https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/config... https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.8/administration/con...
So... by default, i assume whatever i'm using is spying on me, until proven otherwise - and yes, that's kinda depressing...
(and one more reason to use something like Pi-Hole to have at least some attempt to throw a wrench into that practice)
I could imagine a sysadmin wanting to prevent users from enabling telemetry from the web interface by setting allowChangingOptInStatus to false and telemetry.optIn to false. That's not bad, especially since allowChangingOptInStatus is true by default.
(IIUC)
You can actually see exactly what is tracked here https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/main/pkg/infra/usage... and beyond basic statistics we collect an anonymous ID which is a random UUID which we have no way to correlate back to the running instance (and which can easily be reset).
Would I prefer for it to be opt-in? Yes. Do I understand why they would default to collection considering close to nobody would go out of their way to enable it? Yes.