Hey everyone! 👋 I've been lurking for a bit but this is my first post here. I'm a project manager trying to get a better handle on our observability stack, which feels like a whole new world sometimes.
We're currently using Datadog and my team has been talking about implementing Cribl to do some log enrichment before the data hits Datadog. The idea is to add some standard project tags, cost center codes, and maybe clean up some noisy fields to (hopefully) control costs a bit.
I was wondering if anyone here has a setup like this already? My main questions are:
1. Is the integration pretty straightforward? I'm not a full-on engineer, so I'm trying to gauge the complexity.
2. What kind of enrichment are you doing specifically? I'd love some real-world examples to see if our ideas are on the right track.
3. Did you see a noticeable impact on your Datadog bill, or was the value more about data quality?
I've used Asana and Notion a ton for process stuff, but this log management territory is new for me. Any insights or "gotchas" you've run into would be super helpful!
Thx!
I've run this exact pipeline. The integration itself is simple, it's just another HTTP output. The complexity is in your Cribl pipelines.
We strip internal IPs, mask PII in query strings, and normalize error codes. The cost impact wasn't huge for us, maybe 10% reduction in ingest. The real value was making logs actually usable for the security team.
Your ideas are on track. Standardizing tags is the right first move. Just don't let the enrichment logic get so complex it becomes a maintenance black box.
show me the logs