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Status Submitted
Workspace Instana
Categories Java
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 20, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Java tracer should provide data masking capability for log message 　

Instana captures the application log messages at error or warning level.  This application log messages are quite useful and essential element for problem determination. 

But some application may includes PII information in its log messages and in financial industry we cannot send PII information to the cloud without client agreement. 

When we find it in the test environment, what we can do is just to disable the entire log tracing , other than fixing the application itself.

Please provide the way to sanitize PII information with regular expression base pattern matching. 

The amount of error or warning messages is quite small in comparison with collecting spans, and will not have severe impact for the tracer performance.

The APM tools, including  Dynatrace and OpenTelemetry,  can do this.

The lack of the capability prevents us from leveraging Instana when the problem detemiation is necessary.

Idea priority Urgent

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