Hey everyone! I'm new here but have been working with WordPress and Shopify setups for small businesses for a while. Now I'm helping with a project that involves collecting logs and metrics from a *lot* of remote retail locations—we're talking about 500+ small branch offices.
My team is looking at Cribl to handle this data collection. The remote sites have limited IT staff and bandwidth, so we need something lightweight and easy to manage centrally.
I'm trying to understand the real-world use case: would **Cribl Stream** at the central collector be enough, or do we absolutely need **Cribl Edge** deployed at every single branch? The main goals are to reduce bandwidth costs, standardize the data format before it hits our analytics, and keep management simple.
Has anyone tackled a similar scale with remote offices? What were the key factors in your decision? Any gotchas to watch for? Appreciate any insights you can share! 😊