The Telemetry Pipeline Playbook

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Log volumes are growing 20-40% year on year, and your SIEM and observability bills are growing right alongside them. The quiet truth is that 60-80% of what you’re ingesting is noise — health checks, debug chatter, duplicate events — and you’re paying premium per-GB rates to store it. This playbook introduces the telemetry pipeline as the missing middle layer between your sources and your platforms, and shows you how leading enterprises are carving 30-60% out of ingestion cost without losing a single investigation.

Built around Cribl Stream and the OpenTelemetry Collector, the playbook covers the four pipeline functions that matter — filtering, aggregation, enrichment and routing — with a head-to-head comparison so you can choose the right tool for the job. You’ll leave with a two-tier reference architecture, practical noise-identification techniques, and the business case language you need to get this funded. Every quarter you wait is money your competitors just saved.