Filter Sensitive Data

By default, the Java Agent sends transaction data to the Controller that your organization may classify as privileged information. Although such data is useful for diagnosis and troubleshooting, security considerations may require you to filter certain information from view in the Controller.

You can use:

• Sensitive URL filters to exclude sensitive information from a URL in snapshot details.
• Sensitive message filters to exclude sensitive data that the application may place in log messages or exception detail messages.

• Sensitive data filters to exclude sensitive information from the data collected through system properties, environment variables, jmx mbeans, HTTP headers or HTTP cookies.

All of these sensitive data filters are configured in XML format within the app-agent-config.xml file, which is included with the JavaAgent distribution.