diff --git a/ceilometer/opts.py b/ceilometer/opts.py
index 1c7c2d9753..4f6857dde4 100644
--- a/ceilometer/opts.py
+++ b/ceilometer/opts.py
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ def list_opts():
         ('coordination', [
             cfg.StrOpt(
                 'backend_url',
+                secret=True,
                 help='The backend URL to use for distributed coordination. If '
                 'left empty, per-deployment central agent and per-host '
                 'compute agent won\'t do workload '