# How to hide or scrub data logs in Elasticsearch?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-or-scrub-data-logs-in-elasticsearch/142268>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 31, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-or-scrub-data-logs-in-elasticsearch/142268 "2018-07-31T03:02:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![cheleyace](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cheleyace/32/27504_2.png) [@cheleyace](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheleyace)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-or-scrub-data-logs-in-elasticsearch/142268/1 "2018-07-31T03:02:14Z")

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Hello,

Is there an approach for scrubbing data logs - if a user requested to delete his/her information from security logs? Data should not be deleted it just need to be hide after that the filtered data logs will be shown in Kibana.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-or-scrub-data-logs-in-elasticsearch/142268/2 "2018-07-31T03:09:06Z")

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> [@cheleyace](#):
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> if a user requested to delete his/her information from security logs? Data should not be deleted it just need to be hide after that the filtered data logs will be shown in Kibana.

At the risk of being off topic, that's a bit of a breach of trust isn't it?

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**Author:** ![cheleyace](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cheleyace/32/27504_2.png) [@cheleyace](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheleyace)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-or-scrub-data-logs-in-elasticsearch/142268/3 "2018-07-31T03:12:14Z")

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Hello warkolm,

Not really. It's for GDPR requirement - Data masking.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-or-scrub-data-logs-in-elasticsearch/142268/4 "2018-07-31T03:14:29Z")

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If it's GDPR, I am pretty sure you can't have someone ask to delete and then just hide it from them.

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**Author:** ![cheleyace](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cheleyace/32/27504_2.png) [@cheleyace](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheleyace)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-or-scrub-data-logs-in-elasticsearch/142268/5 "2018-07-31T03:42:34Z")

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Data logs shouldn't be deleted. It's just need to be hidden or we could say not be able to identify the actual user of these logs as per GDPR requirement.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-or-scrub-data-logs-in-elasticsearch/142268/6 "2018-07-31T05:00:14Z")

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Ok, well you can do this with Security - [https://www.elastic.co/products/stack/security](https://www.elastic.co/products/stack/security)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-or-scrub-data-logs-in-elasticsearch/142268/7 "2018-08-28T05:14:28Z")

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