Obfuscating user data for analytics

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This feature allows you to obscure data before sending it as part of the analytics payload. With this feature, Apigee uses SHA512 to hash the original value before communicating from the runtime plane to the control plane.

This feature is for Apigee hybrid 1.2 and newer only.

Procedure

Enable this feature by settingfeatures.analytics.data.obfuscation.enabled to true.

When usingPUT, be careful to include the entire set of properties for your environment. PUT overwrites the entire property set each time you issue it.
curl -v -X PUT \   https://apigee.googleapis.com/v1/organizations/YOUR_ORG_NAME/environments/YOUR_ENV_NAME \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \  -d '{  "name" : "YOUR_ENV_NAME",  "properties" : {    "property" : [ {      "name" : "features.analytics.data.obfuscation.enabled",      "value" : "true"    },]  }}'

With obfuscation enabled, Apigee hybrid will hash the following fields with SHA512 at the runtime plane before sending the information to analytics backend:

  • client_id
  • client_ip
  • developer_email
  • proxy_client_ip
  • proxy_pathsuffix
  • request_urirequest_path
  • target_basepath
  • target_url
  • x_forwarded_for_ip
  • x-apigee.edge.true_client_ip
  • x-apigee.intelligence.client_ip_header

Apigee hybrid will hash the following dimension values in custom analytics reports:

  • Client ID
  • Client IP Address
  • Developer Email
  • Proxy Client IP
  • Proxy Path Suffix
  • Referred Client IP
  • Request Path
  • Request URI
  • Resolved Client IP
  • Target Base Path
  • Target URL
  • X Forwarded For

See Analytics metrics, dimensions, and filters reference for detailed descriptions of analytics dimensions.

Viewing obfuscated results

The obfuscated results display in the Apigee hybrid analytics dashboard. It may take several minutes before you see the hashed results in the UI.

Custom reports showing hashed user data

Note: Analytics reports will display unhashed data communicated from the runtime plane before you enabled obfuscating or after you disable it.
Custom reports showing mixed hashed and unhashed user data

Example

The following example shows the data before and after obfuscating:

// JSON data sent to AX before obfuscating{"proxy_basepath":"/APP_NAME","x-apigee.edge.execution.stats.request_flow_endtimestamp":1582770652814,"apiproxy":"APP_NAME","x-apigee.edge.is_policy_error":0,"client_sent_start_timestamp":1582770652817,"x-apigee.edge.is_target_error":0,"client_received_start_timestamp":1582770652813,"client_ip":"10.10.0.99","is_error":false,"x-apigee.edge.stats.steps":"{\"JS1.0\":1}","request_size":0,"x-apigee.intelligence.client_ip_header":"10.10.0.99","virtual_host":"default","x-apigee.edge.mp_host":"mp","sla":false,"x-apigee.intelligence.service":"{}","client_sent_end_timestamp":1582770652817,"request_uri":"/APP_NAME","proxy":"default","proxy_client_ip":"10.10.0.99","x-apigee.edge.dn.region":"dc-1","apigee.edge.execution.is_apigee_fault":0,"x-apigee.edge.target.latency.stats":"{\"targetList\":[]}","useragent":"Apache-HttpClient/4.3.6 (java 1.5)","proxy_pathsuffix":"","x-apigee.edge.execution.stats.request_flow_start_timestamp":1582770652814,"x_forwarded_for_ip":"10.10.0.99","x_forwarded_proto":"http","response_status_code":200,"request_verb":"GET","x-apigee.edge.execution.stats.response_flow_end_timestamp":1582770652816,"gateway_source":"message_processor","environment":"env_82hw","client_received_end_timestamp":1582770652814,"organization":"Org_1582769880344","x-apigee.edge.execution.stats.response_flow_start_timestamp":1582770652814,"request_path":"/APP_NAME","gateway_flow_id":"rt-8644-188-1","apiproxy_revision":"1"}
// JSON data sent to AX after obfuscating{"proxy_basepath":"/APP_NAME","x-apigee.edge.execution.stats.request_flow_endtimestamp":1582749361836,"apiproxy":"APP_NAME","x-apigee.edge.is_policy_error":0,"client_sent_start_timestamp":1582749361884,"x-apigee.edge.is_target_error":0,"client_received_start_timestamp":1582749361790,"client_ip":"090cdae81ea6e58e55093f702661cf2325cef6a68aa801f1209e73bb0649c2b931bcad468911da887a42ce1d1daee07b24933e3dbbde6eb7438cfc9020a25445","is_error":false,"x-apigee.edge.stats.steps":"{\"JS1.0\":30}","request_size":0,"x-apigee.intelligence.client_ip_header":"090cdae81ea6e58e55093f702661cf2325cef6a68aa801f1209e73bb0649c2b931bcad468911da887a42ce1d1daee07b24933e3dbbde6eb7438cfc9020a25445","virtual_host":"default","x-apigee.edge.mp_host":"mp","sla":false,"x-apigee.intelligence.service":"{}","client_sent_end_timestamp":1582749361886,"request_uri":"0176937d9c4a33094d3c3f38ac8b15fa05dd6380a6bb544e4002c98de9f27bdbfea754901b0acb487f4980b09f7d312ad1e7027b96b2c8bfd8b9c24e833fbb5a","proxy":"default","proxy_client_ip":"090cdae81ea6e58e55093f702661cf2325cef6a68aa801f1209e73bb0649c2b931bcad468911da887a42ce1d1daee07b24933e3dbbde6eb7438cfc9020a25445","x-apigee.edge.dn.region":"dc-1","apigee.edge.execution.is_apigee_fault":0,"x-apigee.edge.target.latency.stats":"{\"targetList\":[]}","useragent":"Apache-HttpClient/4.3.6 (java 1.5)","proxy_pathsuffix":"cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b931bd47417a81a538327af927da3e","x-apigee.edge.execution.stats.request_flow_start_timestamp":1582749361833,"x_forwarded_for_ip":"090cdae81ea6e58e55093f702661cf2325cef6a68aa801f1209e73bb0649c2b931bcad468911da887a42ce1d1daee07b24933e3dbbde6eb7438cfc9020a25445","x_forwarded_proto":"http","response_status_code":200,"request_verb":"GET","x-apigee.edge.execution.stats.response_flow_end_timestamp":1582749361874,"gateway_source":"message_processor","environment":"env_xj25","client_received_end_timestamp":1582749361821,"organization":"Org_1582749068984","x-apigee.edge.execution.stats.response_flow_start_timestamp":1582749361836,"request_path":"0176937d9c4a33094d3c3f38ac8b15fa05dd6380a6bb544e4002c98de9f27bdbfea754901b0acb487f4980b09f7d312ad1e7027b96b2c8bfd8b9c24e833fbb5a","gateway_flow_id":"rt-6290-57-1","apiproxy_revision":"1"}

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