Turn Structured Data into Intelligent Action with Cribl and Tines

Turn Structured Data into Intelligent Action with Cribl and Tines 

IT and security teams are stuck between two bad options: over-automate on noisy, incomplete data and risk eroding trust, or avoid automation and drown in manual triage. With surging data volumes and increasingly complex stacks, both choices drive alert fatigue, longer MTTD/MTTR, and analyst burnout. 

Tines and Cribl offer an alternative vision. Together, they empower customers to collect, shape and route clean and trusted data, then operationalize it with intelligent workflows so you can automate confidently, respond faster, and control both operational and storage costs. And no vendor lock-in. 

With Tines and Cribl, IT and security teams benefit from flexible data management and automation strategies that scale with the environment. And all with minimal manual effort.

Why traditional approaches don’t scale 

Traditional approaches to data management and security operations (SecOps) are floundering in the face of surging data volumes. From IoT and edge, to dynamic cloud-native architectures and AI systems, digital transformation continues its relentless march forward. And it’s not just the volume but variety of data that complicates IT and security operations. Teams must manage logs, metrics, and events across heterogeneous cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments.

Sophisticated threats require a thorough documentation strategy, but this often results in alert overload, forcing teams to choose between over-automating on noisy data or avoiding automation altogether. Neither is ideal. The former erodes analyst trust and could increase false positives/negatives, while the latter results in manual triage which slows response times and increases the risk of missed incidents.

These challenges are often compounded by complex, cross-tool correlation and inconsistent processes. They further reduce operational efficiency, lengthen MTTD/MTTR, and increase the analyst workload. As far back as 2023, Tines reported that spending time on manual work was the most frustrating part of the job for SecOps specialists. And that 63% of practitioners experienced some level of burnout as a result. 

Those figures are unlikely to improve without a more efficient approach to IT and security operations.

The process depends on who’s available, how fast they can find context, and whether they have the right permissions to act.

The result? Delays pile up while the system continues to degrade.

Tines + Cribl: A powerful combination 

Tines and Cribl can deliver that approach. Each brings a powerful and complementary set of capabilities to the table:

Cribl:

• Collects, shapes, and routes telemetry data from any source to any destination, across security and IT stacks, so downstream tools receive only the most relevant, high-quality events 

• Reduces noise, improves data quality, and gives teams fine-grained control over what gets stored where, helping keep SIEM and data lake costs in check

• Removes vendor lock-in with an open, flexible data engine that adapts to any environment — on-prem, cloud, or hybrid

Tines:

• Empowers the creation of intelligent workflows—comprised of rules-based automation, AI, and human-led steps—connecting data, tools, and people

• Orchestrates alerts, investigations, and remediation

• Works across any solution with an API, connecting your entire stack with ease

When you combine Cribl and Tines, your workflows start with the raw telemetry coming from your existing tools and infrastructure, and Cribl helps teams normalize and enrich that data with the right context before it goes anywhere downstream. Cribl then routes only that clean, contextualized data into Tines, where intelligent workflows use it to drive fast, confident, and safe automation across your environment.

Where Tines and Cribl shine: Key use cases 

Pre-built Tines workflows help IT and security teams get a fast start at turning their Cribl data into orchestrated action. Alongside them sit countless templates, which act like ready-to-use building blocks for teams to design their own workflows. Common use cases include:

Security operations enhancement 

Security teams deal with massive alert volume, but only a fraction of those signals deserve action. By starting with clean, enriched telemetry and using it to drive consistent investigation and response workflows, teams reduce false positives, accelerate MTTD and MTTR, and ease analyst fatigue.

Common workflows include: 

• Log processing & alert automation

• SIEM optimization

• Threat intelligence integration
  
  

Data pipeline orchestration 

Data is most valuable when it drives action. Event-driven workflows built on structured, contextualized data allow teams to route, enrich, and act on information in real time instead of relying on manual follow-up.

Common workflows include: 

• Event-driven workflows

• Data transformation & enrichment

• Conditional data routing

Update a lookup file in Cribl

Use Tines and Cribl together to update a lookup file in Cribl seamlessly. Through a Tines Page or Send to Story action, IP addresses can be added to a Cribl lookup list, where they can be used in searches or filtering rules—allowing teammates and automated workflows to exclude known good IPs from future matches.

Incident response automation 

Fast response depends on both speed and trust in the data behind each decision. Starting with high-confidence signals allows response workflows to coordinate enrichment, approvals, and remediation without unnecessary handoffs or guesswork.

Common workflows include: 

• Alert triage

• Contextual enrichment

• Remediation workflows

Replay Data with Cribl into Elastic Security and Isolate Hosts Using Elastic Agent

Use Tines and Cribl to replay data into a SIEM like Elastic Security and automate response actions. A Tines workflow can receive a webhook from Elastic to create and link a SIEM case, enrich IP data with context and location, query Elasticsearch for related activity, and guide the decision to isolate a host using Elastic Agent.

IT operations 

As environments grow more complex, manual coordination across systems doesn’t scale. Normalized operational data feeding consistent workflows helps IT teams monitor infrastructure, support compliance, and manage change without adding headcount.

Common workflows include: 

• Infrastructure monitoring

• Compliance reporting

• Change management

Conduct IP address search using Cribl

Discover IP addresses effortlessly using Cribl and Tines through a streamlined, automated workflow. By forming precise queries in Cribl, tracking search progress, and parsing results that Tines can act on, the process delivers accurate, actionable IP data quickly and reliably.

With Tines and Cribl, IT and security teams can lower operational costs, as well as those linked to data storage and associated tooling. They can accelerate response times, and free analysts to work on higher value tasks. And ensure policies are consistently enforced. 

When combined, the two platforms future-proof operations — scaling operations without additional headcount, and ensuring workflows adapt as threats evolve and IT complexity grows.

Unlock faster, smarter, and more resilient IT and security operations with Tines + Cribl today.