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Custom patterns

You can extend the capabilities of secret scanning to search for your own patterns. These custom patterns can range from your service API keys to connection strings into cloud resources.

Who can use this feature?

Custom patterns for secret scanning is available for the following repositories:

  • Public, private, and internal repositories in organizations using GitHub Enterprise Cloud with GitHub Advanced Security enabled

Defining custom patterns for secret scanning

You can define your own custom patterns to extend the capabilities of secret scanning by generating one or more regular expressions.

Managing custom patterns

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

Metrics for custom patterns

You can view alert metrics for custom patterns at the repository, organization, and enterprise levels.