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Cerbi: governance at the source
Bad logs start in code
Bad logs start in code. Cerbi governs them there.
Most tools clean logs after they already exist. Cerbi applies policy while the log event is being created — redacting sensitive fields, tagging violations, and keeping existing sinks working.
All sensitive fields forwarded to Splunk, Datadog, and every downstream sink.
Sensitive fields governed at emission. Violations recorded. Nothing sensitive leaves the process.
Govern logging behavior before bad logs are created.
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22%
Of breaches involved compromised credentials as the initial access vector
— Verizon DBIR 2025
88%
Of basic web application breaches relied on stolen credentials
— Verizon DBIR 2025
94 days
Median time to remediate leaked secrets discovered in a repository
— Verizon DBIR 2025
How it compares
Every control has a moment of action.
Downstream masking and pipeline processors act after the application has already emitted the event. Cerbi acts earlier, where the log is created.
Architecture
Where Cerbi lives in your stack.
Cerbi sits in the logging path before the sink. The application still logs normally. Existing observability platforms still receive events. Cerbi governs the event first.
Scope
Where Cerbi Fits
Cerbi governs logging behavior at the source, before sensitive data reaches downstream observability tools.
Most organizations already secure systems of record. The gap is application logging. Logs can create a second copy of sensitive data inside tools that were never designed to store regulated payloads.
Cerbi addresses that gap by enforcing policy before logs leave the application. It works alongside your existing code review, CI/CD, security review, and observability stack.
Cerbi gives teams a control layer where logging risk starts: inside the application.
Keep Splunk, Datadog, ELK, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, Serilog, NLog, and Microsoft.Extensions.Logging. Cerbi governs what reaches them.
Roadmap
What's next for Cerbi
Cerbi is .NET-first today and expanding into a cross-runtime logging governance platform. The CerbiShield platform is entering release readiness — adapters for Python, Java, Node.js, and Go are underway.
.NET Governance
Runtime governance for MEL, Serilog, NLog, and CerbiStream with build-time analyzer support.
CerbiShield
Enterprise control plane — policy management, RBAC, scoring, reporting, and Azure Marketplace packaging.
Cross-Runtime Adapters
Extending the same governance model into Python, Java, Node.js, and Go logging ecosystems.
CerbiSense
Governance metadata analysis to identify policy gaps and rule improvement opportunities — with admin approval required.
.NET Governance
Runtime governance for MEL, Serilog, NLog, and CerbiStream with build-time analyzer support.
CerbiShield
Enterprise control plane — policy management, RBAC, scoring, reporting, and Azure Marketplace packaging.
Cross-Runtime Adapters
Extending the same governance model into Python, Java, Node.js, and Go logging ecosystems.
CerbiSense
Governance metadata analysis to identify policy gaps and rule improvement opportunities — with admin approval required.
Roadmap items are directional and may change based on customer needs, security review, and release readiness.
Control point
Every control has a moment of action.
Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, and pipeline processors help manage data after emission. Cerbi acts earlier — inside the application, before the log event leaves the process.
Interactive Demo
See Cerbi in the Log Path
Pick a scenario, configure governance rules, and watch what gets sanitized, blocked, and routed asynchronously, before a single byte reaches your observability platform.
{
"timestamp": "2025-04-12T14:32:11.042Z",
"level": "Information",
"message": "Payment processed",
"correlationId": "ord-8821-xk",
"userId": "u_4492",
"ssn": "382-91-0047",
"cardNumber": "4111-1111-1111-1111",
"cvv": "392",
"amount": 149.99,
"service": "payment-api",
}hot path
// Run example to see output
// Governance score, violations, and async routing appear here
This demo runs entirely in-browser. No log data is transmitted. Behavior reflects Cerbi's in-process governance engine.
06. WILLAdoption
Start with one service.
Pick one application, one logging framework, and one governance profile. Add Cerbi, run the app, and see which fields would have reached your observability stack.
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14 days · 5M governed events
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View trial detailsInstall-Package CerbiStream.UseCerbi(cfg => cfg.LoadProfile("governance.json"))governance.json → committed, versioned, reviewedNo agents · No pipeline rewrite · No sink replacementRepeat · Version profiles · Scale governanceWho this is for
Built for the teams who own what gets logged.
Cerbi is a fit when logging behavior needs to be a controlled, auditable property of the platform, not a per-team decision made at the call site.
Platform engineering
Standardize logging behavior across services without replacing every sink or mandating call-site rewrites.
Security and compliance
Reduce sensitive data exposure before logs spread into observability tools, exports, dashboards, and tickets. Get evidence that governance was applied at emission.
Architecture leadership
Turn logging from an unmanaged habit into an enforceable, version-controlled enterprise control. Cerbi works with your existing logging framework without lock-in.
Developers
Keep normal logging workflows while gaining safer defaults and governance feedback. Cerbi does not require call-site rewrites.
07.Origin
Built by engineers who lived the problem.
Cerbi was built after seeing the same problem across multiple production systems: PHI already in Splunk, tokens already in CloudWatch, audit trails that collapsed under review. Every team had already shipped the problem before anyone looked. The check was always too late, too manual, or missing entirely.
Logging governance should not be a post-ingest scrubbing task or a quarterly audit finding. It belongs at the moment the log is written, enforced in the same process, on the same thread, before any sink ever sees the data. That is what Cerbi does.
Get started
Change logging behavior
before the next bad log ships.
Pick one application that logs sensitive fields. Add Cerbi, apply a governance profile, and see what changes before data reaches your observability stack.
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