Why Cerbi
Applications can emit PII, credentials, tokens, identifiers, and regulated payloads into telemetry before SIEM, APM, or downstream redaction can protect them. Cerbi connects pre-deployment discovery, runtime enforcement, and retained evidence under one policy lifecycle without replacing the observability stack.
The operating problem
The failure is rarely that an organization has no logging standard. The failure is that the standard is disconnected from source, runtime enforcement, rollout, and evidence.
PII, credentials, tokens, payloads, and other restricted values can leave an application and propagate through collectors, queues, archives, and destinations before anyone notices them in a search result or audit review.
Required fields, severity conventions, names, schemas, and exceptions become team-specific unless the organization has an authoritative policy lifecycle.
Redaction at the final analytics destination can reduce exposure there, but it does not govern every earlier copy, route, archive, processor, or secondary destination.
Teams often know the intended standard but cannot quickly show which policy was active, where it applied, what violated it, and how enforcement changed over time.
What Cerbi changes
SAST, OpenTelemetry processors, logger filters, and downstream redaction are useful controls. Cerbi connects the governance lifecycle across source discovery, deliberate targeting, multiple enforcement boundaries, rollout, and retained evidence.
Cerbi Scanner can surface concrete logging risk before a runtime deployment, giving the pilot a measurable problem instead of a category-level promise.
CerbiShield manages governance rules, validation, targeting, deployment history, violations, reporting, audit, and operational evidence as one system.
Use CerbiStream inside selected applications, Cerbi Gateway on selected OpenTelemetry traffic, or both under the same governance program.
Cerbi governs telemetry before the sink without asking you to replace Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, SIEM, APM, dashboards, or alerts.
CerbiShield and the Marketplace Gateway architecture run in the customer Azure environment rather than requiring a shared Cerbi raw-log relay.
Retain bounded evidence around policy, deployment, violations, validation, reporting, audit activity, and platform health so teams can review what actually happened.
Two enforcement paths
Some applications justify closest-to-emission enforcement. Other estates already have OpenTelemetry routes that are easier to govern centrally. Cerbi supports both without changing the downstream destination strategy.
CerbiStream · in-process
Execute policy inside the application process when governance should happen before its first network hop.
Explore CerbiStreamGateway · OTLP boundary
Available with CerbiShieldRoute selected OTLP traffic through a customer-hosted governance boundary without adding a Cerbi application SDK to workloads that already emit OTLP.
Explore GatewayWhat a buyer should get
It is “Can Cerbi show us a real logging problem and govern one workload better than we do today?” Start there.
Investigation in the product
Violations Explorer is designed to break findings down by severity, rule, workload, and trend so policy failures become an investigation workflow instead of a downstream search exercise.
Use CerbiStream inside selected applications, Cerbi Gateway at the OpenTelemetry boundary, or both. CerbiShield keeps policy, rollout, violations, audit, and evidence under one governance program.