Takeaways from Cribl (Private) Fireside Chat

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Takeaways from Cribl (Private) Fireside Chat

June 18, 2026

Summary of Q&A:

Can you give us a look into Cribl's financial model and near-term

trajectory?

●Cribl reported total ARR above $330M, growing at more than 40% y/y,

and management indicated the company beat all internal projections

in F1Q.

●The customer base exceeds 1,400, with >160 customers at >$500K

ARR (>50% y/y growth), and NRR >120%, reflecting strong upmarket

traction.

●600 multi-product customers (up >70% y/y), with new products Search,

Lake, Edge, and Guard all living on the cloud platform under a

consumption-based model.

●Cloud ARR is >$140M (>70% y/y), representing 43% of total ARR and

growing as a share of the mix, with on-prem persisting for customers

with more rigid compliance requirements.

●Cribl carries $280M of cash on the balance sheet, guiding FCF burn of

$45-50M this year, with management expecting cash flow positivity by

4Q and single-digit positive FCF the following year.

Can you walk us through the Cribl platform architecture and what

differentiates it?

●Stream is Cribl's flagship product, ingesting and routing data across a

pipeline that supports >500,000 nodes, with Lake and Search layered

on top as complementary capabilities.

●Search allows customers to query data in place without indexing or

moving it, enabling investigation to begin immediately upon ingest.

○Direct ingest to either Search or Lake is a newer capability,

shortening the path from data source to analysis.

●The architecture allows human context from tools like Jira, ServiceNow,

Slack, GitLab, and GitHub to be married with machine data, enabling

richer interaction with telemetry.

●An App layer sitting above the platform is in progress, designed to

surface data to both humans and AI agents across use cases including