Welcome to our tutorial sandbox! This course, Cribl Stream Fundamentals, is an interactive introduction to Cribl Stream's user experience. In this course, we will implement use cases for routing, transforming, and controlling streaming data. Throughout, we will be working interactively with log and metric data in Cribl Stream. We'll also show real data flowing through the integrated terminal, and through tools like nc, tail, and jq. At the end of this tutorial, you should have a grasp of how to implement basic use cases in Stream.

This course should take about an hour. At the end of the course, you can optionally request a Certificate of Completion to be emailed to you, which you can keep for your records and share on social media.

This sandbox instance will stay running for 24 hours, after which you can get a new sandbox, but your progress will be lost. To reconnect to the sandbox, just come back to https://sandbox.cribl.io/ and re-enter your email address.

Conventions

In this tutorial, the following formatting indicates (respectively) actions we expect you to take; content you can optionally skip; and commands or content you need to paste into the terminal or Stream.

important

Important text shows actions you need to take. For each of these sections, further sections will depend on your having taken these actions in Stream or the terminal.

note

Notes contain optional steps. You can skip these without breaking the infrastructure we're building.

Preformatted text contains commands to be pasted 
into the terminal, or content to be pasted into 
Stream. There is an easy Copy option available
at these sections' upper-right corner.

Getting Help

If you get stuck during this tutorial feel free to reach out to us on the Cribl Community Slack channel.

Cribl Community Slack

Login

Stream should automatically log you in, but if you're idle for too long, or get disconnected, it's possible you'll be prompted for a login. The Username is admin and the Password is cribldemo. You might want to store these to a text file or paper now, just in case.

Terminal

You can hide the terminal to save screen space, and you can toggle its display at any time. Click the X to close the terminal; click the terminal icon to reopen it.

Terminal

Get Started

Next, we'll get right into it, by moving real events through Cribl Stream!