Higher education environments are complex by nature—diverse systems, sprawling infrastructure, and decentralized ownership across IT, research, security, and facilities. As data volumes increase and platforms multiply, institutions are struggling to get a clear, unified view of what's happening across their environments.

In this session, Cribl explored how higher ed organizations can take back control of their observability strategy—eliminating silos, reducing operational friction, and creating a single view of data across tools and departments.

Without requiring a complete overhaul of existing platforms, we’ll show how a flexible, vendor-neutral architecture allows teams to:

• Centralized observability without sacrificing departmental autonomy
• Reduce ingestion and storage costs while increasing visibility
• Support both compliance and innovation across campus
• Enable faster investigations, performance tuning, and operational insights
• Future-proof your stack against tool sprawl and rigid integrations

Whether you’re supporting student success, research operations, or campus security, this session provides strategies to simplify observability in a complex, ever-changing IT landscape.