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Thomas Nelson

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

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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)

So I’m building CerbiSuite — Unified Logging Governance:

  • CerbiStream – a lightweight structured logger with governance baked in

  • CerbiShield – a governance dashboard to define logging rules, enforce them, and prove compliance

  • Future phases: routing + ML-driven anomaly/scoring on top of the metadata

Site’s here if you’re curious: https://www.cerbi.io

Right now I’m:

  • Prepping a Product Hunt launch for CerbiSuite — Unified Logging Governance

  • Talking to engineers, SREs, and founders about how they actually handle logging, compliance, and “oh no, legal wants an audit” moments

  • Trying to validate what’s genuinely useful vs. founder fantasy

I’d love to connect with:

  • Folks who’ve wrestled with log sprawl / high observability costs

  • People building devtools who’ve gone from “neat side project” to paying customers

  • Anyone who’s done governance or compliance in a way that didn’t make devs hate them

Happy to share what I’ve learned about logging, governance, distributed systems, or selling into enterprises as a solo dev. Looking forward to learning from this community.

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Thomas Nelson

Thanks for reading this — I’m really looking for blunt, practical feedback.

If you work with logs / observability, I’d love to know:

  1. What tools are you using now?

  2. Biggest pain or “this is dumb but we live with it” moment in your logging setup?

  3. Would benchmarks + a sample CerbiStream config be enough for you to try it on a side project?

Happy to trade feedback on your product too.

Thomas Nelson

Quick update if anyone’s curious to see this in motion instead of just reading about it:

I just put together:

  • A short Cerbi overview video – why I’m building it and how the pieces fit

  • A CerbiStream demo walking through a realistic .NET API that might handle PII and how the logging/governance behaves

  • A public repo with the demo implementation:
    👉 https://github.com/Zeroshi/Cerbi.CerbiStream-Implementation

If you’re the type who wants to see code and actual behavior before forming an opinion, this is probably the best snapshot of where Cerbi is right now.

Specific feedback I’d love:

  • What feels overbuilt / “this is too much ceremony”?

  • What feels missing for “I’d actually try this on a real service”?

  • Anything about the DX that would make you bail immediately?

Also happy to trade: if you’re working on a devtool and want a blunt review from an architect / enterprise side, I’m in.