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
Security tools govern code.
CI tools govern builds.
IAM governs access.
Logs have no governance layer.
Sensitive identifiers, tokens, and customer metadata end up in telemetry. Once ingested, removal is difficult, expensive, and sometimes impossible.
Governance runs in-process.
Rules enforced at emission.
Zero pipeline changes required.
Sensitive data never reaches the sink.
One SDK. One line of setup. Governance applied before any downstream call is made.
Deployment & licensing
Deployment & Licensing Truth
CerbiShield and the governance control plane are deployed entirely in your tenant. Your log data never leaves your infrastructure.
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.
14-day free trial: up to 5 million governed log events
No credit card required. Full access to CerbiStream and CerbiShield. Trial volume counts against your first paid month if you continue.
Plans
For teams beginning to apply logging governance.
Ideal for small teams and early production services establishing governance practices across their services.
For multi-service production platforms.
Designed for growing platforms where logging governance needs to be enforced consistently across services and environments.
For high-volume platforms and regulated workloads.
Built for production platforms operating at scale where governance, compliance visibility, and audit readiness are non-negotiable.
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.
Overage & enterprise
Overage policy
For workloads exceeding 1 billion events per month, contact Cerbi for volume pricing.
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ROI Estimator
Based on public vendor pricing and U.S. BLS labor benchmarks — not Cerbi customer results.
Log Ingest
Monthly estimated at 30.4 days
Governance typically reduces noise by 10–30%
Labor Recovered
Time recaptured by security and compliance staff when governance policies reduce investigation, cleanup, and audit prep. Based on U.S. BLS median hourly rates.
$86/hr median — BLS SOC 15-1212 (2024)
$54/hr median — BLS SOC 13-1041 (2024)
Log Ingest Monthly
Log savings / mo
$401
ingest cost reduction
Labor value / yr
$12k
3h/wk × BLS rates
Cerbi cost / yr
$3.0k
Pro plan
Est. annual value
$17k
ingest + labor combined
Estimated net annual impact
+0+$13,576
Cerbi cost is covered. Remaining value is net return.
Cost drivers
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.
| Feature | one | pro | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Governed log events per month | 25M | 250M | 1B |
| 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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