PII Redactor: Safe Log and Payload Sharing

Why PII Redaction Matters

Even short debug snippets can expose personal or secret information. Email addresses, phone numbers, API keys, and session tokens are common in app logs and API traces. Sharing this unfiltered data in tickets, chats, or documentation creates avoidable privacy and security risk. A redaction layer before sharing is a practical baseline for modern engineering teams.

Common Detection Patterns

Our redactor detects high-value patterns such as emails, phone numbers, card-like numbers, IPv4 addresses, JWT-like tokens, and basic key signatures. For edge cases, enable custom patterns and validate them in our Regex Tester + Explain before applying broad replacements. This keeps redaction accurate and prevents overmasking operationally important context.

API and Support Workflows

When reproducing failures from our Curl Generator or sharing API error payloads, sanitize values first so test artifacts are safe for collaboration. For signed event endpoints, verify authenticity in our Webhook Signature Verifier before redacting and escalating incidents. You can then clean and structure response bodies with our JSON Formatter and enforce contract-level rules with our JSON Schema Validator before posting internally or externally.

Privacy by Architecture

All detection and replacement operations run fully in-browser. No payloads, logs, or identifiers are transmitted to external servers. This local-only processing model is ideal for regulated environments and teams that need privacy guarantees while debugging production incidents.