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Managing alerts from secret scanning

Learn how to find, evaluate, and resolve alerts for secrets stored in your repository.

Who can use this feature?

Secret scanning is available for the following repositories:

Learn about the different types of secret scanning alerts.

Learn how to find and filter secret scanning alerts for your repository.

Learn about additional features that can help you evaluate alerts and prioritize their remediation, such as checking a secret's validity.

After reviewing the details of a secret scanning alert, you should fix and then close the alert.

Learn how and when GitHub Enterprise Server will notify you about a secret scanning alert.