I can no longer build as I get failures due to the new (afaik) secret scanning feature. I checked and they are false positives. The build log said to look here, Enhanced security with Secrets Controller | Netlify Docs , which documented setting SECRETS_SCAN_ENABLED to false. I did so, did a new buil…

For folks who may run into this, I still think we have a documentation issue, but, if you use false, not FALSE, it works. (I could remove one key and test again, but it’s Friday and past 5 and my build went through, so I’m satisfied.)

Docs are here: Secret scanning | Netlify Docs

Um, yes, I linked there, right? Did you see my note about how the error in the build log shows a different value then the docs?

Did you scroll down? I linked you to the correct header, you are looking in a different section. [image]

Err… ok… but I guess I’m confused then. I got the error in the build, and it did mention SECRETS_SCAN_SMART_DETECTION_ENABLED, but the doc it linked to, I first saw SECRETS_SCAN_ENABLED. Don’t you think it’s possible for folks to get confused? Heck, I can’t tell what the difference is. Can you expl…

Great question! I can understand why that would be confusing. This week, we rolled out a new feature, Smart Secret Scanning: [image] Smart Secret Scanning for AI-Generated Code | Netlify Netlify’s smart secret scanning automatically detects API keys, tokens, and credentials in code. Pro …

Hi @sid.m , I think this feature request helps to manage it better: Feature request: improve UX for SECRETS_SCAN_SMART_DETECTION_OMIT_VALUES .

This happens in my case as well. The secrets found made no sense whatsoever. Not a good first impression

Can't build due to secret scanning

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Smart_Office_Consult March 29, 2026, 10:52pm 8

Hi @hrishikesh . Please look here for a possible solution / feature improvement at low cost for Netlify: Feature request: improve UX for SECRETS_SCAN_SMART_DETECTION_OMIT_VALUES

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Can't build due to secret scanning

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