Scan
Know what can go wrong.
Find risky logging in repositories before deciding how to enforce policy.
Cerbi governs risky logging inside the application or at the OTLP boundary, applying policy before sensitive telemetry spreads while keeping the observability stack you already use.
Built to fit the estate you already have
CerbiShield product proof
August 2026 release-preview UI
Policy trace
Raw → decision → governed
Raw
user.email
maya.chen@example.com
Governed
REDACT
[REDACTED]
The control boundary
Keep the stack · add the policy
Application
SDK / OTLP
Cerbi policy
Decide · transform
Observability
Existing stack
The governed record stays visible. Move your pointer across the telemetry and the area beneath it reveals the original value Cerbi saw before policy. Nothing to click or drag.
REDACT
Replace sensitive content
DROP
Remove an unsafe field
ALLOW
Leave safe telemetry alone
user.email = "[REDACTED]"authorization = [DROPPED]customer.ip = "[REDACTED]"trace_id = "2f6c0e79d4054b11"Telemetry governance gets confusing when every tool is introduced at once. Cerbi begins with one question: where do you need control?
A log call, structured event, or OTLP payload contains fields you may not want to travel downstream.
A policy determines what can pass, what must change, and what should be stopped.
Your existing observability stack receives the governed event and keeps doing the job it already does.
There is no required progression through Cerbi. Pick the constraint you actually have and the architecture changes with you.
Use Cerbi Gateway when existing OpenTelemetry workloads should pass through a customer-hosted governance boundary without adding a Cerbi SDK to each emitting workload.
OTLP workloads
Cerbi Gateway
Governed telemetry
Existing destination
Best when adoption friction matters more than in-process enforcement.
Explore GatewayThe product architecture becomes easier when the control lifecycle is separated from the data-processing location.
The durable mental model
Scan → Govern → Enforce → Prove
Scan
Find risky logging in repositories before deciding how to enforce policy.
Govern
CerbiShield owns the rules, targets, versions, rollout state, and evidence around the control.
Enforce
Apply policy in-process with CerbiStream or at the OTLP boundary with Cerbi Gateway.
Prove
Review findings, policy versions, deployments, violations, audit history, and evidence after the decision was made.
Choose the enforcement boundary
Gateway lets OTLP-emitting workloads use Cerbi governance without a Cerbi SDK in every application. It stays inside the customer Azure environment and forwards governed telemetry to existing destinations.
OTLP workloads
Cerbi Gateway
Existing collector / backend
Observability
These are actual August CerbiShield release-preview screens. Empty states remain empty rather than being filled with fabricated customer activity.
What this proves
Coverage, enforcement posture, governed activity, workload risk, and readiness become one operating view.
A credible architecture page should show what each approach is genuinely good at, then make the governance gap explicit. That is more useful than a feature-checkmark battlecard.
Open the full architecture comparisonWhere it is strong
Receivers, processors, and exporters make the Collector a powerful vendor-neutral place to filter, transform, redact, and route telemetry.
Governance question
It is a processing substrate. Teams still own policy authoring conventions, deployment discipline, evidence, exceptions, investigation workflow, and long-term governance operations.
Enterprise buyers should not have to infer where raw telemetry, policy, keys, and evidence live. The website should make the customer-hosted boundary visible before the first architecture call.
Customer Azure tenant
Policy, enforcement, evidence, and customer telemetry path
Workloads
App logs / OTLP
Enforcement
Stream or Gateway
Destinations
Existing observability
CerbiShield
Policy + targets
Customer keys
Signing + storage
Evidence
Violations + audit
Control metadata
Commercial / support interactions can exist outside the customer telemetry path.
Not the architecture
Raw customer logs are not routed through a Cerbi-hosted SaaS relay as the core product model.
The evaluation path is deliberately bounded. Prove one real control against one real workload and make the result understandable from code or OTLP input through downstream output and evidence.
Find a real logging risk instead of inventing a demo problem.
Keep the first evaluation bounded enough to understand every decision.
Use CerbiStream for an application integration or Gateway for an existing OTLP path.
Redact, drop, block, or otherwise govern one representative field or event pattern.
Confirm the downstream event, rollout state, violation behavior, and platform health.
End with the record a security, platform, or audit reviewer would actually need.
Low-friction discovery
Start without changing runtime architecture. Use the findings to decide whether a governance pilot is worth doing.
Scan a repositoryProduction-style evaluation
Choose CerbiStream or Gateway, activate one representative control, verify the downstream result, and review the evidence.
Plan a guided pilotUse CerbiStream inside selected applications, Cerbi Gateway at the OpenTelemetry boundary, or both. CerbiShield keeps policy, rollout, violations, audit, and evidence under one governance program.