Telemetry on Percona Everest¶

In creating Percona Everest, we leveraged our years of experience in open-source database development, and collaborated closely with the Percona community through interviews to ensure our new product will meet your needs.

Product telemetry fills-in the gaps in our understanding of how you are actually using Everest, to help us build the best-in-class cloud-native database platform for the open-source community.

Participation in this anonymous program is optional, and you can opt-out if you prefer not to share any information. Read our privacy statement to learn more.

What information is collected¶

Currently, Everest only collects information about the database technology used (MySQL, Mongo, PostgreSQL). Future releases will cover additional metrics.

Rest assured, access to the raw data is rigorously controlled, and individual user identification within the dataset is impossible. The data is thoroughly anonymized and cannot be traced back to any specific user.

Disable telemetry¶

Starting with Everest 0.4.1, telemetry is enabled by default. If you don’t want to send usage data to Percona, you can set the DISABLE_TELEMETRY environment variable to TRUE:

When installing Everest using the quick install script, set the DISABLE_TELEMETRY env variable to True:
```
export DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true
```

Restart the Everest backend:

docker compose -f quickstart.yml restart everest

Run the Everest upgrade command so the underlying operators apply the new setting as well:
```
./everestctl upgrade
```

Enable telemetry again¶

To re-enable telemetry:

Set the DISABLE_TELEMETRY environment variable to false:
```
export DISABLE_TELEMETRY=false
```

Restart the Everest backend:

docker compose -f quickstart.yml restart everest

Run the Everest provisioning again to make sure that the underlying operators apply the new setting as well:
```
./everestctl upgrade
```

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