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authorSean McGivern <sean@gitlab.com>2017-04-06 13:18:34 +0100
committerRémy Coutable <remy@rymai.me>2017-04-14 15:20:55 +0200
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Tidy up usage ping and cohorts docs
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@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ for all signed in users.
## Usage ping
> [Introduced][ee-557] in GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.10. More statistics
-[were added][ee-735] in GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.12. [Moved to CE][ce-23361]
-in GitLab 9.1.
+[were added][ee-735] in GitLab Enterprise Edition
+8.12. [Introduced to GitLab Community Edition][ce-23361] in 9.1.
GitLab Inc. can collect non-sensitive information about how GitLab users
use their GitLab instance upon the activation of a ping feature
@@ -35,13 +35,12 @@ located in the admin panel (`/admin/application_settings`).
You can see the **exact** JSON payload that your instance sends to GitLab
in the "Usage statistics" section of the admin panel.
-Nothing qualitative is collected. Only quantitative. That means no project name,
-author name, nature of comments, name of labels, etc.
+Nothing qualitative is collected. Only quantitative. That means no project
+names, author names, comment bodies, names of labels, etc.
-The usage ping is sent for the following reasons:
-
-- to have a better understanding on how our users use our product,
-- to be more data driven when creating or changing features.
+The usage ping is sent in order for GitLab Inc. to have a better understanding
+of how our users use our product, and to be more data-driven when creating or
+changing features.
The total number of the following is sent back to GitLab Inc.:
@@ -81,7 +80,7 @@ For example: `"mattermost_enabled":true"`.
More data will be added over time. The goal of this ping is to be as light as
possible, so it won't have any performance impact on your installation when
-calculation is made.
+the calculation is made.
### Deactivate the usage ping