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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 repository types:

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

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

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