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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 you run (without capturing values)
  • License information

How's data collected?​

Both the Upbound CLI and Upbound Control Plane collect telemetry data using the OpenTelemetry protocol. The system sends this data 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