Telemetry
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Cerbos developers rely on anonymous usage data to help prioritise new features and improve the product. The information collected is completely anonymous, never shared with external entities, and you can opt out at any time.
What kind of data is collected?
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Cerbos build information like version, commit and build date
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Operating system type and architecture
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Enabled Cerbos features (storage backend type and schema enforcement level are some examples of this information)
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Aggregated statistics about the policies like the total number of policies and average number of rules in a policy
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Aggregated statistics about Cerbos API calls and the gRPC user agents.
You can view the full schema of the telemetry data on GitHub or on the Buf schema registry.
We use Rudderstack to collect the data. Only a small number of Zenauth (the company leading the development of Cerbos) employees have access to the data.
How to disable telemetry collection
There are multiple ways in which you can disable telemetry collection.
Use the configuration file
Set telemetry.disabled: true
in the Cerbos configuration file.
telemetry:
disabled: true
Set an environment variable
Set CERBOS_NO_TELEMETRY=1
or CERBOS_NO_TELEMETRY=true
in your environment. We also honour the DO_NOT_TRACK
environment variable if it exists.
CERBOS_NO_TELEMETRY=1 ./cerbos server --config=/path/to/.cerbos.yaml
docker run -i -t -p 3592:3592 \
-e CERBOS_NO_TELEMETRY=true \
ghcr.io/cerbos/cerbos:0.35.1
Through the command line
Start Cerbos with --set=telemetry.disabled=true
command line flag.
./cerbos server --config=/path/to/.cerbos.yaml --set=telemetry.disabled=true
docker run -i -t -p 3592:3592 \
ghcr.io/cerbos/cerbos:0.35.1 \
server --set=telemetry.disabled=true