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Telemetry

Upbound collects telemetry data to improve the product and provide better support to our users.

What data is collected?​

Upbound collects the following telemetry data:

  • Version information for the Upbound CLI and Upbound Control Plane
  • Basic consumption information, such as the number of operations performed and claims created
  • Feature flag usage statistics
  • Component version information
  • up CLI commands that are executed (without capturing values)
  • License information

How's data collected?​

Telemetry data is collected by both the Upbound CLI and Upbound Control Plane using the OpenTelemetry protocol. This data is sent securely to the Upbound telemetry service.

How to opt out​

You can opt out of telemetry collection at any time using the methods below.

Upbound CLI​

Two ways to disable telemetry for the Upbound CLI:

Option 1: Environment variable

Set the DO_NOT_TRACK environment variable to true before running the up CLI:

# See https://consoledonottrack.com/ for more information
export DO_NOT_TRACK=true

Option 2: Configuration command

Run the following command to permanently disable telemetry in your CLI configuration:

up config set telemetry.disabled true

Upbound Control Plane​

Environment variable

Set the UPBOUND_TELEMETRY_DISABLED environment variable to true:

export UPBOUND_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true

Helm installation

When installing the Upbound Control Plane with Helm, you can disable telemetry by providing the following value:

telemetry:
  disabled: true