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Cribl vs SAS Enterprise Guide comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.1
Cribl reduces data ingestion costs and improves efficiency, resulting in significant ROI with up to 70% log reduction.
Sentiment score
8.8
Users experienced improved efficiency, cost savings, better decision-making, reduced manual tasks, and increased productivity with SAS Enterprise Guide.
What we've seen is really an overall reduction of just shy of 40% in our ingest into our SIM platform versus prior to having Cribl.
Senior Security Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
The second thing is that data aggregation, sampling, and reduction that we're able to do of the data, lowering our overall data volume, both traversing the network as well as what's being stored inside of our final solutions.
Director, Performance Engineering at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
In terms of reduction, we were able to save almost ~40% of our total cost.
Sr. Lead Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I have seen investment using SAS Enterprise Guide as it has some capabilities which require very little manpower, and also scheduling jobs and flows reduces human intervention.
Biostatistician at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.4
Cribl's customer service is praised for its expertise, though some users seek quicker response times and better understanding of needs.
Sentiment score
9.5
SAS Enterprise Guide support receives mixed reviews, with users often favoring community forums or external assistance for solutions.
They had extensive expertise with the product and were able to facilitate everything we needed.
Security Consultant at Integrity360
Usually, within an hour, we get a response, and we are able to work with them back and forth until we resolve the issues.
Engineering Fellow at Pegasystems
Sometimes by hearing the problem itself, they will know what the solution is, and they will let us know how to resolve it, and we do it immediately.
Senior Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The customer support of SAS is always outstanding.
Biostatistician at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
Cribl is praised for scalable, flexible data management, efficiently integrating diverse sources while minimizing operational complexity and maintaining performance.
Sentiment score
9.0
SAS Enterprise Guide is highly scalable, user-friendly, and efficiently handles large data, benefiting diverse professionals across organizations.
The infrastructure behind Cribl Search is also scalable as it uses a CPU and just spawns horizontally more instances as it demands and requires.
Engineering Fellow at Pegasystems
Compared to other SIEM tools I use, any slight change on the operating system end impacts a lot on our SIEM tools and other things, but Cribl performs well in that regard.
Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Cribl performs effectively across both market segments.
Principal at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
SAS Enterprise Guide is highly scalable.
Biostatistician at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Cribl is praised for reliability and scalability, though some users face occasional performance issues and downtimes.
Sentiment score
5.5
SAS Enterprise Guide is stable, though users occasionally face connection issues, often due to server constraints or outdated updates.
Migrating from those SC4S servers to Cribl worker nodes has truly been a game-changer.
Sr. Lead Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Regarding scalability, we started with zero servers and have around 285 servers now.
Senior Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Cribl is designed to deal with certain kinds of loads and is not designed to handle any scenario in the market.
Security Delivery Senior Analyst at Accenture
 

Room For Improvement

Cribl needs improved performance, better Git integration, and enhanced usability to address user experience and scalability concerns.
Users seek improved charting, machine learning, interface, stability, big data support, open-source integration, and better community resources.
A more stringent role-based access control feature would enhance security and allow granular control over what users can see and access.
Manager for Monitoring and Logging at Velera
When passing query logs or DNS logs, if certain malicious query patterns need to be identified or if fast-flux attacks are happening, Cribl can report that and those would definitely be a plus for them.
Product Manager at UnDisclosed
I would advise others looking to implement Cribl that if they are evolving Cribl Search, it would be very interesting to see more capability, more flexibility, and more ways to share the data similar to Splunk.
Senior Manager at Deloitte
Some data visualization tools may be improved by SAS Enterprise Guide.
Biostatistician at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
 

Setup Cost

Cribl offers cost-effective pricing and efficient large data handling, attracting enterprises despite slightly higher costs than competitors.
SAS Enterprise Guide is expensive with high initial and renewal fees, but costs are seen as justified by performance.
Over time, the licensing cost has increased.
SIEM Engineer at National Australia Bank (NAB)
It was cheaper than the Splunk license.
Security Engineering Programme Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Splunk is more expensive, and Cribl appears to be more affordable.
Principal at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Cribl offers intuitive UI, real-time data transformation, seamless integration, cost savings, flexible processing, and versatile deployment for efficient data management.
SAS Enterprise Guide is user-friendly, supports complex analytics with minimal coding, and is ideal for business users and analysts.
The data reduction and preprocessing capabilities make Cribl really unique.
Security Consultant at Integrity360
Cribl has a feature called JSON Unroll or Unroll function that allows you to differentiate the events; each event will come ingested as a single log instead of piling it up with multiple events.
Security Engineer at Tecplix
The Cribl UI is very simple and easy to use, particularly when working with data from various sources; it makes it very easy to create pipelines, add complex logic to those pipelines, and then gives you a preview of what your data looks like before applying that pipeline and what you get after.
Senior Security Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
The best feature of SAS Enterprise Guide is scheduling jobs and flows.
Biostatistician at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
 

Categories and Ranking

Cribl
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (6th), Log Management (3rd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (5th), Observability Pipeline Software (1st)
SAS Enterprise Guide
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
8.2
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Data Preparation Tools (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Cribl and SAS Enterprise Guide aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Cribl is designed for Observability Pipeline Software and holds a mindshare of 36.0%, down 45.2% compared to last year.
SAS Enterprise Guide, on the other hand, focuses on Data Preparation Tools, holds 7.7% mindshare, down 15.8% since last year.
Observability Pipeline Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cribl36.0%
Onum11.0%
BindPlane OP9.6%
Other43.4%
Observability Pipeline Software
Data Preparation Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAS Enterprise Guide7.7%
Alteryx Designer Cloud8.5%
Alteryx8.1%
Other75.7%
Data Preparation Tools
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Namanjbaraiya Baru - PeerSpot reviewer
Biostatistician at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
Automated scheduling has transformed clinical analysis workflows and saves significant time
The best feature of SAS Enterprise Guide is scheduling jobs and flows. The scheduling jobs and flows feature stands out to me because of its ease of use and reliability, as I have to perform so many tasks. By scheduling jobs and code, it makes tasks much easier for me. By using SAS Enterprise Guide, which I currently use after previously using SAS 9.4, the time-saving feature of scheduling jobs and code and performing statistical analysis more advanced along with some low-code features makes our timeline very easy to achieve. In SAS Enterprise Guide, I also use data management and statistical analysis, and the statistical analysis accuracy along with data management, data cleaning, and data performing is very good.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
6%
Government
5%
Financial Services Firm
24%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business50
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise35
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise16
 

Questions from the Community

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 ...
What needs improvement with SAS Enterprise Guide?
Some data visualization tools may be improved by SAS Enterprise Guide. The interface of SAS Enterprise Guide is good, and I would not add anything else about the needed improvements.
What is your primary use case for SAS Enterprise Guide?
My main use case for SAS Enterprise Guide is performing statistical analysis, scheduling job codes, and scheduling flows. I use SAS Enterprise Guide for performing statistical analysis on clinical ...
What advice do you have for others considering SAS Enterprise Guide?
I suggest others go through SAS training before utilizing SAS Enterprise Guide because it is far more advanced than one might initially think. I want to give one piece of advice to all SAS 9.4 user...
 

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Sample Customers

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