On Nov 23, 2013, at 5:01 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote:
> Hi, > > I discussed this during CCCEU13 with David, Chip and Hugo and I promised I > put it on the ml. > > My idea is to come up with a reporting tool which users can run daily which > feeds us back information about how they are using CloudStack: > > * Hypervisors > * Zone sizes > * Cluster sizes > * Primary Storage sizes and types > * Same for Secondary Storage > * Number of management servers > * Version > > This would ofcourse be anonimized where we would send one file with JSON data > back to our servers where we can proccess it to do statistics. > > The tool will obviously be open source and participating in this will be > opt-in only. > > We currently don't know what's running out there, so that would be great to > know. > > Some questions remain: > * Who is going to maintain the data? > * Who has access to the data? > * How long do we keep it? > * Do we do logging of IPs sending the data to us? > > I certainly do not want to spy on our users, so that's why it's opt-in and > the tool should be part of the main repo, but I think that for us as a > project it's very useful to know what our users are doing with CloudStack. > > Comments? > +1 > Wido