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Support PII/Sensitive Data Masking for Externally Ingested OTEL Traces

Organizations may ingest OpenTelemetry (OTEL) traces from external applications, services, or third-party systems. When PII masking controls are enabled, sensitive information contained within these externally generated traces is currently not redacted before storage and display.

This creates a gap in privacy and compliance controls, as data masking behavior is not consistently applied across all telemetry sources.

Current Behavior

  • Externally generated OTEL traces are ingested and stored as received.
  • Existing PII masking controls apply to generated content but do not affect externally supplied telemetry payloads.
  • The observability layer does not perform masking or redaction on incoming OTEL trace data.

Expected Behavior

  • PII masking controls should optionally apply to externally ingested OTEL traces before storage and presentation.
  • Administrators should be able to configure masking policies for sensitive information within telemetry payloads.
  • Privacy controls should behave consistently regardless of the source of telemetry data.
Idea priority Urgent
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