title: 'Telemetry' sidebar_label: 'Telemetry' sidebar_position: 3 description: 'Learn how Spice AI uses anonymous telemetry.' pagination_next: null

Spice collects anonymous telemetry data, which is used to help understand how to improve the product in future versions.

Data collected includes:

• 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 code to calculate these identifiers is here: https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/blob/v1.8.3/crates/telemetry/src/anonymous.rs#L47-L70 (opens in a new tab)
• Various metrics related to usage of features of the runtime, see the full list here: https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/blob/v1.8.3/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:

1. 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

2. Add the following configuration to the Spicepod configuration file (spicepod.yaml):

runtime:
  telemetry:
    enabled: false

runtime:
  telemetry:
    enabled: false

3. 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"