+1. Of course we must ensure proper treatment of this data (anonymization, retention, removal, copyrights)
On 11/23/13 11:01 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? > >Wido