Anonymizing investigative reports

If you want to prevent identifying information from appearing in investigative reports, you have several options.

• The most absolute method is to prevent the logging of user names, source IP addresses, and hostnames. In this case, no user-identifying information is recorded in the Log Database, making it impossible for investigative or presentation reports to include the information. See Configuring how requests are logged, for instructions.
• If some administrators need access to reports that include user information, but other administrators should never see user information, use delegated administration roles to control reporting access. You can configure roles to grant access to investigative reports, but hide user names in reports. See Delegated Administration and Reporting, for details.
• If you sometimes need to generate reports that contain user information, but sometimes need to generate anonymous reports, use the Anonymous option at the top of the Investigative Reports page to hide user names and, optionally, source IP addresses temporarily, as described below.