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Universal Subscription

Connecting your on-prem Cribl Edge to Cribl.Cloud simplifies licensing and billing. Universal Subscription lets you manage all on-prem environment costs from a single Cribl.Cloud interface, eliminating the need for separate on-prem licenses. This streamlines administration and provides a unified view of your Cribl Edge usage and spending. For details, see Connect On-Prem Leaders to Cribl.Cloud.

For full access to Connected Environments, upgrade Cribl Edge to 4.8.2 or newer.

The Connected Environments UI
The Connected Environments UI

This replaces the on-prem license, and gives you the flexibility to maintain your on-prem deployments without managing multiple licenses and tracking spend across environments.

An on-prem Cribl Edge environment consists of at least one Leader Node (the control plane) and one or more Fleets.

Connecting your on-prem Leader to Cribl.Cloud allows you to:

  • Monitor credit consumption for each of your on-prem Cribl Edge environments from one user interface.
  • Create a connection between the Cribl Edge on-prem Leader and the Cribl.Cloud Leader, which receives billing and usage metrics from the on-prem Leader.

For details, see Connecting On-Prem Leaders to Cribl.Cloud.

Limitations of the Universal Subscription Feature
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Connecting environments has some usage limitations:

  • The Universal Subscription feature is available on Cribl.Cloud with certain plan/license tiers. For details, see Pricing.
  • Single-instance deployments of Cribl Edge aren’t eligible for a Universal Subscription.
  • The on-prem Leader in your Distributed deployment must be running Cribl Edge 4.8.2 or newer.

Explore Credit Consumption for Connected Environments
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Now that you have a successful connection to your Cribl.Cloud Organization, you can view the incoming usage data and credit consumption for your on-prem and Cloud deployments of Cribl Edge. You must be an Organization Owner to view this data.

For more information on Cribl.Cloud billing, go to the Cloud Billing and Usage page.

View Usage Data
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  1. In the sidebar, select Organization, then Billing & Usage.
  2. On the Billing & Usage submenu, select Usage.
  3. Select the product drop-down to choose a Connected Deployment of Cribl Edge.

On this page, you can view GB in and GB out for the connected environment.

View Credit Consumption
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  1. In the sidebar, select Organization, then Billing & Usage.
  2. On the Billing & Usage submenu, select Plan and Invoices.
  3. In Monthly Usage History, expand the Billing Date and scroll to the Connected Environments table.

Here, you will see each on-prem environment that is connected to this Cribl.Cloud Organization, and the credits each environment is consuming.