Deploy Cribl Stream through the Linode Marketplace

Cribl Stream is a vendor-agnostic observability pipeline that gives you full control over your data—allowing you to route, shape, enrich, and reduce event data from any source to any destination. It enables organizations to optimize costs and improve observability by filtering and transforming data before it reaches downstream systems like SIEMs, observability platforms, or data lakes. With its intuitive UI and powerful processing engine, Cribl Stream makes it easier to manage high-volume data ingestion without sacrificing visibility.

This guide includes steps for deploying the Cribl Stream Marketplace App on a Linode instance.

Deploying a Marketplace App

The Linode Marketplace lets you easily deploy software on a Compute Instance using Cloud Manager. See Get Started with Marketplace Apps for complete steps.

1. Log in to Cloud Manager and select the Marketplace link from the left navigation menu. This displays the Linode Create page with the Marketplace tab pre-selected.

2. Under the Select App section, select the app you would like to deploy.

3. Complete the form by following the steps and advice within the Creating a Compute Instance guide. Depending on the Marketplace App you selected, there may be additional configuration options available. See the Configuration Options section below for compatible distributions, recommended plans, and any additional configuration options available for this Marketplace App.

4. Click the Create Linode button. Once the Compute Instance has been provisioned and has fully powered on, wait for the software installation to complete. If the instance is powered off or restarted before this time, the software installation will likely fail.

To verify that the app has been fully installed, see Get Started with Marketplace Apps > Verify Installation. Once installed, follow the instructions within the Getting Started After Deployment section to access the application and start using it.

Configuration Options

• Supported distributions: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• Recommended minimum plan: All plan types and sizes can be used, though larger instances are recommended for high-volume data processing.

Cribl Stream Options

• Limited sudo user (required): Enter your preferred username for the limited user. Don’t use capital letters, spaces, or special characters.
• Disable root access over SSH (required): Select whether you want to block the root user from logging in over SSH. You can still switch to the root user once logged in, and you can also log in as root through Lish.

Obtain the Credentials

Once the app is deployed, you need to obtain the credentials from the server. To obtain the credentials:

1. Log in to your new Compute Instance using one of the methods below:

   • Lish Console: Log in to Cloud Manager, click the Linodes link in the left menu, and select the Compute Instance you just deployed. Click Launch LISH Console. Log in as the root user. To learn more, see Using the Lish Console.
   • SSH: Log in to your Compute Instance over SSH using the root user. To learn how, see Connecting to a Remote Server Over SSH.

2. Run the following command to access the contents of the credentials file:

   cat /home/$USERNAME/.credentials

This returns the admin password and other details that were automatically generated when the instance was deployed. Save them securely. Once saved, you can safely delete the file.

Getting Started After Deployment

Once you’ve obtained the credentials, you can access your Cribl instance and open a browser and navigate to your Linode domain entered during deployment or the rDNS domain https://203-0-113-0.ip.linodeusercontent.com.

1. In a browser, paste your instance’s rDNS domain. Replace https://203-0-113-0.ip.linodeusercontent.com with your Linode’s actual rDNS domain.

2. Log in with the admin username (admin) and the password in the credentials file.

3. Follow the Getting Started with Cribl Stream guide to configure data sources, routes, and destinations.

If you don’t have a Cribl account yet, you can create one for free at https://cribl.io to access additional resources and support.

More Information

You may wish to consult the following resources for additional information on this topic. While these are provided in the hope that they will be useful, please note that we cannot vouch for the accuracy or timeliness of externally hosted materials.

• Cribl
• Cribl Stream official documentation
• Getting Started with Cribl Stream