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Version: v26.0

Telemetry and Data Collection

Summary​

The following explains the telemetry mechanism built in to DH2i products as of version 26.0.

Information​

DH2i products include a telemetry mechanism that collects anonymized usage information on a regular basis.

Information Collected​

The telemetry mechanism collects usage information, including:

  • The name and installed versions of the DH2i product being used
  • The host operating systems and versions
  • The configured languages/localizations
  • The names and versions of the security libraries in use (OpenSSL/Schannel)
  • The versions of the dotnet runtime in use
  • The versions of Microsoft SQL Server installed
  • Product features actively in use
  • Types of disk file systems in use

The exact data that is collected can be viewed using the get-telemetry-data DxCLI command. Example output is shown below:

{
  "product": "DxEnterprise",
  "ver": [
    "26.0.236.0"
  ],
  "nodes": 2,
  "os": [
    "Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
  ],
  "osk": [
    "Linux version 5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2 (root@f9c826d3017f) (gcc (GCC) 11.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.37) #1 SMP Tue Nov 5 00:21:55 UTC 2024"
  ],
  "lang": [
    "127"
  ],
  "sec": [
    "OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022"
  ],
  "dotnet": [
    ".NET 8.0.24"
  ],
  "mssql": [
    "16.0.4236.2"
  ],
  "apps": [
    "AGS"
  ],
  "feat": [
    "TUN",
    "DXOP"
  ],
  "netconf": [
    "ALL"
  ]
}

Collection Schedule​

Telemetry data is collected once per cluster, and transmitted to DH2i on Sunday between the hours of 02:00 and 03:00 UTC.

Disabling / Opt-Out​

Transmission of telemetry data requires Internet access, and will not function on an isolated network.

Telemetry can be disabled using the telemetry.disable globalsetting:

dxcli set-globalsetting telemetry.disable 1