This feature requires an Enterprise Plan.

If you have multiple instances of @{product} on-prem, you’re likely managing multiple licenses. Instead of letting license management run your life, you can take advantage of the Universal Subscription feature. Universal Subscription lets you manage an existing on-prem license with Cribl.Cloud credits.

To get started, connect your on-prem Leader to your Cribl.Cloud Leader to send billing data payloads. Once your environments are connected, you can use the FinOps Center to get a unified, all-product view of your @{product} usage and spending.

This replaces an 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 @{product} environment consists of at least one Leader Node (the control plane) and one or more @{group}s.

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

• Monitor credit consumption for each of your on-prem @{product} environments from one user interface.
• Create a billing- and usage-based connection between the @{product} on-prem Leader and the Cribl.Cloud Leader, which receives metrics from the on-prem Leader. For information about the data payloads, visit Data Payloads for Connected Environments.

Configure Connected Environments

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For the setup procedure, go to How to Connect On-Prem Leaders to Cribl.Cloud, then come back here to explore how to view credit and usage data for your on-prem Connected Environments.

Full access to Connected Environments requires you to upgrade @{product} to 4.8.2 or newer.

Explore Credit Consumption for Connected Environments

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Once you set up a Connected Environment, you can view the incoming usage data and credit consumption for your on-prem and Cloud deployments of @{product}. You must be an Organization Owner to view this data.

For more information on Cribl.Cloud billing, go to the FinOps Center page.

View Usage Data

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1. In the sidebar, select Organization, then FinOps Center.
2. Select Usage Overview.
3. Go to Per Product Consumption and expand either Cribl Edge or Cribl Stream.
4. Find Connected < Product > GBs In.

View Credit Consumption

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1. In the sidebar, select Organization, then FinOps Center.
2. On the FinOps Center submenu, select Invoices.
3. Select a month to expand the cost items. Select Stream or Edge.
4. View Connected < Product > GBs In usage and cost.

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

Limitations of the Universal Subscription Feature

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Connected Environments has some usage limitations:

• The Connected Environments feature is available only on Enterprise Cribl.Cloud plans. For Enterprise plan details, see Pricing.
• Single-instance deployments of @{product} aren’t eligible for a Universal Subscription.
• The Distributed deployment on-prem Leader must be running @{product} 4.8.2 or newer.