Cribl Lake

Cribl Lake is a turnkey, cloud-native data lake designed for storing, accessing, replaying, and analyzing telemetry data. It is part of the Cribl product suite and targets security and IT operations teams that need scalable, cost-effective log and telemetry storage without requiring data engineering expertise. Key characteristics: - Stores raw, structured, and unstructured telemetry data in open file formats, avoiding vendor lock-in - Zero-configuration automated provisioning with no pre-defined schemas, SQL expertise, or ETL pipelines required - Supports tiered storage to align data retention with access frequency and value, reducing costs - Provides unified retention, security, and access control policies across object stores and cloud environments - Supports BYOS (Bring Your Own Storage), allowing Cribl Lake to act as a management layer over existing storage - Enables direct data ingestion from sources, including third-party agents and legacy SIEMs, without intermediate processing layers - Integrates natively with Cribl Search for querying data at rest without rehydration or data movement - Includes AI-assisted features via Cribl Copilot for natural language queries and automated data typing at ingest - Supports schema-on-read, allowing schemas to be defined only when needed - Offers fine-grained role-based access controls and configurable retention policies for compliance - Separates compute from storage, enabling independent scaling - Stores AI and LLM infrastructure telemetry for investigations, compliance, and optimization Primary use cases include reducing SIEM ingestion costs, long-term log retention, compliance archiving, and security investigations.