Package: gatling Version: 0.13-5+b3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
there's no way to disable logging of IP addresses in gatling itself as all the logging is hard-coded. As logging is done to a custom log file rather than via syslog, filtering via the syslog daemon isn't possible either. The only way to add a post-processing filter is by hacking the init script or disabling the init script and using a custom setup (e.g. a hand-crafted systemd unit file). So disabling logging of IP addresses for gatling on a given system requires a considerable amount of work. >From a technical point of view, this is fine. Logging of IP addresses is very useful for debugging. From a legal point view, it's problematic at best for public facing servers in at least Germany and often advised against by lawyers and data protection officials (see e.g. [1]). To be on the safe side (and to be privacy friendly), administrators may want to disable logging of IP addresses entirely (like libapache2-mod-removeip does for Apache) or put them through a custom filter (that might e.g. filter out all IP addresses that are not on an explicit white list containing company-internal IP addresses). Sascha [1] https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/ip-adressen/index.html -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (100, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
