url-obfuscation

Sample URL Obfuscation Application

This example provides an application that applies a url obfuscation rule to scrub email adddresses from external http calls using fetch.

Getting Started

1. Clone or fork this repository.
2. Navigate to this example's sub directory

   cd newrelic-node-examples/custom-instrumentation/url-obfuscation
   

3. Install dependencies and run application.

   npm install
   cp env.sample .env
   # Fill out `NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY` in .env and save 
   # Start the application
   npm start
   

4. The application will make a call to https://httpbin.org/anything/[email protected]
5. It will apply the url obfuscation rules from newrelic.js

  url_obfuscation: {
    enabled: true,
    regex: {
      pattern: '[\\w-\\.]+@([\\w-]+\\.)+[\\w-]{2,4}',
      replacement: '***'
    }
  }

6. This will obfuscate the email address from both the span name and the http.url span attribute.

This shows the span name obfuscates the email from the span name:

This shows the http.url span attribute obfuscates the email: