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"title": "Telemetry",

"description": "How we collect and use your data",

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Coder collects telemetry data from all free installations. Our users have the right to know what we collect, why we collect it, and how we use the data.

First of all, we do not collect any information that could threaten the security of your

installation. For example, we do not collect parameters,

environment variables, or passwords.

You can find a full list of the data we collect in the source code [here](https://github.com/coder/coder/blob/main/coderd/telemetry/telemetry.go).

We offer three levels of telemetry that can be configured with the

`CODER_TELEMETRY=x` environment variable. For example, telemetry level 1 can

be configured with `CODER_TELEMETRY=1`.

`CODER_TELEMETRY=2` is our default level. It includes user email and

IP addresses. This information is used in aggregate to understand where our

users are and general demographic information. We may reach out to the

deployment admin, but will never use these emails for outbound marketing.

`CODER_TELEMETRY=1` is our lightweight telemetry setting. It excludes

email and IP addresses, but everything else in the aforementioned source

code is still sent out. In this level, it is nearly impossible for Coder

to associate an installation to specific organizations or users.

`CODER_TELEMETRY=0` disables telemetry altogether. We reserve this setting

for our enterprise customers. You can also reach out to contact@coder.com if

you need a zero-telemetry license due to security policy requirements.

We use telemetry to build product better and faster. Without telemetry, we don't

know which features are most useful, we don't know where users are dropping

off in our funnel, and we don't know if our roadmap is aligned with the

demographics that really use Coder.

Typical SaaS companies collect far more than what we do with little transparency

and configurability. It's hard to imagine our favorite products today existing

without their backers having good intelligence.

We've decided the only way we can make our product open-source _and_ build

at a fast pace is by collecting usage data as well.