# What is GitGuardian used for?

What is GitGuardian used for?

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- Posted at: almost 3 years ago
- Author title: Pinned by G2 as a common question
- Net upvotes: 3


## Comments
### Comment 1

GitGuardian is mainly used to detect exposed secrets like API keys, passwords, tokens, and credentials in our code and GitHub repositories. We used it for the HexaFalls website to catch these issues early and keep the project more secure

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- Posted at: about 2 hours ago
- Author title: Support Lead



### Comment 2

Hi, it's used for situations where you accidentally push code to GitHub, where you've forgotten to use environment variables for - for example - and some private api key is now exposed and anyone can see it.

Gitguardian reads through your code and checks if such mistakes happened, if they did you get notified by email, and you can solve it asap, so that noone sees it before you do.

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- Posted at: over 2 years ago
- Author title: Full Stack Engineer




## Related Product
[GitGuardian](https://www.g2.com/products/gitguardian/reviews)

## Related Category
[Static Application Security Testing (SAST)](https://www.g2.com/categories/static-application-security-testing-sast)

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