Configure Log Masking with Log4j¶

There can be business sensitive information that are added to logs in the product console and/or Carbon log files. When these logs are analyzed, the information is exposed to those who check this.

To avoid this potential security pitfall, users can mask sensitive information.

To avoid this potential security pitfall, users can mask sensitive information from the log file at the time of logging. In this feature, you can define patterns that need to be masked from the logs. This is particularly useful in the cases of credit card numbers, access tokens, etc.

To configure this feature, follow the instructions given below.

Configure log masking¶

1. Log masking is enabled by default. However, you need to configure required masking patterns.

2. These patterns are configured in the <IS-HOME>/repository/conf/wso2-log-masking.properties. You can change its default configurations in <IS-HOME>/repository/conf/deployment.toml.

The masking pattern file¶

The masking pattern file is a property file that can contain one or more masking patterns. The following is a sample configuration that showcases how to mask the credit card numbers from the logs.

Navigate to <IS-HOME>/repository/conf/deployment.toml. Add the following configuration.

[masking_pattern.properties]
"CREDIT_CARD_VISA" = "4[0-9]{6,}$"
"CREDIT_CARD_MASTER" = "(?:5[1-5][0-9]{2}|222[1-9]|22[3-9][0-9]|2[3-6][0-9]{2}|27[01][0-9]|2720)[0-9]{12}"
"CREDIT_CARD_AMEX" = "[34|37][0-9]{14}$"

With this configuration, each log line is checked for all the configured patterns. If any match is found, it is masked with *****.