If you are using Active Job for managing background jobs in Rails, you might have noticed that it logs the job arguments when the job is enqueued or run. Let's see an example of this.
class ImportDataJob < ApplicationJob
queue_as :default
def perform(*args)
puts "Completed"
# Do something later
end
end
>> ImportDataJob.perform_later(password: "secret")
Enqueued ImportDataJob (Job ID: 4c44944b-0b1e-41ff-8679-c9757e09bdb2) to Async(default)
with arguments: {:password=>"secret"}
>> Performing ImportDataJob (Job ID: 4c44944b-0b1e-41ff-8679-c9757e09bdb2)
from Async(default)
enqueued at 2020-04-29T13:23:37Z
with arguments: {:password=>"secret"}
Completed
Performed ImportDataJob (Job ID: 4c44944b-0b1e-41ff-8679-c9757e09bdb2)
from Async(default) in 9.39ms
As we can, see Active Job logs the arguments two times, once when the job is enqueued and once when the job starts performing.
We can filter request parameters on the controller level using Rails.application.config.filter_parameters
configuration option so that sensitive parameters are not leaked in the logs. But if you are enqueuing such parameters to Active Job then the purpose of filtering them at controller level is defeated as they are logged at job level regardless.
A feature is now present in Rails master to fix this issue. We can disable logging for individual jobs by setting log_arguments
configuration option.
class ImportDataJob < ApplicationJob
queue_as :default
self.log_arguments = false
def perform(*args)
# Do something later
end
end
>> ImportDataJob.perform_later password: "secret"
Enqueued ImportDataJob (Job ID: 1c388f29-b83c-477c-a046-50837b8941e8)
to Async(default)
>> Performing ImportDataJob (Job ID: 1c388f29-b83c-477c-a046-50837b8941e8)
from Async(default) enqueued at 2020-04-29T13:39:31Z
Completed
Performed ImportDataJob (Job ID: 1c388f29-b83c-477c-a046-50837b8941e8)
from Async(default) in 5.81ms
We can see that now there is no trace of the arguments in the log.
By default the
log_arguments
setting is true for every job and we can customize it per job based on whether the job consumes sensitive data.
This feature is not yet released. It will be part of Rails 6.1. I will update this post when it is released.
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