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Cribl is a company that provides a vendor-agnostic observability pipeline called Cribl Stream, which allows users to collect, reduce, enrich, normalize, and route data from any source to any destination within their existing data infrastructure. The company aims to enable open observability and provide customers with control over their data. Cribl Stream integrates with popular data platforms like Splunk and supports sending data to Kafka topics. It helps improve system performance, aggregate logs into metrics for reduction at scale, and allows for data replay for analysis. Additionally, Cribl is highly regarded as a great company to work for, with employees praising its work culture and management practices.
Observability is a concept used in IT and cloud computing to measure and understand the internal state of a system by examining its outputs, including logs, metrics, events, and traces. This helps system engineers and DevOps teams to proactively collect and analyze data, troubleshoot system issues, and ensure a system is working correctly. The three main pillars of observability are logs, metrics, and traces. Observability is also a measure of how well the internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs. It is defined as the ability to measure a system's current state and understand its properties and patterns not defined in advance. Control theory describes observability and controllability as mathematical duals.
