How-tos for customizing secret leak detection

Protect your unique secret types by defining custom patterns with regular expressions.

You can view, edit, and remove custom patterns, as well as enable push protection for custom patterns.

You can customize secret scanning to automatically close alerts for secrets found in specific directories or files by configuring a secret_scanning.yml file in your repository.

Learn how to enable extended metadata checks for detected secrets so alerts detected by secret scanning include additional information that help you assess and remediate leaks faster.