Redactrus    

Redactrus is a Logrus hook that redacts specified text from your logs.

Easy redaction of log data:

Example

To use Redactrus, simply add the Redactrus hook to your Logrus logger:

package main

import (
  log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
  "github.com/whuang8/redactrus"
)

func init() {
  // Create Redactrus hook that is triggered
  // for every logger level and redacts any
  // Logrus fields with the key as 'password'
  rh := &redactrus.Hook{
      AcceptedLevels: log.AllLevels,
      RedactionList: []string{"password"},
  }
  
  log.AddHook(rh)
}

func main() {
  log.WithFields(log.Fields{
    "walrusName": "Walrein",
    "password": "iloveclams<3",
  }).Info("A walrus attempted to log in.")
}

Usage

You can create a Redactrus hook by initializing the redactrus.Hook struct with defined LogLevels and RedactionList fields. Then, simply use the logrus.AddHook function to attach the hook to your logrus logger. Refer to the example above to see this in action.

RedactionList

The RedactionList is a slice of strings that defines the patterns you want to redact from your logs. There are many ways to define a string in the RedactionList to allow for flexibility in the patterns of text you want to redact.

Explicit Words

By defining words explicitly in the RedactionList , Redactrus will try to find a key that is the same as the defined word and redact the associated value in the log entry’s data fields.

rh := &redactrus.Hook{
  AcceptedLevels: log.AllLevels,
  RedactionList: []string{"word"},
}

// ...

log.WithFields(log.Fields{
  "word": "bird",
}).Info("Bah bah bah bird bird bird")

Redactrus will also redact any occurrences of the word in the log entry’s message, as well as the values in the log entry’s data fields.

rh := &redactrus.Hook{
  AcceptedLevels: log.AllLevels,
  RedactionList: []string{"bird"},
}

// ...

log.WithFields(log.Fields{
  "song": "surfin' bird",
}).Info("A-well-a bird bird bird, well-a bird is the word")

Regular Expressions

You can also define regular expressions in the RedactionList to match a specific pattern instead of an explicit word.

rh := &redactrus.Hook{
  AcceptedLevels: log.AllLevels,
  RedactionList: []string{"[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{4}"},
}

// ...

log.WithFields(log.Fields{
  "ssn": "111-22-3333",
}).Info("A new customer with ssn: 111-22-3333 has been registered")

Sometimes, redacting all of the text that matches a regex pattern is not wanted. If a logrus logger logs the following string: /api/v1/endpoint?ssn=111223333&account_id=123456789&pin_number=987654321, how do we only redact the SSN number and yield ssn=[REDACTED]&? Additionally, how can we avoid redacting the other 9-digit numbers?

For sections of a regular expression that you do not want to redact, simply wrap it in parenthesis. Redactrus will know to match on the entire expression provided, but will not redact the parts of the text that match the regex defined in parenthesis.

rh := &redactrus.Hook{
  AcceptedLevels: log.AllLevels,
  RedactionList: []string{"(ssn=)[0-9]{9}(&)"},
}

// ...

log.WithFields(log.Fields{
  "path": "/api/v1/endpoint?ssn=111223333&account_id=123456789&pin_number=987654321",
}).Info("Request received")