Transparent pricing

Simple pricing based on governed log volume

One dimension: monthly governed event volume. No feature tiers, no hidden seats, no data egress fees. We enforce monthly totals — not rolling averages.

Why governance

$cat ungoverned-logs.txt | grep sensitive

> Security tools govern code.

> CI tools govern builds.

> IAM governs access.

> Logs have no governance layer.

Sensitive identifiers, internal tokens, and customer metadata end up in telemetry. Once ingested, removal is difficult, expensive, and sometimes impossible.
Cerbi introduces governance before telemetry enters the observability pipeline.

Deployment & licensing

Deployment & Licensing Truth

Tenant-Hosted Governance

CerbiShield and the governance control plane are deployed entirely in your tenant. Your log data never leaves your infrastructure.

Log Volume Licensing

Licensing is based on governed log events per month.

Usage is counted per billing month.

If you exceed your tier in a month, Cerbi continues operating for the rest of that month.

Starting the next billing month, Cerbi enforces your tier cap.

Once the cap is reached, additional events are not accepted until you upgrade.

Your applications keep running normally. Only Cerbi event intake is affected.

Plans

For teams introducing telemetry governance.

Ideal for small teams and early production services beginning to apply governance to their telemetry pipelines.

$0/month
25Mevents / month
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For multi-service production systems.

Designed for growing platforms with multiple services where telemetry governance needs to be enforced consistently across environments.

$0/month
250Mevents / month
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For high-volume platforms and regulated workloads.

Built for production platforms operating at scale where telemetry governance, compliance visibility, and operational stability are critical.

$0/month
1Bevents / month
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Architecture

Cerbi validates and governs telemetry before it reaches observability platforms such as Splunk, Datadog, or Azure Monitor. By enforcing schema validation, sensitive field protection, and governance metadata at runtime, teams prevent telemetry issues before they propagate through monitoring systems.

No log pipeline changes required. Governance runs in-process.

Overage & enterprise

Overage policy

01Usage is counted per billing month.
02If you exceed your tier, Cerbi continues for the rest of that month.
03Starting the next billing month, the tier cap is enforced.
04Once the cap is reached, additional events are not accepted until you upgrade.
05Your applications keep running. Only Cerbi event intake is affected.
Enterprise Volume

For workloads exceeding 1 billion events per month, contact Cerbi for volume pricing.

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Cost estimator

Log Cost Savings Estimator
Estimate potential impact of reducing log volume with governance. This models ingestion baselines only.

We estimate monthly using 30.4 days

30%
Estimated current logging cost (monthly)$380
Estimated after reduction (monthly)$266
Estimated savings (monthly)$114
Cerbi cost (monthly)$79
Net impact (monthly)
$35Net savings
Break-even reduction~21% reduction needed to cover Cerbi

How to Interpret These Savings

These estimates reflect log volume reduction achieved through enforced governance policies. CerbiShield operates independently of log volume and does not charge per event, per gigabyte, or per query, which makes savings predictable as systems scale.

Why These Savings Scale

CerbiShield separates governance cost from data volume. As log volume grows, observability costs typically increase, while CerbiShield's governance cost remains fixed and predictable. This allows savings from reduced logging to scale over time without introducing new operational or pricing risk.

Estimates only. Vendor pricing varies by plan, region, retention, and indexing options. This models ingestion baselines to illustrate potential impact. Verify against your own bills.

Cost drivers

[WARN]Indexing and retention often increase costs more than ingest alone
[WARN]Verbose payloads multiply volume quickly
[ERROR]Sensitive fields in logs create cleanup work and compliance risk

Platform notes

Built to Scale Without Cost Surprises

CerbiShield is designed to operate at scale without becoming a performance bottleneck or introducing usage-based costs. Governance is enforced efficiently and scales linearly as environments grow.

// Internal benchmarks confirm negligible infrastructure overhead
// vs. downstream observability ingestion costs.

Cerbi does not replace your existing log platforms. It governs what gets logged before data reaches tools like Datadog, Splunk, Azure Monitor, or ELK — helping teams control cost, enforce structure, and reduce noise.

Feature comparison

All capabilities included on every plan

There are no feature-based tiers. Licensing is based on throughput only.

Featureonepropro++
Governed log events per month25M250M1B
Unlimited applications and environments
Governance profiles and schema rules
Structured logging enforcement
PII and PHI field controls
Log scoring and classification
Dashboards and operational visibility
Role-based access control (RBAC)
Governance audit history
Reporting and data export
Multiple deployment targets
High-throughput ingestion and scoring

Licensing is based on throughput only. All features are always enabled.

Pricing is provisional for Marketplace previews. Final terms, limits, and SLAs are confirmed in order forms or private offers. Cerbi governs schemas, scoring, and redaction while leaving log routing entirely under customer control.

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