Sensitive data exposure
Find logging patterns and fields that should not travel downstream, then enforce the appropriate redact, drop, block, or policy decision at the selected boundary.
Use cases
Start with the failure mode, not the industry label.
Healthcare, payments, SaaS, privacy, and platform engineering have different regulatory and operating contexts, but the telemetry problems often reduce to the same four questions: what should be found, governed, enforced, and proven?
01Common problems
The buyer's problem should determine the first Cerbi surface.
Not every use case should begin with the same product. Discovery-heavy problems start with Scanner. Existing OTLP adoption can start at Gateway. Evidence-heavy programs may begin with the CerbiShield operating model.
Inconsistent telemetry
Turn naming, required fields, prohibited fields, and schema expectations into explicit policy instead of relying on team-by-team conventions.
OTLP estate adoption
Govern selected OpenTelemetry traffic through a customer-hosted Gateway when adding an application SDK everywhere is the wrong rollout strategy.
Audit and evidence
Keep policy, versions, targets, deployments, violations, exceptions, and audit context connected to the control instead of reconstructing them during review.
02Product proof
Use violations to move from category language to a real remediation workflow.
Regardless of industry, the product needs to show where policy failed, which workload and rule were involved, and enough context to decide what should change next.
See the Dashboard journeyCerbiShield / Violations ExplorerActual Aug 2026 preview
03Scenario patterns
01
Healthcare
Reduce patient-data exposure in telemetry.
Constraint
PHI-sensitive logs, distributed services, audit requirements
Governance path
Scanner → policy → Stream or Gateway → Evidence
Use Scanner to find risky logging before deployment, then govern selected sensitive fields at the application or OTLP boundary while keeping the existing observability system downstream.
Useful outcomes
Reduce accidental PHI propagation
Make exceptions explicit
Retain reviewable policy and violation evidence
Supports logging controls in HIPAA-sensitive environments. It is not a HIPAA certification.
02
Payments
Keep payment and credential data out of log pipelines.
Constraint
Card data, tokens, secrets, exception payloads
Governance path
Scanner → prohibited-field policy → enforce → investigate
Find payment-field and credential risk in source, then apply policy before governed telemetry reaches long-term storage, analytics, or secondary destinations.
Useful outcomes
Constrain prohibited values
Keep required transaction context
Track where policy was active
Supports reduced cardholder-data exposure in logs. It is not a PCI DSS certification.
03
Enterprise SaaS
Standardize logging without forcing one runtime integration.
Constraint
Many teams, languages, schemas, and exception patterns
Governance path
Scanner → shared policy → mixed Stream / Gateway estate
Use a shared CerbiShield policy lifecycle while allowing selected applications to use in-process enforcement and existing OTLP workloads to use Gateway where appropriate.
Useful outcomes
Reduce schema drift
Target policy by workload
Operate one governance program across mixed boundaries
Designed for multi-team environments that need shared telemetry standards without replacing every team's logging framework.
04
Privacy & minimization
Reduce personal data copied into observability systems.
Constraint
PII, retention pressure, multiple downstream copies
Governance path
Discover → minimize → enforce → prove
Identify personal-data risk in source and govern selected fields before they continue to analytics, archives, SIEMs, or other secondary destinations.
Useful outcomes
Reduce unnecessary data propagation
Version policy and exceptions
Create evidence for privacy/security review
Supports privacy-conscious logging practices. It is not a GDPR certification or legal advice.
05
Platform engineering
Roll out governance without a platform rewrite.
Constraint
Existing loggers, existing OTel, existing destinations
Governance path
Start where the estate already is
Use Scanner for discovery, CerbiShield for policy, Stream for selected applications, and Gateway for selected OTLP estates while leaving the downstream observability strategy intact.
Useful outcomes
Choose the least disruptive boundary
Centralize policy lifecycle
Make deployment and health visible
A practical fit for platform teams responsible for standards across many services and engineering groups.
06
Security & audit
Turn a logging standard into an operating record.
Constraint
Evidence gaps, undocumented exceptions, unclear rollout state
Governance path
Policy → deployment → violations → evidence
Use CerbiShield to keep the governance lifecycle visible so reviewers can understand which control was intended, where it was active, what violated it, and what changed later.
Useful outcomes
Track policy/deployment history
Review violation context
Present bounded evidence without using Cerbi as the raw-log archive
Supports evidence for internal logging controls. It is not a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification.
04Evaluation pattern
Use one real workload to prove the control.
The industry context matters, but the first proof should stay bounded enough that every policy decision can be explained.
01
Find
One actual risk
02
Govern
One explicit rule
03
Enforce
One selected boundary
04
Prove
One evidence chain
