformation and efficient log management. It supports seamless SIEM migration, enabling organizations to optimize costs associated with platforms like Splunk through data trimming. The capability to handle multiple data destinations and compression eases log control. With flexibility across on-prem, cloud, or hybrid environments, Cribl provides an adaptable interface that facilitates quick data model replication. While it significantly reduces data volumes, enhancing overall efficiency, there are areas for improvement, including compatibility with legacy systems and integration with enterprise products. Organizations can enhance their operational capabilities through certification opportunities and explore added functionalities tailored towards specific industry needs.

What are Cribl's most important features?

Data Transformation: Real-time data routing and transformation for improved efficiency.
Data Reduction: Reduces data volumes, lowering storage and licensing costs.
Routing and Masking: Offers powerful data masking and easy plugin configurations.
Log Collection: Simplifies the log collection process across different environments.
Deployment Flexibility: Supports on-prem, cloud, or hybrid deployments.
Seamless Integration: Facilitates easy migration to SIEMs and various data destinations.

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Cost Savings: Reduces licensing costs by trimming unnecessary data.
Enhanced Efficiency: Improves data handling through seamless integration and transformation.
Operational Flexibility: Provides multiple deployment options to suit organizational preferences.
Data Management: Enhances user control over logs with advanced data reduction and compression.
Certification Opportunities: Offers users chances to enhance skills and operational capabilities.

Cribl sees extensive use in industries prioritizing efficient data management and cost optimization. Organizations leverage its capabilities to connect between different data sources, including cloud environments, improving both data handling and storage efficiency. Its customization options appeal to firms needing specific industry compliance and operational enhancements.

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Devo offers powerful visual analytics, real-time data querying, and log integration capabilities within a cloud-native, multi-tenant architecture, supporting extended data retention ideal for long-term analysis and compliance.

Devo is recognized for its Activeboards, which facilitate visual analytics. High-speed search capabilities and real-time analytics enable efficient data manipulation and querying. Its multi-tenant architecture supports effective data segregation and customization tailored to distinct business needs, enhancing its value for handling complex log integrations. With extended data retention of 400 days and a cloud-native architecture, Devo is a robust platform for long-term analysis and compliance requirements. Though opportunities exist to improve browser stability on large searches, SOAR integrations, and its parser capabilities, Devo remains essential for incident response and security monitoring, offering centralized data storage and analysis.

What are Devo's most important features?

Activeboards: Facilitate visual analytics and data exploration.
High-Speed Search: Enables fast data querying and manipulation.
Real-Time Analytics: Supports instant insights and decision-making.
Multi-Tenant Architecture: Allows effective data segregation and customization.
Extended Data Retention: Offers 400-day log retention for compliance and analysis.
Complex Log Integration: Handles intricate data sources effortlessly.

What benefits and ROI should organizations look for in reviews?

Visual Insights: Enhance understanding through interactive dashboards.
Performance Efficiency: Saves time with high-speed data search and real-time results.
Customization Flexibility: Fits specific business requirements with multi-tenant architecture.
Long-Term Compliance: Ensures alignment with extended data retention needs.
Centralized Monitoring: Enables comprehensive incident response and security monitoring.

Devo is extensively used in industries focused on incident response and digital forensics, centralizing data for security monitoring across hybrid environments. Organizations benefit from its ability to store and analyze aggregated logs, creating alerts and dashboards to enhance visibility for network and endpoint activities in multi-domain settings.

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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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