# Possible to not log user IP addresses?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-not-log-user-ip-addresses/46502>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 27, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-not-log-user-ip-addresses/46502 "2016-06-27T11:52:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 7:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-not-log-user-ip-addresses/46502/16 "2017-08-20T07:34:08Z")

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Privacy of the _never log IP addresses_ sort is a real outlier. Most admins want to have IP addresses for some amount of time for identifying rogue behavior. For example, password change requests are limited to a certain number per hour per account per IP address (pretty sure the limit there is 6). Take away IP and that doesn’t work.

So “Not our problem!” is a very unfair characterization of your request.

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