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Actional vs Cribl comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Actional
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
73rd
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
SOA Governance (3rd)
Cribl
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (3rd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (4th), Observability Pipeline Software (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Actional is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cribl is 1.1%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cribl1.1%
Actional0.6%
Other98.3%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

it_user690762 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Provides speed and scaling in the cloud
Provides speed and scaling in the cloud Effortless scaling Never throws away data Takes action now Delivers analytics at the speed of business Automates and speeds up system discovery I would like to see better marketing. We have used this for four years. There are no deployment issues at this…
JigarHirani - PeerSpot reviewer
Splunk Engineer at a recruiting/HR firm with 11-50 employees
Log pipelines have reduced daily data volume and now simplify traffic analysis
Overall, the pipelines and all the features are good with Cribl. The UI is good. Just sometimes, when I actually started using Cribl, I faced the issue where I was not able to connect the nodes. The pipeline is structured in a certain way, then the data will be routed to there, and something of that nature. I was very much confused about their whole products, such as Data Lake and pipelines. It's possible that at that time I didn't take any university courses, which is why I did not know much. But if they can give an intro on how we can connect nodes, or they can provide simple use cases showing what you can do with Cribl, it would help. If you just need to add the source and the destination and pre-build some proper workflow, then it will be easy for new customers to navigate through Cribl.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"This tool has great scaling capabilities, i.e., no limitations."
"From a testing standpoint, ignoring license and cost issues, it's not a bad product."
"I'd highly recommend other organizations to use Cribl Search because it did help us a lot with data processing and everything."
"Cribl brings two main improvements to our organization. The first improvement is cost saving, as we can save a lot of cost by reducing the data. The second important improvement is the data quality, which is also one of the most critical aspects because it filters the data and makes it whatever we want to see."
"My favorite feature of Cribl is just how easy it makes working with the data; it's always been a pain point for us with other solutions, just taking our raw data from the source, transforming and manipulating it into what we need on the SIM side."
"We save about 75% percent of our costs by processing network and firewall logs through Cribl."
"The product's most valuable features include the internal management of events, coding perspective, data processing, and serialization."
"Cribl does a really great job of making sure that no matter how crazy the data set is, we're able to see that data and understand it, and then perform advanced functions against the data to make sure that it is in the ready state for whatever the end place is in which we wish to send it."
"The return on investment with Cribl is huge."
"Implementing Cribl has optimized the infrastructure that we have and is improving the optimization of the services that we are providing."
 

Cons

"My concern is with Automation integration."
"The deployment itself is a bit complicated and the documentation is not very clear."
"I think it is a bit expensive. I heard that this might be expensive."
"The only area that Cribl should focus on is cost-effectiveness."
"However, the endpoint plug-in tool can use some refinement, as it tends to hit system resources and can sometimes be detrimental to systems to the point where it must be turned off and a scan restarted when a user is offline."
"Cribl Stream is good, but I feel they could develop more products apart from Cribl Stream for my use case."
"Currently, we sit down, review the logs, and create regex patterns manually, which can be time-consuming."
"Cribl could improve by offering easier integrations with enterprise products, similar to what Splunk provides."
"One thing I think is that Cribl is very dependent on the packs. If you don't have packs and you need to do things on your own, it's not trivial."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I would not say it is a cheaply priced tool as it has been doing wonders in the market. The tool has been budget-friendly for organizations."
"The product pricing is reasonable compared to other solutions."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
6%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business52
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise36
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cribl?
I find the pricing of Cribl to be cost-efficient because it has helped us save costs for data storage by removing unwanted logs.
What needs improvement with Cribl?
Currently, Cribl is perfectly fine for us, and we have not observed any such issues. However, if we find anything later on, we will document it and share it with you. Cribl could respond more quick...
What is your primary use case for Cribl?
We are using Cribl for log trimming with a vast majority of log sources that have different log patterns or log types. Some logs come in syslog format, some are in JSON, and some are in other HTML ...
 

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