Understand Your Cribl.Cloud Bill and Plan
In Cribl.Cloud, you can use the Billing & Usage page to track your spending and credit consumption monthly by product, and download invoices to export them to other products for trend analysis.
Using this guide, you will be able to:
- Explore your credit usage across all Cribl products.
- Get answers to questions you have about your Cribl.Cloud bill.
- Easily comprehend both your total usage and cost for all the Cribl products you own.
For more information about Cribl.Cloud billing and pricing, see our Cribl Pricing page.
Access Your Plan and Billing Information
The Billing & Usage page is a single source of truth for your Cribl.Cloud Organization billing and usage data.
Log in to Cribl.Cloud.
In the sidebar, select Organization, then Billing & Usage.
Organization sidebar menu
On this page, you can:
- View your active Cribl.Cloud plan.
- Access, download, and export your invoices in CSV and JSON format.
- Understand your billing data at-a-glance.
If you don’t see Organization in the sidebar, select the Organization icon
from the top navigation bar and choose your Organization.
View Credits: Purchased, Used, and Available
In the Credits area, you can see a progress bar that represents your credits purchased, used, and available on your account. Color-coding shows you the breakdown of usage by infrastructure, processing (data throughput), Cribl Search, and Cribl Lake.
View Your Plan
To check the details of the Cribl.Cloud plan that your Organization is running, select the caret under Plan. The information here includes the plan duration period in years and the date it started.
Understand Your Monthly Invoice
Your monthly invoice offers details about the credits you’ve used in the current and previous months, for your products and Connected Environments.
To view your monthly Cribl.Cloud invoice, make sure you’re logged in to your Cribl.Cloud account and you’ve selected your Organization.
From the sidebar, select Billing & Usage.
The Monthly Usage History area is where you’ll find your monthly invoices.
- Each invoice is ordered by Billing Date, newest to oldest.
- The Total Credits Used column is a snapshot of the total credits used by all of the products in your plan.
- You can download an invoice as JSON or CSV from the Actions column.
To view a monthly invoice, select the plus [+] icon.
Here, you’ll see the breakdown of credits consumed by product and infrastructure:
Product | Credit consumers |
|---|---|
| Cribl Stream |
|
| Cribl Edge | Total ingest from Edge Nodes in GB |
| Cribl Search |
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| Cribl Lake | Dataset size volume per GB (on an assumed 30 day data retention schedule) |
Explore Your Data Usage
To view detailed graphs of data usage by product:
- In the sidebar, select Organization, then Billing & Usage.
- Select the Usage tab.
- Select a product from the drop-down to view its graphs (including any active Universal Subscription Connected Environments).
The Stream graph shows credits usage for Data in, Data out, and Infrastructure. To filter the aggregate display down to individual Cribl-managed Groups in Cribl.Cloud, or to all customer-managed (hybrid) Groups, use the Processed Data drop-down.
The Edge graph shows Data Ingest and Data Egress.
The Search graph shows billed Search Compute in CPU hours and Total Compute Costs.
The Lake graph shows Total Usage and Data Usage.
- You can adjust the duration of time for which Cribl processed data over a selectable trailing period of 7 days to 1 year.
- The trend line shows daily averages, and you can hover over data points to pop out details.
- At the right side of each graph is a total for the selected period.
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 finalized invoices, not draft ones.
To download an invoice:
- In the sidebar, select Organization, then Billing & Usage.
- On the Billing & Usage submenu, select Plan and Invoices.
- Under Monthly Usage History, hover over ••• in the Actions column of the invoice you want to download.
- Select Download CSV or Download JSON.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Is Usage Calculated?
For Stream and 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 destinations as you’d like. For Lake, it equates to the amount of compressed data stored. And for Search, it equates to the amount of compute resources used to deliver search results. We charge in compute hours, while 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 Billing & Usage.
- 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.