Ask HN: Recommend Log Sanitizers

6 points by equalunique ↗ HN
When you have logs that need to be "sanitized" (i.e., clear any identifying information like IP addresses, host names, usernames, etc.), what tools do you find most useful?

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We've had this problem, and ended up having to write it ourselves. There are a lot of patterns that identify data as potentially sensitive, and being able to redact this is part of something we've created.

It's open source and written in Go -- so you can see the types of data that we've identified as needing redaction:

https://github.com/replicatedhq/troubleshoot/blob/e42b7c3d77...