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:

Public repositories (for free)
Private and internal repositories in organizations using GitHub Enterprise Cloud with GitHub Advanced Security enabled
User-owned repositories for GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Enterprise Managed Users

Learn about the different types of secret scanning alerts.

Learn how to find and filter secret scanning alerts for users 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 Cloud will notify you about a secret scanning alert.