Thread:Talk:Requests for comment/Structured logging/IP address and other personal identifying information/reply (2)

Wikimedia Foundation and the community it represents does consider the IP address to be private. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#IP_and_other_technical_information

We do need IP addresses (client and X-Forwarded-For header) in logs, they are very valuable. Obfuscating them would make debugging harder. Similar thing are the Cookies which we obviously need in logs.

We could redact them whenever they are published, might even have some utility to handle it for us/ But honestly I think it is out of the scope of this document.