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=== Telemetry settings in {kib}
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<titleabbrev>Telemetry settings</titleabbrev>
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By default, Usage Collection (also known as Telemetry) is enabled. This
helps us learn about the {kib} features that our users are most interested in, so we
can focus our efforts on making them even better.
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You can control whether this data is sent from the {kib} servers, or if it should be sent
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from the user's browser, in case a firewall is blocking the connections from the server. Additionally, you can decide to completely disable this feature either in the config file or in {kib} via *Management > Kibana > Advanced Settings > Usage Data*.
See our https://www.elastic.co/legal/privacy-statement[Privacy Statement] to learn more.
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==== General telemetry settings
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| `telemetry.enabled`
| Set to `true` to send cluster statistics to Elastic. Reporting your
cluster statistics helps us improve your user experience. Your data is never
shared with anyone. Set to `false` to disable statistics reporting from any
browser connected to the {kib} instance. Defaults to `true`.
| `telemetry.sendUsageFrom`
| Set to `'server'` to report the cluster statistics from the {kib} server.
If the server fails to connect to our endpoint at https://telemetry.elastic.co/, it assumes
it is behind a firewall and falls back to `'browser'` to send it from users' browsers
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when they are navigating through {kib}. Defaults to `'server'`.
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| `telemetry.optIn`
| Set to `true` to automatically opt into reporting cluster statistics. You can also opt out through
*Advanced Settings* in {kib}. Defaults to `true`.
| `telemetry.allowChangingOptInStatus`
| Set to `true` to allow overwriting the `telemetry.optIn` setting via the {kib} UI. Defaults to `true`. +
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When `false`, `telemetry.optIn` must be `true`. To disable telemetry and not allow users to change that parameter, use `telemetry.enabled`.
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