Sharp: AI model providers will launch competing telemetry products within 18 months
Clint Sharp · AI Agents Are Creating A Data Explosion. Here's What To Do About It. — With Clint Sharp · Aug 11, 2026 · at 4:45
Cribl co-founder and CEO Clint Sharp discusses the risk of foundation model companies using enterprise exhaust data to compete against existing infrastructure and observability tools.
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“I have a near 100% belief that the, that these companies will eventually want to compete with my business. And so, you know, I need them. I need their models. I need the intelligence that they're selling, but I'm, I have some very real concerns that, you know, within the next six, 1218 months they're going to have Telemetry products, security products that are going to be directly competitive with mine”
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