Case Study: Cribl saves 1,000+ development hours and 3+ headcount with Metronome
Key results
The challenge
Preparing to launch Cribl.Cloud with a new consumption-based pricing model, Cribl needed a back-end system supporting real-time, usage-based billing integrated with its accounting and finance data. Building and maintaining that in-house would have diverted a lean engineering and product team from its core product.
The solution
Cribl adopted Metronome's out-of-the-box consumption-based billing infrastructure with developer-friendly APIs, a business-user UI, customer-facing dashboards, and integrations across its existing stack (Segment, Looker, Snowflake, Salesforce). The team can create and change plans directly, without ongoing engineering work.
“A problem that would have taken us months to solve and build ourselves, Metronome solved in minutes.”
MBManish BhaskarDirector of Product Management, Cribl.Cloud
The results, in context
Cribl reports saving 1,000+ development hours and at least 3-4 engineering headcount by using Metronome rather than building billing itself. Pricing changes that would have taken months to build now take minutes, letting the team continue to experiment with pricing on Cribl.Cloud.