Thomas Nelson

Thomas Nelson

Telemetry governance for modern systems.

About

I am the founder and solo builder behind Cerbi, a telemetry governance platform built after years of dealing with noisy dashboards, mystery production errors, and logs that slowly turn into an unmanageable mess. My background is in .NET and Azure enterprise architecture and I wrote an APress book on Microsoft Orleans. I am also currently a graduate student at Harvard. I care a lot about practical logging and would genuinely appreciate honest feedback on Cerbi. What is confusing, what is missing, and how could it better help your team?

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Thomas Nelson

3mo ago

Building governed logging + scoring (Cerbi): looking for feedback before Jan release

I m building CerbiSuite: governed logging for teams that need structured logs without accidental PII/PHI leaks or schema chaos.

This week I shipped the first end-to-end scoring pipeline: CerbiStream + logger plugins emit a lightweight scoring event (violations, required field misses, redaction hits no raw log bodies), and a new Scoring API ingests it and writes to Postgres with idempotent semantics. The goal is to make governance measurable over time (drift, coverage, risk), not a doc people forget.

In parallel I ve been doing a ton of voice-of-customer work cost sprawl, inconsistent fields across services, compliance reviews where nobody can prove what s logged, and dashboards that break whenever one team just adds a property.

Targeting a January release, aligned with Microsoft as we finalize Marketplace/ISV readiness.

Thomas Nelson

4mo ago

Founder of CerbiSuite — tackling logging chaos & governance for cloud teams

Hey everyone

I m Thomas, a principal architect-turned-founder working mostly in cloud-native backend systems (.NET, Azure, distributed apps, all the usual suspects).

Over the last few years I kept running into the same mess at every company:

  • Logs scattered across tools

  • Observability bills creeping into this can t be right territory

  • Zero governance on what people log (PII everywhere, no standards, no consistency)

Thomas Nelson

4mo ago

Launching soon: CerbiSuite — unified logging governance for .NET (early feedback welcome)

I m gearing up to launch CerbiSuite, a governance-first approach to .NET logging that aims to stop sensitive data before it hits your SIEM and to keep logs consistent across teams.

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