Anonymizing data

You might want to track more than what we are tracking by default. That is possible, but comes with a risk of collecting PII data. Something that both RUMvision as well as your organization wants to avoid.

To enable you to avoid this, we introduced a way to add regular expressions to anonymize or mask values that are matching a specific regular expression. This will add a little burden to your personalized monitoring script, but will come with privacy benefits.

A few examples:

  • you could add a regular expression to mask e-mail addresses;
  • you could add a regular expression to mask social security numbers;
  • you could add a regular expression to mask zip codes.

In short, by using regular expressions, you can be as creative as you like.