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Telemetry in Datu Server

Datu Server comes with a built-in telemetry system that gathers anonymous usage information.
This data helps the maintainers understand how the software is being used and guides ongoing improvements.

Why Telemetry?

Telemetry provides valuable feedback without exposing personal or sensitive information.
It allows the team to:

  • Measure how features are being adopted.
  • Detect common usage patterns and performance bottlenecks.
  • Prioritize enhancements that have the greatest impact.
  • Ensure the system evolves in line with real-world needs.

What Data Is Collected?

The telemetry system only collects non-identifiable, aggregated data such as:

  • Basic environment details (e.g., version, operating system).
  • Which features or APIs are being exercised.
  • MCP server names.
  • General performance metrics.

No private data, user content, or identifiers are captured such as: usernames, hostnames, file names, environment variables, or hostnames of systems being tested.

Where is telemetry information stored?

We use Posthog to store and visualize telemetry data.

PostHog is an open source platform for product analytics. Learn more at posthog.com or github.com/posthog.

Turning Telemetry Off

If you prefer not to share anonymous usage data, you can disable telemetry with an environment variable:

export DATU_ENABLE_ANONYMIZED_TELEMETRY=false