Telemetry poll results and their implications

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 20:23:00 GMT

Our previous post regarding the prospect of introducing telemetry ended up pretty divisive. Apart from the sensitive nature of the topic itself, there were some poor wording and poll design mistakes that made it look more evil than we ever planned it to be. Still, we were able to collect feedback. Thanks to all who participated! Now let’s discuss the results and what it means for the telemetry module design.

Anonymous stats collection from VyOS routers: we need your opinions!

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Fri, 29 May 2020 16:30:15 GMT

The T-word. Telemetry. Everyone hates it, not least because the most widely known implementations are unambiguously evil. We hate collection and sale of personal information as much as you do, so before we dive deeper into the subject, let’s set it straight: we will never collect any personally identifiable information from VyOS devices without explicit consent, ever.

However, not collecting anything at all does limit our ability to correctly prioritize issues. Now we are thinking of including anonymous stats collection into VyOS images (rolling and LTS alike) by default, and it needs a broad and serious discussion with the community. Our preliminary plan is to enable collection of basic usage stats by default, and provide CLI options to enable more detailed reporting. For that we need to know what people wouldn't hesitate to share by default, so we included a poll in this post.

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Telemetry poll results and their implications

Anonymous stats collection from VyOS routers: we need your opinions!