Why Enterprises Choose Axoflow Platform vs. Cribl

Ready to explore Cribl alternatives? Learn why enterprises choose Axoflow Platform – built by the creators of syslog-ng – over Cribl Stream.
Fast & easy setup to achieve reduced, high quality data, without coding.
Getting rid of manually maintained configuration of security data pipelines.
Real cost savings: linear pricing and 12.5x better performance mean cost savings achieved by data reduction actually stay with them.

AI Theater? It’s Still Your Job

Axoflow curates, parses, and routes—no copilots, no approvals, no guessing.
Cribl’s Copilot promises “human-in-the-loop” oversight—but that just means you’re still doing the work. Whether logic is hand-written or AI-suggested, you still review, test, and maintain it. Axoflow takes ownership of the transformation process end-to-end: source-aware, schema-aligned, and production-ready—automatically. What’s more, you still retain control and visibility during the process.

Why maintain pipelines for logs everyone already understands?

With Axoflow, telemetry from Palo Alto, Okta, or CrowdStrike doesn’t need new logic. It just works. That’s real automation.

How Axoflow Brings Real Cost Savings

Less Infrastructure Cost

12.5x better performance means drastically fewer servers and less overhead.

Linear Pricing Structure

Unlike Cribl’s volume-based pricing, you keep more of your data reduction savings.

Comparison

Axoflow vs. Cribl

See full comparison of how Axoflow Platform an automated alternative to Cribl Stream, stands out in key areas:

Feature
Axoflow Platform
Cribl Stream
Performance
Data throughput with reduction
5x better
Up to 12.5x
better performance
2 TB/day/core
400 GB/day/core
Data throughput without reduction
12.5x better
5 TB/day/core
400 GB/day/core
Data curation, reduction
Automatic data identification, source-typing
Automatic inventory
Automatic data parsing
manual oversight needed
Automatic reduction
manual oversight needed
Data routing
Based on dynamic declarative policies
AI-generated static pipelines
Customer-specific rules and custom code
Data Insights
Out-of-the-box pipeline health
Out-of-the-box identification and analytics of data flows
Alerting
Setup and maintenance
Automatic data discovery
Automatic updates to data field changes
No complicated onboarding or training needed for users
Schema Drift Management

Automatic alignment

Manual updates required

Automatic pipeline maintenance
Pricing
Pricing Structure
Linear, predictable
Consumption-based credit system, complex
Other
Foundation
Built on syslog-ng and OpenTelemetry
Not built on open source project
Security certifications
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001
Choose Axoflow for Automatically reduced, high-quality data, and true cost savings!

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50%

reduction
in SIEM ingestion costs

90%

less
infrastructure overhead
Up to

85%

lower MTTR