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by alias_neo 2326 days ago
Note that a ticket asking for the ability to turn off/remove/opt-out of data collection was closed as "wontfix".

The argument is that there will be an enterprise version to allow that, with "enterprise licensing".

https://github.com/lensapp/lens/issues/93

2 comments

From the wontfix issue:

> We collect data that you submit via kontena account registration. We collect data about events that are happening in Lens app: application started, application stopped, logged in, logged out, cluster settings page open, cluster view open, cluster feature X installed, cluster feature X uninstalled, cluster feature X upgraded, terminal opened and kubernetes resource applied. There is no metadata related to these collected. We are not collecting any kind of telemetry data from Lens app: for example we don't know how many clusters you might have, how many nodes you have, what is actually running in your cluster etc.

vs.

> It's the only way for the company behind the product to see how many users are actively using it.

That's a lot of data for the simple task of seeing how many users are actively using it.

There's a switch in "File > Preferences" to turn that off. Overall it's just usage about the tool, not data about the user that's using it.