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WitFoo and Cribl
Cribl Stream and WitFoo Conductor both sit between your sources and your destinations. Conductor accepts IT messages from any source with no rules to write, adds what each message never said, and delivers the result to Elastic, your SIEM, or cloud object storage, several at once, at one published price per appliance.
The short answer
Conductor is a pipeline for all IT messages, not only security events. Adaptive Parsing comes with parsers WitFoo writes and maintains, so there are no parsers or rules for you to write before data flows, and nothing for you to rewrite when a vendor changes its log layout.
It understands what it carries. Empathetic Processing works the way a good listener does: Conductor reads what each message says, then why it was sent, and adds what the message never carried, starting with what kind of event it is. STIX threat intelligence (Pro and Max) adds the ATT&CK techniques its feeds map to matching records, and the Redaction Processor can replace sensitive values with tokens before records are exported.
It delivers to the destinations you use, several at once: Elastic and OpenSearch, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, syslog over UDP, and cloud object storage. And it meters nothing. On Cribl.Cloud, Cribl Stream charges for data ingest and the infrastructure provisioned to process it; Conductor is $15,000 per appliance per year to start, with unlimited data rates in every tier.
What WitFoo Conductor adds
What Conductor does between your sources and your destinations.
No rules to write
Adaptive Parsing reads vendor formats into one schema with no regular expressions, parsers, or rules for you to write, so Conductor starts working without a pipeline to assemble. When a vendor changes its log layout, WitFoo updates the parsers, not your team.
Learn more →Enrichment by inference
Step one is the literal translation. Step two reads between the lines: as it reads each message, Conductor classifies what the event is, a field the message never carried, so a client probing a web server for pages it does not serve arrives labeled as reconnaissance. On Pro and Max, STIX matches add the ATT&CK techniques their feeds map.
Learn more →Empathetic Processing
What a good listener does, in four steps: understand what each signal says, understand why it was sent, track the relationships signals establish over time, and shape what is said for whoever, or whatever, is listening. Conductor does the listening at the edge: it reads and classifies each message and collapses repeats into one record before delivery. WitFoo Analytics and Reporter take the other two steps.
Learn more →STIX threat intelligence
On Pro and Max, Conductor pulls STIX indicators from the TAXII feeds you choose, matches them as data flows, and tags each matching record with the matched indicator and, when the feed maps one, its ATT&CK technique, before export. The match arrives in your SIEM with the structured record.
Learn more →Redaction before export
The Redaction Processor replaces sensitive values in the fields you choose with tokens before records are exported: built-in patterns for card numbers, US Social Security numbers, email addresses, AWS keys, JWTs, PEM private keys, and IBANs, plus your own expressions. It runs after deduplication, and the same value always becomes the same token on an appliance, so correlation still works downstream.
Delivers where you need it
Conductor ships to the outputs you use, several at once: Elastic (Elasticsearch) and OpenSearch, Splunk through the HTTP Event Collector, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, LevelBlue USM Anywhere, syslog over UDP, S3-compatible object storage, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, SCP, and WitFoo Analytics.
Learn more →Every IT message
Conductor accepts IT messages from any source, security tools or not, and delivers the records it parses to your destinations. Security understanding is what it adds to each record, not a limit on what it accepts.
Runs wherever the data is
On premises, in a hypervisor, on bare metal, or in your own cloud account, including fully air-gapped. Diagnostics and threat-intelligence lookups to WitFoo are on by default and can be switched off or blocked at the network.
Part of the platform
The same pipeline feeds WitFoo Analytics and Reporter when you want investigation, response, and reporting on the data it delivers.
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The two models, question by question
Every Cribl claim below is quoted from Cribl’s own documentation, with a link. None of them is a price. Competitor statements checked 13 October 2026.
What is metered?
WitFoo Conductor
Nothing per-volume. One annual fee per appliance, with unlimited data rates in every tier.
Cribl Stream
On Cribl.Cloud, two things: data ingest, and the infrastructure provisioned to process it.
“Cribl Stream charges for data ingest plus the infrastructure resources needed for processing your data.”
Does cost accrue when no data is flowing?
WitFoo Conductor
No. The annual fee does not move with throughput.
Cribl Stream
For Cribl-managed Cloud Workers, yes — the infrastructure charge starts when the Worker Group is provisioned.
“Cribl will draw down your Cribl.Cloud credits to cover the base cost of maintaining the infrastructure, as well as your normal cost for ingested data. When you create a Workspace, Cribl provisions Workers for you in the default Worker Group, but you can deprovision the Worker Group to control infrastructure costs.”
Is budget committed up front?
WitFoo Conductor
An annual fee per appliance. No prepaid pool and nothing to forfeit.
Cribl Stream
Credits are purchased as a pool and drawn down. New and renewing Cloud customers are subject to minimum commitment and rollover terms, with rollover capped.
“New and renewing Cloud customers will be subject to minimum commitment and credit rollover terms. At the end of each year, no more than 20% of the credits purchased for that year may be rolled over into a new subscription term.”
What do you build to process data?
WitFoo Conductor
No rules or pipelines. Adaptive Parsing comes with parsers WitFoo maintains, and deduplication and enrichment run without rules to write. You choose the destinations.
Cribl Stream
Pipelines that transform events, with Routes that normally select which events reach each Pipeline.
“Before incoming events are transformed by a processing Pipeline, Cribl Stream uses a set of filters to first select a subset of events to deliver to the correct Pipeline. This selection is normally made via Routes.”
Why teams choose WitFoo Conductor
Why teams put Conductor in front of the tools they already run.
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Your budget has to be knowable a year ahead. Published list prices, one annual fee per appliance, and unlimited data rates in every tier: no ingest meter, no infrastructure meter, and no credit pool to forfeit. A larger estate runs more appliances and pays for appliances, not for gigabytes.
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Your team should not be maintaining parsers or rules. WitFoo maintains the parsers and the integrations, and updates them when a vendor changes its formats.
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You want context in the record, not only the record. Inferred fields travel with the data in every structured record Conductor delivers, and on Pro and Max so do STIX matches and their ATT&CK techniques.
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You want sensitive values replaced before they reach downstream tools. The Redaction Processor runs on the appliance, before export.
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You need a disconnected or sovereign deployment. Conductor runs fully air-gapped, with diagnostics and threat-intelligence lookups on by default that can be switched off or blocked at the network.
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You are buying several appliances, or you are government, nonprofit, or education. Volume discounts apply automatically per product line, and the public-sector discount stacks on the order total.
Questions people actually ask
Is WitFoo Conductor an alternative to Cribl Stream?
Yes. Both sit between your sources and your destinations. Conductor accepts IT messages from any source with no rules to write, adds enrichment by inference and, on Pro and Max, STIX threat intelligence, can replace sensitive values with tokens before export, and delivers to Elastic, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and other destinations. It costs a flat annual fee per appliance with unlimited data rates, and it can sit in front of the SIEM you already own.
Does Conductor only handle security data?
No. Conductor accepts IT messages from any source, security tools or not, and delivers the records it parses to your destinations. Security understanding is what it adds to each record, not a limit on what it accepts.
Do I have to write rules or build pipelines in Conductor?
No. Adaptive Parsing reads vendor formats into one schema with no regular expressions, parsers, or rules for you to write, and WitFoo updates the parsers when a vendor changes its log layout. Deduplication and enrichment run without rules to write. You choose where the data goes.
Where can Conductor send data?
To Elastic (Elasticsearch) and OpenSearch, Splunk through the HTTP Event Collector, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, LevelBlue USM Anywhere, syslog over UDP, S3-compatible object storage, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, SCP, and WitFoo Analytics. You can send to several at once.
How does Conductor enrich data?
By inference and by threat intelligence. As it reads each message, Conductor classifies what the event is, a field the message never carried. On Pro and Max it also matches STIX indicators from the TAXII feeds you choose and tags each matching record, with the ATT&CK technique when the feed maps one, before export.
Can Conductor redact sensitive data before it leaves?
Yes. The Redaction Processor replaces sensitive values in the fields you choose, such as card numbers, US Social Security numbers, email addresses, AWS keys, and PEM private keys, with tokens before records are exported, using built-in patterns plus your own expressions. The same value always becomes the same token on an appliance, so correlation still works downstream.
What is the difference between Cribl pricing and WitFoo pricing?
On Cribl.Cloud, Cribl Stream meters data ingested and the infrastructure provisioned to process it. Cribl documents that it draws down credits “to cover the base cost of maintaining the infrastructure, as well as your normal cost for ingested data”, and credits are bought as a pool up front with rollover capped. WitFoo meters nothing: one published annual fee per appliance, unlimited data rates in every tier.
Our prices are on the website.
Every tier, every product, no form in front of them. Conductor starts at $15,000 per appliance per year with unlimited data rates, and it delivers to the SIEM you already own.