Logging is one of the essential components of software development. We use different types of logs to identify issues in applications, track application events, analyze the performance of applications etc. Even though logs are very beneficial, they also introduce a huge risk to your business. For example, logging sensitive data of the customers, exposing security credentials with logs etc are some of the serious issues.
In this post, I will show how to use the CloudWatch log masking feature to protect personally identifiable (PII) data such as email address, date of birth, zip code etc in CloudWatch logs.
Refer to the original article that I published on https://duleendra.medium.com