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diff --git a/docs/netdata-security.md b/docs/netdata-security.md index 09631dc724..642881067e 100644 --- a/docs/netdata-security.md +++ b/docs/netdata-security.md @@ -149,7 +149,9 @@ Of course, there are many more methods you could use to protect Netdata: - install all your Netdata in **headless data collector** mode, forwarding all metrics in real-time to a master Netdata server, which will be protected with authentication using an nginx server running locally at the master Netdata server. This requires more resources (you will need a bigger master Netdata server), but does not require any firewall changes, since all the slave Netdata servers will not be listening for incoming connections. -## Registry or how to not send any information to a third party server +## Anonymous Statistics + +### Registry or how to not send any information to a third party server The default configuration uses a public registry under registry.my-netdata.io (more information about the registry here: [mynetdata-menu-item](../registry/) ). Please be aware that if you use that public registry, you submit the following information to a third party server: - The url where you open the web-ui in the browser (via http request referer) @@ -157,6 +159,16 @@ The default configuration uses a public registry under registry.my-netdata.io (m If sending this information to the central Netdata registry violates your security policies, you can configure Netdat to [run your own registry](../registry/#run-your-own-registry). +### Opt out of anonymous statistics + +Starting with v1.12 Netdata also collects [anonymous statistics](anonymous-statistics.md) on certain events for: + +1. **Quality assurance**, to help us understand if netdata behaves as expected and help us identify repeating issues for certain distributions or environments. + +2. **Usage statistics**, to help us focus on the parts of Netdata that are used the most, or help us identify the extent our development decisions influence the community. + +To opt-out from sending anonymous statistics, you can create a file called `.opt-out-from-anonymous-statistics` under the user configuration directory (usually `/etc/netdata`). + ## Netdata directories path|owner|permissions| netdata |comments| |