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CerbiSuite – Unified Logging, Governance, and Observability
🔐 Structured Logging · 🧠 Developer-First Observability · 🌐 Cloud-Native & Portable
✨ Why CerbiStream Exists
CerbiStream is a tool built to help applications log information accurately and consistently.
Logging is how apps keep track of what’s happening behind the scenes. When something goes wrong, logs tell you exactly what happened, so you can quickly fix the issue.
Nowadays, many companies rely on multiple teams or contractors to build parts of their software, which often leads to messy or inconsistent logging.
Cerbi fixes that.
- ✅ Sets clear, enforced rules for what should be logged
- ✅ Helps teams keep their logs consistent, structured, and secure
- ✅ Ensures logs are ready for audit, monitoring, or machine learning
Cerbi is modular, so you can use just the parts you need.
🚀 What is Cerbi?
Cerbi is a modular observability platform offering precise control over how logs are generated, enriched, encrypted, validated, and routed.
Unlike traditional log aggregators, Cerbi enhances logging at the source, ensuring consistency, security, and compliance before the logs ever leave your service.
Cerbi is not here to replace major log tools — it’s designed to enhance and complement them. Use CerbiStream to log, then send it anywhere: your queue, your sink, or through CerbIQ for governance-aware routing and optional ML analysis.
Cerbi offers Serilog-level speed with dramatically lower memory usage, plus unmatched governance support and modular ML-friendly architecture.
🔀 Hybrid-Compatible by Design
Cerbi is built to integrate with, not against, your stack. Use only what you need:
- ✅ Use CerbiStream as a logger, send logs to your existing sink (Splunk, Datadog, etc.)
- ✅ Or route logs with CerbIQ for schema validation, queue normalization, and ML-ready structuring
- ✅ Only CerbIQ can forward metadata (not NPI by default) to CerbiSense, the shared AI insights engine
Cerbi is about precision at the source. You own the routing, we offer optional intelligence.
I’m also gathering non-sensitive data from these logs—no personal info like names or addresses, just general metadata—only with user permission. This lets us pool data to analyze and spot trends or common issues everyone can benefit from.
🧠 How the Cerbi Ecosystem Flows
Cerbi enables total control from log creation to insight generation. You choose how deep to go:
Your App (ILogger<T>)
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| CerbiStream | <- Your structured logger
| (adds metadata) |
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| Encryption Layer|
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| Message Queue |
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| +--> Your Sink (Splunk, Datadog, etc.)
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+--> CerbIQ (Optional Routing/Governance Layer)
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(optional) CerbiSense
(only from CerbIQ, metadata only)
🔄 Routing Options
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CerbiStream → Queue → Your Sink
Keep your current stack. Cerbi just ensures logs are validated and consistent before reaching your destination. -
CerbiStream → Queue → CerbIQ → Your Sink
Add governance-aware routing: CerbIQ can normalize, filter, and validate schemas before sending to your sink. -
CerbiStream → Queue → CerbIQ → CerbiSense (optional)
If enabled, CerbIQ can forward non-NPI metadata only to CerbiSense for global pattern analysis, risk scoring, and shared anomaly detection dashboards.
🔍 Feature Matrix (At a Glance)
| Capability | CerbiStream | Serilog | NLog | log4net |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Structured Logging | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Native Encryption | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Governance Analyzer | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Memory Efficient | ✅ | ❌ | ⚠️ | ⚠️ |
| Built-in Presets | ✅ (soon) | ⚠️ Partial | ❌ | ❌ |
| File Fallback | ✅ (soon) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
🔧 Core Components
| Component | Description |
|---|---|
| CerbiStream | ⚡ Fast, structured logging with metadata & encryption |
| GovernanceAnalyzer | ✅ Enforces structure and standards at build time |
| CerbiShield (beta) | Visual governance rule & policy builder |
| CerbIQ (in dev) | Smart, schema-driven log router (Kafka/Splunk/etc.) |
| CerbiSense (in dev) | ML-driven pattern detection & risk scoring |
📐 Benchmark Results
🧪 Performance & Allocation Benchmarks (.NET 8, 10 iterations, release)
| Logger | Mean (μs) | Allocated (B) |
|---|---|---|
| NLog_Log_Plain | 9.99 | 432 |
| Log4Net_Log_Plain | 12.71 | 576 |
| Serilog_Log_Plain | 213.5 | 1480 |
| Cerbi_Log_Plain | 213.9 | 320 ✅ |
| MS_Log_Plain | 427.2 | 320 |
✅ CerbiStream matches Serilog’s speed but uses ~78% less memory, with built-in encryption and governance support.
🔐 Encryption Performance Benchmarks
| Logger | Mode | Mean (μs) | Allocated (B) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CerbiStream | Plain | 213.9 | 320 |
| CerbiStream (Base64) | Encrypted | 221.3 | 320 ✅ |
| Serilog | Plain | 213.5 | 1480 |
| Serilog + Manual Base64 | Encrypted | 206.2 | 1640 ❌ |
| NLog | Plain | 9.99 | 432 |
| Log4Net | Plain | 12.71 | 576 |
📈 Logs per Second (Estimated Throughput)
| Logger | Mean (μs) | Logs/sec (est.) |
|---|---|---|
| NLog | 9.99 | 100,100+ ⚡ |
| Log4Net | 12.71 | ~78,700 |
| CerbiStream | 213.9 | ~4,676 |
| Serilog | 213.5 | ~4,686 |
| MS Logger | 427.2 | ~2,341 |
💾 Memory Efficiency – Logs per 1KB Allocated
| Logger | Allocated (B) | Logs per 1KB |
|---|---|---|
| CerbiStream | 320 | 3.20 ✅ |
| NLog | 432 | 2.37 |
| Log4Net | 576 | 1.78 |
| Serilog | 1480 | 0.69 ❌ |
🧮 Logging Cost per Feature Set
| Logger | Governance | Encryption | JSON Format | Alloc (B) | Time (μs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerbi | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ (soon) | 320 | 221.3 |
| Serilog | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | 1480 | 213.5 |
| NLog | ❌ | ❌ | ⚠️ Partial | 432 | 9.99 |
| Log4Net | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 576 | 12.71 |
♻️ Garbage-Free Logging
CerbiStream emits structured logs with only 320B per log and no Gen 0/1/2 collections observed during BenchmarkDotNet tests.
✅ GC-friendly by design — ideal for APIs, games, IoT, and real-time workloads.
🙅 What Cerbi Is Not
Let’s set clear expectations:
- ❌ Not a log aggregator like Splunk or Datadog
- ❌ Not a file-based logger (but file fallback is coming soon!)
- ❌ Not a rigid pipeline — use only what you need
Cerbi is modular, developer-first, and designed for precision and compliance.
🧭 CerbiSuite by Cerbi – Built for Real-Time, Secure Observability
Cerbi empowers developers with tools that prioritize structure, security, and simplicity — all in your own tenant. Whether you’re building APIs, platforms, or ML-powered systems, Cerbi helps ensure your logs are consistent, validated, and ready for anything.
✅ Use Cerbi as a logger and keep your current pipeline
✅ Enhance it with CerbIQ to route, govern, or even learn from your metadata
✅ Opt-in to CerbiSense if you want collective ML insights on top
🌐 GitHub
📦 NuGet: CerbiStream
✉️ Contact: thomasvnelson@live.com
Logging is not an afterthought. It’s infrastructure.
With Cerbi, you’re building it right from Day One.