Top 6 things to Avoid Logging

Following are some of the things you may not want to write in the log file or write in masked form:

Passwords (goes without saying)
Database connection strings
Encryption keys/access tokens
Sensitive personal data
Session identification value (must be masked)
File Paths (consider masking)

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