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title: "Privacy friendlier Nginx logging"
author: "Vrifox"
date: 2021-05-15T21:49:54+02:00
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Yesterday I changed the logging behaviour of my nginx. I did this to make it more privacy friendly and to declutter my log files. \
The ip address anonymization part is taken from [Ascraues Privacy Policy ](https://ascraeus.org/page/privacy/).

```
map $remote_addr $anon_remote_addr {
  ~(?P<ip>\d+\.\d+)\.         $ip.0.0;
  ~(?P<ip>[^:]+:[^:]+):       $ip::;
  default                     0.0.0.0;
}

log_format privacy '$anon_remote_addr [$time_local] '
                   '"$request" $status $bytes_sent ';

access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log privacy;
```