Built to solve a problemthat kept appearing.

The problem showed up the same way every time. A security review, a compliance audit, or an incident investigation would reveal that PHI was already in Splunk. Tokens were already in CloudWatch. Audit trails that were supposed to be clean had been contaminated for months. Every team had already shipped the problem before anyone knew to look.

Existing platforms and framework filters can provide effective redaction and processing. The question is whether those controls meet a particular application logging requirement and retain the evidence your team needs. Cerbi is relevant when a material gap remains.

CerbiStream applies policy on integrated logging paths inside selected applications. Gateway provides another boundary for explicitly routed OTLP logs. CerbiShield manages versioned policy, targets, rollout, and recorded evidence across those connected paths. Initial integration and customer configuration are required.

The goal is a product that makes the right behavior the default behavior - one that ships into existing .NET logging frameworks without requiring a rewrite and with measurable runtime overhead.

Cerbi was founded by Thomas Nelson, a principal-level software architect with experience across .NET, Azure, distributed systems, DevSecOps, identity, observability, and enterprise governance.

Cerbi comes from real platform work, not a theory exercise. The problem is simple: companies often have logging standards, but those standards rarely execute where logs are created.

Cerbi exists to move that control closer to the application, before sensitive fields, inconsistent schemas, and noisy events reach downstream systems.