FinOps Center
The Cribl FinOps Center is designed to simplify the process of tracking your product usage and credit consumption. You can also download finalized invoices and export them to external spend analysis products.
With the FinOps Center, you can:
- Explore credit usage across all Cribl products, including credit refunds and rollovers.
- Narrow down usage to a specific time frame using the custom time picker.
- View contract renewal date against usage.
- Get answers to questions you have about your bill.
- Easily comprehend both your total usage and cost for all the Cribl products you own, including Connected Environments and hybrid Fleets.
For more information about Cribl.Cloud billing and pricing, see our Cribl Pricing page.
Access Your Billing Information
The FinOps Center page is the single source of truth for your Cribl.Cloud Organization billing and usage data.
Log in to Cribl.Cloud.
In the sidebar, select Organization, then FinOps Center.
Organization sidebar menu
If you don’t see Organization in the sidebar, select the Organization icon
from the top navigation bar and choose your Organization.
Explore the FinOps Center
Select the Usage Overview tab for a holistic view.
| Callout | Area | Description |
|---|---|---|
| A | Total credits consumption | View an overview of your credits for the current active contract. Expand the arrow to reveal a credit ledger, including any credits that rolled over from your last contract period. |
| B | Cumulative credit consumption | View a column chart containing each month’s credit consumption across all products. |
| C | Contract renewal indicator | The vertical grey line indicates the point at which your Cribl contract was renewed. Because credits are consumed on a per-contract basis, you might see a drop in consumed credits directly after the renewal indicator, even if it is mid-month. |
| D | Date range | Use the date range selector to view usage and credits consumed in a specific date and time period. |
| E | Total acquired credits | The horizontal red line indicates total acquired credits in relation to consumed credits, including refunds and rollovers. |
| F | Monthly usage | View a column chart containing monthly usage by product. Hover over each month to view details. |
| G | Per product consumption | Find detailed, per-product credit consumption information in this section. Expand a product name for the single product usage view. |
| H | Product usage summary | View monthly usage for the expanded product. |
| I | Sparklines | View usage changes at-a-glance with the per-product sparkline chart. |
Understand Your Monthly Invoice
Your invoice offers details about the usage and costs you have incurred in the current and previous months for your products and Connected Environments, along with a cost item breakdown for more granularity.
To view your monthly Cribl invoice, make sure you’re logged in to your Cribl.Cloud account and you’ve selected your Organization.
From the sidebar, select FinOps Center.
The Invoices tab is where you’ll find your monthly invoices.
- Each invoice is ordered by month, most recent to oldest.
- The invoice status will be Draft for the current month until your billing period ends, as defined in your contract.
- You can download Final invoices as JSON or CSV using the Actions
menu.
To view the details of each monthly invoice, expand the cost item.
Here, you’ll see the breakdown of credits consumed by product and infrastructure:
Product | Cost item |
|---|---|
| Cribl Stream |
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| Cribl Edge |
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| Cribl Search |
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| Cribl Lake | Cribl Lake Total Storage (dataset size volume per GB on an assumed 30 day data retention schedule) |
| Infrastructure | Cribl.Cloud Worker Group infrastructure usage in hours, per MB/s. |
Download Invoices
You can download your monthly Cribl.Cloud invoices as CSV or JSON files. Then, use them in external tools to help with budget planning and analytics or store them for historical purposes.
You can only download invoices with a Final status. Draft invoices can’t be downloaded.
To download an invoice:
- In the sidebar, select Organization, then FinOps Center.
- Select the Invoices tab.
- Hover over Actions
for the invoice you want to download.
- Select Download CSV or Download JSON.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Is Usage Calculated?
For Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge, your total spend equates to data ingest plus the infrastructure resources needed for processing your data. We charge on ingress (data in), but you never pay for egress (data out), so you can send your processed data to as many receivers as you’d like.
For Cribl Lake, usage equates to the amount of compressed data stored. And for Cribl Search, usage equates to the amount of compute resources used to deliver search results. We charge in compute hours, and most searches take less than a second.
How Is Cost Calculated?
In Cribl.Cloud, one credit equals one US dollar. Each of our four products (Cribl Stream, Cribl Edge, Cribl Lake, Cribl Search) consume credits at a different rate. For a detailed explanation, see our Cribl Pricing Guide or contact Cribl Sales.
Here’s a quick summary of Cribl.Cloud credit consumption:
Product | General Calculation |
|---|---|
| Stream | Ingest pricing (infrastructure pricing based on region):
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| Edge | Ingest pricing:
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| Search | Compute pricing:
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| Lake | Storage pricing based on 30-day retention:
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Where Can I View Connected Environment Consumption On My Bill?
Make sure you’re logged in to your Cribl.Cloud account.
- Navigate to Organization, then FinOps Center.
- Under the Monthly Usage History area, expand a finalized invoice, then select Stream or Edge.
- If you have Connected Environments usage, you’ll see it listed here as Connected Stream GBs In or Connected Edge GBs In.
How Often Is Credit Data Refreshed in Cribl.Cloud?
Cribl.Cloud refreshes credit data every five minutes to provide you with the most accurate information about your usage and cost.