CerbiShield
by Cerbi LLC
Logging governance in Azure. Prevent sensitive data exposure and schema drift before ingestion.
CerbiShield
CerbiShield helps organizations govern application logging before sensitive data, schema drift, and unnecessary telemetry reach downstream observability platforms.
Most logging platforms store, search, and analyze telemetry after applications have already emitted it. By that point, sensitive values may already be present, schemas may already be inconsistent, and excessive log volume may already be driving downstream cost.
CerbiShield moves governance earlier in the logging lifecycle by centrally managing the policies that define what applications are allowed to log and how telemetry should be structured.
CerbiShield works alongside existing platforms such as Splunk, Datadog, ELK, OpenSearch, Grafana Loki, and Azure Monitor. It adds source-side governance without requiring organizations to replace their existing logging or observability infrastructure.
CerbiShield deploys into your Azure tenant, and governed telemetry remains within your infrastructure. The platform manages governance policies, rollout, visibility, access control, deployment history, and audit evidence while your existing observability stack remains in place.
Why It Matters
Logging problems are often discovered after the damage is done. Sensitive fields may already have reached the destination, inconsistent schemas may already be breaking queries and dashboards, and noisy applications may already be increasing observability costs.
CerbiShield helps engineering teams address these issues earlier by making logging policy an enforceable engineering control rather than a best-effort convention.
Policies can be defined centrally, deployed across environments, validated against application telemetry, and tracked over time while applications continue using their existing logging frameworks and destinations.
What You Get
Version-controlled governance policies for required fields, forbidden fields, masking rules, and structured logging standards
Centralized policy deployment across applications and environments
Deployment history and audit visibility
Governance scoring and trend analysis to identify drift and measure improvement
Violation analysis by application, rule, and severity
Role-based access control for viewing, editing, approving, and deploying governance policies
Evidence generation to support governance reviews and audit preparation
How It Fits
CerbiStream provides application-side enforcement for supported runtimes, allowing governance policy to be applied close to where telemetry is created.
CerbiShield provides the centralized dashboard and API layer for governance lifecycle management, policy deployment, visibility, access control, reporting, and evidence.
The CerbiShield governance layer is designed to support multiple runtime ecosystems while allowing organizations to manage logging standards centrally.
What CerbiShield Is Not
A log storage platform
A log search or query platform
A replacement for Splunk, Datadog, ELK, OpenSearch, Grafana Loki, Azure Monitor, or other observability platforms
CerbiShield governs telemetry before it reaches those systems.
Adoption
CerbiShield supports phased adoption.
Teams can begin by identifying governance violations, schema inconsistencies, and policy gaps, then introduce stronger enforcement as standards mature. This allows organizations to improve logging governance without requiring a disruptive migration of their existing observability stack.
Licensing
CerbiShield plans are licensed based on governed log-event volume per billing month.
When usage approaches or exceeds the licensed limit, CerbiShield provides usage notifications. Continued behavior at or above the licensed threshold is handled according to the terms of the selected plan, including any applicable enforcement, reset, or upgrade provisions.