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Redact PII in one central place before sending to vendors

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Pipe all payloads destined for the observability vendor through Rails' parameter filter (configured with regex/string patterns for email, credit card, etc.) at a single point in the pipeline, rather than peppering filter_parameters across the codebase. Vendor-side redaction exists but ideally no PII should cross the wire in the first place. This pattern is under-documented and catches people out.

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takeaway Redact PII in one central place before sending to vendors
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Concrete technique is Rails' built-in parameter filter applied centrally in the observability pipeline.
takeaway Redact PII in one central place before sending to vendors
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Q&A answer to the PII privacy question.

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