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Published on Sep 1, 2026 • 14 min read
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Fleak vs. Cribl: A Total Cost of Ownership Comparison
Fleak and Cribl both route and reduce telemetry in front of Splunk, but their total cost of ownership differs. Cribl pipelines are authored by hand, so cost scales with engineering headcount. Fleak generates pipelines with AI, prices per source rather than data volume, and, by its own figures, onboards sources in about 3 minutes and cuts integration cost by about 90%.
Oct 6, 2026 • 8 min read
Data Mapping vs. Schema Mapping: What's the Difference?
Schema mapping involves specifying a schema relationship between source and target fields in the SIEM‚ such as srcip and src_ip for Splunk CIM or SrcIpAddr for Microsoft Sentinel ASIM․ Data mapping encompasses a wider range of activities involving the actual data values‚ including parsing‚ normalization‚ lookup‚ and other data filtering operations․ Schema mapping is a subset of data mapping functions․ SecOps use cases require both schema and data mapping․
Oct 5, 2026 • 8 min read
What Is Schema Mapping in Security and Observability Data Pipelines?
Schema mapping is the process of normalizing log and event data‚ including field names and values‚ from the source tool format to the format expected by the target tool‚ such as a SIEM or other analytics tool․ Schema mapping is important because different target tools have different data models‚ or formats‚ such as Splunk's CIM‚ Microsoft Sentinel's ASIM‚ and Google SecOps' UDM․ To use the same log or event data in multiple target tools for detection and other purposes‚ you may need to map it to different formats․
Oct 2, 2026 • 6 min read
Mar 19, 2026 • 13 min read
The Data Normalization Problem Nobody Talks About
Mar 18, 2026 • 6 min read
The Intelligence Upgrade: How AI-Native Data Fabrics Are Solving Security's Core Data Problem
Feb 19, 2026 • 4 min read
Breaking the ‘Intelligence Ceiling’: How Gruve and Fleak Achieved Tier 3 Threat Detection Fidelity
Jan 19, 2026 • 5 min read
The Observability Interpretation Layer: Decoupling Routing from Intelligence
Jan 8, 2026 • 6 min read
The First Mile Gap: Why Your Autonomous Systems Know Everything but Understand Nothing
Jan 7, 2026 • 4 min read
An Engineering Approach to OCSF Log Normalization
Nov 27, 2025 • 2 min read
Fleak Revolutionizes Splunk CIM Compliance with AI-Powered Schema Intelligent Data Fabric
Nov 10, 2025 • 5 min read
My Apache Flink Pains
Sep 16, 2025 • 11 min read
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