title: 'Telemetry'
sidebar_label: 'Telemetry'
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description: 'Learn how Spice AI uses anonymous telemetry.'
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Spice collects anonymous telemetry data to help improve the product. Telemetry is enabled by default but can be disabled at any time.
Data Collected
The following anonymous information is collected:
- The version of Spice being used (i.e.
v1.0.0)
- An anonymous identifier for the Spice instance, computed as
sha256(hostname + spicepod.name).
- An anonymous identifier for the Spicepod, computed as
sha256(spicepod.name).
- The shape of the host: its vCPU count, GPU count, and total memory in bytes, reported as
host.cpu.count, host.gpu.count, and host.memory.bytes.
- Various metrics related to usage of features of the runtime, see the full list here: https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/blob/v1.11.6/crates/telemetry/src/lib.rs (opens in a new tab)
Data collected is sent to https://telemetry.spiceai.org once every hour.
Disabling Telemetry
Telemetry can be disabled in one of three ways:
- Running the Spice runtime with the CLI flag
--telemetry-enabled false:
spice run -- --telemetry-enabled false
spice run -- --telemetry-enabled false
or
spiced --telemetry-enabled false
spiced --telemetry-enabled false
- Add the following configuration to the Spicepod configuration file (
spicepod.yaml):
runtime:
telemetry:
enabled: false
runtime:
telemetry:
enabled: false
- Compile the Spice runtime without the
anonymous_telemetry default feature:
cargo build --release --no-default-features --features "<other_default_features>"
cargo build --release --no-default-features --features "<other_default_features>"
i.e.
cargo build --release --no-default-features --features "duckdb,postgres,sqlite,mysql,flightsql,delta_lake,databricks,dremio,clickhouse,spark,snowflake,ftp,debezium"
cargo build --release --no-default-features --features "duckdb,postgres,sqlite,mysql,flightsql,delta_lake,databricks,dremio,clickhouse,spark,snowflake,ftp,debezium"
