Mention anonymous statistics in additional places in the docs (#6084)
Chris Akritidis committed
May 23, 2019 at 19:20 UTC
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README.md
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+From Netdata v1.12 and above, anonymous usage information is collected by default and sent to Google Analytics. To read more about the information collected and how to opt-out, check the [anonymous statistics page](docs/anonymous-statistics.md).
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## Why Netdata
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Netdata has a quite different approach to monitoring.
docs/anonymous-statistics.md
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# Anonymous Statistics
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-From Netdata v1.12 and above, anonymous usage information is collected by default and send to Google Analytics.
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+From Netdata v1.12 and above, anonymous usage information is collected by default and sent to Google Analytics.
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The statistics calculated from this information will be used for:
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1. **Quality assurance**, to help us understand if netdata behaves as expected and help us identify repeating issues for certain distributions or environment.
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- The anonymous statistics script will exit immediately if called via any other way (e.g. shell)
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- The Google Tag Manager Javascript snippet will remain in the page, but the linked tag will not be fired. The effect is that no data will ever be sent to GA.
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+You can also disable telemetry by passing the option `--disable-telemetry` to any of the installers.
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netdata-installer.sh
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# Opt-out from telemetry program
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if [ -n "${NETDATA_DISABLE_TELEMETRY+x}" ]; then
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touch "${NETDATA_USER_CONFIG_DIR}/.opt-out-from-anonymous-statistics"
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+ progress "You can opt out from anonymous statistics via the --disable-telemetry option, or by creating an empty file ${NETDATA_USER_CONFIG_DIR}/.opt-out-from-anonymous-statistics"
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packaging/installer/README.md
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See also the list of Netdata [package maintainers](../maintainers) for ASUSTOR NAS, OpenWRT, ReadyNAS, etc.
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+Note: From Netdata v1.12 and above, anonymous usage information is collected by default and sent to Google Analytics. To read more about the information collected and how to opt-out, check the [anonymous statistics page](../../docs/anonymous-statistics.md).
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## One line installation