diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/howto.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/howto.adoc index 3cc0f50c74..7d9a189a53 100644 --- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/howto.adoc +++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/howto.adoc @@ -2166,7 +2166,8 @@ See also the section on "`<>`" for [[howto-sanitize-sensible-values]] -=== Sanitize sensible values +[[howto-sanitize-sensitive-values]] +=== Sanitize Sensitive Values Information returned by the `env` and `configprops` endpoints can be somewhat sensitive so keys matching a certain pattern are sanitized by default (i.e. their values are replaced by `+******+`). Spring Boot uses sensible defaults for such keys: for instance, any key ending with the word "password", "secret", "key" or "token" is sanitized.