# Strip Headers/Environment Variables from payloads **URL:** \ **Category:** APM\ **Created:** [December 18, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strip-headers-environment-variables-from-payloads/161421 "2018-12-18T22:32:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![krainboltgreene](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/krainboltgreene/32/37174_2.png) [@krainboltgreene](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krainboltgreene)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strip-headers-environment-variables-from-payloads/161421/1 "2018-12-18T22:32:42Z")
Currently we're seeing that the Ruby APM agent inserting environment variables and headers. Is there any way to strip this information? ---
**Author:** ![felixbarny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/felixbarny/32/27341_2.png) [@felixbarny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/felixbarny)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strip-headers-environment-variables-from-payloads/161421/2 "2018-12-19T07:46:49Z")
Hi and thanks for your question. Seems like you have already found the corresponding issue: [https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-ruby/issues/275](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-ruby/issues/275) There is currently no option do disable recording of `env` but it seems to me like it would make a lot of sense. Especially when configuring something like `ELASTIC_APM_SECRET_TOKEN` in environment variables, you'd probably want do disable env recording. Cheers, Felix ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 3:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strip-headers-environment-variables-from-payloads/161421/3 "2019-01-09T03:47:09Z")
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