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Cribl Stream: Throughput Drops

  • December 23, 2025
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Hi all, I would like to know about "Enforce License Quotas" in Cribl Stream(On-Prem, not Cribl.Cloud). The docs state that there will be no restrictions if the license quota is exceeded for an Enterprise license. Is there a restriction like Splunk where data cannot be imported if the license quota is exceeded a certain number of times within a certain period of time? Of course, we are assuming that it should not be exceeded, but we are concerned about the impact if a spike occurs due to maintenance, etc. and the license is exceeded. > Enforce License Quotas > If your data throughput exceeds your license quota: > • Free and Standard licenses enforce data ingestion quotas through limits on the number of Worker Groups/Fleets and Worker/Edge Node Processes. > • *Enterprise license keys turn off all enforcement.* > • When an Enterprise or Standard license expires, Cribl Stream will attempt to fall back to a trial or free license, or – only if that fails – will block incoming data. For details, see < a href="https://docs.cribl.io/stream/licensing/#combining-licenses" target="_blank" >Combining Licenses< /a >. < a href="https://docs.cribl.io/stream/licensing/#enforce-license-quotas" target="_blank" >https://docs.cribl.io/stream/licensing/#enforce-license-quotas< /a >

Best answer by Jon Rust

• No impact from exceeding daily ingest • Installation will revert to free if the license key expires

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  • December 23, 2025
as a customer who recently kept eating our license constantly for a good month or so, we didn't experience any throughput issues (any criblers reading this, pls don't charge me more money I've fixed it now :p)

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• No impact from exceeding daily ingest • Installation will revert to free if the license key expires

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  • December 23, 2025
Thank you so much.