# Possible to not log user IP addresses?

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**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:** ![mpalmer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mpalmer/32/45740_2.png) [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 11:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-not-log-user-ip-addresses/46502/2 "2016-06-27T11:58:41Z")

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There are a number of anti-abuse measures that rely on having knowledge of the client IP address in order to function. Also, the client IP is logged in a _number_ of places, including at least two different log files (nginx access log and rails log), so you’ll need to modify some pretty deep config in order to get rid of those, too. And yes, I’d say you’re likely going to need to fork to eradicate all those.

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