Telemetry Overview

Telemetry Guide

• Introduction

• What data is collected

• Where data is sent

Introduction

Devtron collects anonymous telemetry data that helps the Devtron team in understanding how the product is being used and in deciding what to focus on next.

The data collected is minimal, non PII, statistical in nature and cannot be used to uniquely identify an user.

Please see the next section to see what data is collected and sent. Access to collected data is strictly limited to the Devtron team.

As a growing community, it is very valuable in helping us make the Devtron a better product for everyone!

What data is collected

Here is a sample event JSON which is collected and sent:

{
  "id": "017ah6af-8h60-0000-abfc-a0a25hd823d6",
  "timestamp": "2021-06-29T07:33:02.001000+00:00",
  "event": "Heartbeat",
  "distinct_id": "qadgrtuxogziz8ak",
  "properties": {
    "$geoip_city_name": "Columbus",
    "$geoip_continent_code": "NA",
    "$geoip_continent_name": "North America",
    "$geoip_country_code": "US",
    "$geoip_country_name": "United States",
    "$geoip_latitude": 39.9625,
    "$geoip_longitude": -83.0061,
    "$geoip_postal_code": "43215",
    "$geoip_subdivision_1_code": "OH",
    "$geoip_subdivision_1_name": "Ohio",
    "$geoip_time_zone": "America/New_York",
    "$ip": "18.117.165.2",
    "$lib": "posthog-go",
    "$lib_version": "1.0.2",
    "devtronVersion": "v1",
    "eventType": 0,
    "serverVersion": "v1.17.17",
    "timestamp": "2021-06-29T07:33:02.001372393Z",
    "ucid": "qadgrtuxogziz8ak"
  }
}

Key	Description
event	Name of the event
distinct_id	Unique user id or client id
devtronVersion	devtron version
serverVersion	kubernetes cluster version
eventType	event type
ucid	Unique client id

Inception (operator)

Inception sends the installation and upgradation events of the Devtron tool to measure the churn rate.

Events which are sent by Inception :

• InstallationStart

• InstallationInProgress

• InstallationSuccess

• UpgradeStart

• UpgradeInProgress

• UpgradeSuccess

Event is same as sample json with event name mentioned above.

Devtron (orchestrator)

Orchestrator sends the summary events of the Devtron tool to measure the daily usage.

Events which are sent by Orchestrator :

• Heartbeat

• Summary

Orchestrator sends the Summary event once in 24 hours with the daily operation done by user.

Here is a sample summary JSON which is available under properties:

{
  "summary": {
    "cdCountPerDay": 1,
    "ciCountPerDay": 1,
    "clusterCount": 1,
    "environmentCount": 1,
    "nonProdAppCount": 1,
    "userCount": 2
  }
}

Key	Description
cdCountPerDay	cd pipeline created in last 24 hour
ciCountPerDay	ci pipeline created in last 24 hour
clusterCount	total cluster in the system
environmentCount	total environment in the system
nonProdAppCount	total non prod apps created
userCount	total user created in the system

Dashboard(Not Collected Anymore)

Dashboard sends the events to measure dashboard visit of the Devtron tool.

Events which are sent by Orchestrator : * identify

Dashboard sends the identify event when user visits the Dashboard for the first time.

Where data is sent

The data is sent to Posthog server.