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FinOps Center

Track your credit usage and billing across all Cribl products.


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.

For more information about Cribl.Cloud billing and pricing, see our Cribl Pricing page.

Access Your Billing Information

The FinOps Center page is a single source of truth for your Cribl.Cloud Organization billing and usage data. To access your credits usage and invoice:

  • From the Cribl home page, select Organization from the sidebar, then select FinOps Center.

  • From within a product, select the top bar’s Products button, then select Cribl > Organization. From the resulting sidebar, select FinOps Center.

Organization sidebar menu
Organization sidebar menu

On the FinOps Center page, you can:

  • Access, download, and export your invoices in CSV and JSON format.
  • Understand your billing data at a glance.

Explore the FinOps Center

Select the Usage Overview tab for a holistic view.

Explore the Cribl FinOps Center
Explore the Cribl FinOps Center
CalloutAreaDescription
ATotal credits consumptionView an overview of your credits for the current active contract. Twirl open the arrow to reveal a credit ledger, including any credits that rolled over from your last contract period.
BCumulative credit consumptionView a column chart containing each month’s credit consumption across all products.
CContract renewal indicatorThe 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.
DDate rangeUse the date range selector to view usage and credits consumed in a specific date and time period.
ETotal acquired creditsThe horizontal red line indicates total acquired credits in relation to consumed credits, including refunds and rollovers.
FMonthly usageView a column chart containing monthly usage by product. Hover over each month to view details.
GPer product consumptionFind detailed, per-product credit consumption information in this section. Expand a product name for the single product usage view.
HProduct usage summaryView monthly usage for the expanded product.
ISparklinesView usage changes at-a-glance with the per-product sparkline chart.

Understand Your Monthly Invoice

The monthly invoice offers details about the subscription quota and total compute costs you have incurred in the current and previous months, along with a cost item breakdown for more granularity.

Monthly invoice information
Monthly invoice information

To view your monthly Cribl invoice, make sure you’re logged in to your Cribl account and you’ve selected your Organization.

  1. From the sidebar, select FinOps Center.

  2. 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 menu.
  3. To view the details of each monthly invoice, select the plus [+] button.

Here, you’ll see the breakdown of credits consumed by product and infrastructure:

Product
Cost item
Cribl Search
  • Search Subscription (flat-rate pricing)
  • Search Total Compute (CPU x Hours)
Cribl LakeCribl Lake Total Storage (dataset size volume per GB on an assumed 30 day data retention schedule)
Cribl Stream
  • Cloud Worker Group Net Data Ingest
  • Hybrid Workers GBs Received
  • Connected Stream GB In (on-prem Leaders that are passing usage data to Cribl.Cloud)
Cribl Edge
  • Edge Node GBs Ingress
  • Connected Edge GBs In

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:

  1. In the sidebar, select Organization, then FinOps Center.
  2. On the FinOps Center submenu, select Invoices.
  3. Hover over Actions for the invoice you want to download.
  4. Select Download CSV or Download JSON.

Frequently Asked Questions

Here are answers to some common questions about usage and billing:

How Is Usage Calculated?

For Cribl Search, your total spend equates to the amount of compute resources used to deliver search results. We charge in compute hours, but most searches take less than a second.

For Cribl Lake, usage equates to the amount of compressed data stored.

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, but you never pay for egress, so you can send your processed data to as many receivers as you’d like.

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) consumes 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:

ProductGeneral Calculation
Cribl Stream
Ingest pricing (infrastructure pricing based on region):
  • 0.32 Credits/GB per Cloud Worker
  • 0.26 Credits/GB per Hybrid Worker
Cribl EdgeIngest pricing:
  • 0.21 Credits/GB per Edge Node
Cribl SearchCompute pricing:
  • 1 Credit per CPU hour
If a Search is entirely satisfied by one or more Lakehouses, you are not billed Search CPU hours.
Cribl LakeStorage pricing based on 30-day retention:
  • .05 Credits/GB if Cloud Worker is managed by Cribl
  • .02 Credits/BG if self-managed

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.