From b446d66be780c5b73f5b429033055e950edf27e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: morgankrey Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:25:39 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Telemetry docs cleanup (#35060) Release Notes: - N/A --- docs/src/telemetry.md | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/src/telemetry.md b/docs/src/telemetry.md index 20018b920a..7f5994be0c 100644 --- a/docs/src/telemetry.md +++ b/docs/src/telemetry.md @@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ The telemetry settings can also be configured via the welcome screen, which can Telemetry is sent from the application to our servers. Data is proxied through our servers to enable us to easily switch analytics services. We currently use: - [Axiom](https://axiom.co): Cloud-monitoring service - stores diagnostic events -- [Snowflake](https://snowflake.com): Business Intelligence platform - stores both diagnostic and metric events -- [Metabase](https://www.metabase.com): Dashboards - dashboards built around data pulled from Snowflake +- [Snowflake](https://snowflake.com): Data warehouse - stores both diagnostic and metric events +- [Hex](https://www.hex.tech): Dashboards and data exploration - accesses data stored in Snowflake +- [Amplitude](https://www.amplitude.com): Dashboards and data exploration - accesses data stored in Snowflake ## Types of Telemetry @@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ Diagnostic events include debug information (stack traces) from crash reports. R You can see what data is sent when a panic occurs by inspecting the `Panic` struct in [crates/telemetry_events/src/telemetry_events.rs](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/telemetry_events/src/telemetry_events.rs) in the Zed repo. You can find additional information in the [Debugging Crashes](./development/debugging-crashes.md) documentation. -### Usage Data (Metrics) {#metrics} +### Client-Side Usage Data {#client-metrics} To improve Zed and understand how it is being used in the wild, Zed optionally collects usage data like the following: @@ -50,6 +51,12 @@ You can audit the metrics data that Zed has reported by running the command {#ac You can see the full list of the event types and exactly the data sent for each by inspecting the `Event` enum and the associated structs in [crates/telemetry_events/src/telemetry_events.rs](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/telemetry_events/src/telemetry_events.rs) in the Zed repository. +### Server-Side Usage Data {#metrics} + +When using Zed's hosted services, we may collect, generate, and Process data to allow us to support users and improve our hosted offering. Examples include metadata around rate limiting and billing metrics/token usage. Zed does not persistently store user content or use user content to evaluate and/or improve our AI features, unless it is explicitly shared with Zed, and we have a zero-data retention agreement with Anthropic. + +You can see more about our stance on data collection (and that any prompt data shared with Zed is explicitly opt-in) at [AI Improvement](./ai/ai-improvement.md). + ## Concerns and Questions If you have concerns about telemetry, please feel free to [open an issue](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/new/choose).