Sasquatch vs the alternatives.
The only telemetry compression tool that's lossless, schema-aware, multi-signal, edge-native, and queryable from the tools your team already runs. Below is the honest capability matrix — including where competitors win.
One row per capability. One column per tool.
Capability framing is the buyer's, not the vendor's. We don't grade ourselves on whether a tool ships in our preferred package format; we grade on what the tool actually does for telemetry compression and query economics.
| Capability | Sasquatch | FluentBit | Cribl | OpenObserve | Splunk-only |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lossless No filtering, no dropping, no summarization | |||||
Severity-routed in real time Errors hit your SIEM uncompressed; everything else ships cold | |||||
Schema-aware compression Calibrated to your environment, not generic | |||||
Logs · Traces · Metrics One agent, three signals | |||||
Compresses inside your cluster Bytes never leave your network uncompressed | |||||
BYO cloud cold storage Your S3 / GCS / Azure bucket, your KMS key | |||||
Query without re-ingest Tap Out + adapters for your existing tools | |||||
Multi-language query (LogQL / SPL / PromQL / TraceQL) No new query language to learn | |||||
Air-gap deployment Zero outbound to control plane | |||||
Compression ratio (logs) Realistic K8s corpus | 18× | ~2× (gzip) | ~2× (gzip) | ~5× | n/a |
Auditable cold storage Signed integrity manifest per chunk | |||||
Compliance posture SOC 2 · HIPAA · PCI · GDPR |
Compiled from each vendor's public docs. Where vendors offer the capability behind a non-default SKU or paid add-on, we marked it "partial." We update this page when a vendor ships meaningful capability changes.
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