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authorJob van der Voort <jobvandervoort@gmail.com>2017-05-03 14:24:38 +0100
committerSean McGivern <sean@gitlab.com>2017-05-11 09:20:12 +0100
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update the documentation to reflect upcoming changes to the usage pingdisable-usage-ping
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@@ -28,60 +28,13 @@ for all signed in users.
[were added][ee-735] in GitLab Enterprise Edition
8.12. [Moved 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
-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
-names, author names, comment bodies, names of labels, etc.
-
-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.:
-
-- Comments
-- Groups
-- Users
-- Projects
-- Issues
-- Labels
-- CI builds
-- Snippets
-- Milestones
-- Todos
-- Pushes
-- Merge requests
-- Environments
-- Triggers
-- Deploy keys
-- Pages
-- Project Services
-- Projects using the Prometheus service
-- Issue Boards
-- CI Runners
-- Deployments
-- Geo Nodes
-- LDAP Groups
-- LDAP Keys
-- LDAP Users
-- LFS objects
-- Protected branches
-- Releases
-- Remote mirrors
-- Uploads
-- Web hooks
-
-Also, we track if you've installed Mattermost with GitLab.
-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
-the calculation is made.
+GitLab sends a weekly payload containing usage data to GitLab Inc. The usage
+ping uses high-level data to help our product, support, and sales teams. It does
+not send any project names, usernames, or any other specific data. The
+information from the usage ping is not anonymous, it is linked to the hostname
+of the instance.
+
+You can view the exact JSON payload in the administration panel.
### Deactivate the usage ping
@@ -89,8 +42,8 @@ By default, usage ping is opt-out. If you want to deactivate this feature, go to
the Settings page of your administration panel and uncheck the Usage ping
checkbox.
-To disable the usage ping and prevent it from being configured from the
-administration panel, Omnibus installs can set the following in
+To disable the usage ping and prevent it from being configured in future through
+the administration panel, Omnibus installs can set the following in
[`gitlab.rb`](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/configuration.html#configuration-options):
```ruby
@@ -107,14 +60,6 @@ production: &base
usage_ping_enabled: false
```
-## Privacy policy
-
-GitLab Inc. does **not** collect any sensitive information, like project names
-or the content of the comments. GitLab Inc. does not disclose or otherwise make
-available any of the data collected on a customer specific basis.
-
-Read more about this in the [Privacy policy](https://about.gitlab.com/privacy).
-
[ee-557]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/557
[ee-735]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/735
[ce-23361]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/23361