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Logging User Search Queries with Sensitive Data

TLDR J asked for methods to log user search queries. Jason suggested instrumenting the frontend app but J preferred duplicating http requests due to sensitive data.

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J

10:29 PM

Hi anyone know a way to have audit logs on search queries done by users?

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Jason

10:30 PM

You would have to instrument your frontend app to collect the search queries that users type into the textbox, and send the data into your analytics tool

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Jason

10:30 PM

Here’s more context: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/search-analytics.html

J

10:39 PM

Makes sense, but we're working with sensitive data and there's a slight chance advanced users can easily mess up with that front-end based tracking. I think a possible solution for us is to mirror / duplicate the http requests sent to typesense, sending a copy of it to our logging servers. I think HAProxy / NGINX / Traefik can help us on that. Thanks for the idea!

Jason

10:39 PM

Yup, that’s another way to do it

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