On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 1, 2014, at 8:08 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > As a project we currently don't have a lot of insight information on > > about how CloudStack is being used. Surveys tell us a lot, but not > > everybody fills in the survey, so we still miss a lot of information. > > > > That's why I've written the Usage Reporting functionality for the > > management server which automatically sends back anonymous information > > about a CloudStack deployment. > > > > It's currently in the 'reporter' branch. [0] > > > > By default, every 7 days it generates a JSON document with: > > - Hosts (Number, version, type, hypervisor) > > - Clusters (Hypervisor en Management type) > > - Primary storage (Type and provider) > > - Zones (Network type and providers) > > - Instances (Number and types) > > > > This report is not complete yet, I'd like to add more information, but > > that will be Management Server information. > > > > The code on how this report is generated is obviously 100% Open Source, > > so end-users can always exactly see how the information was compiled. > > > > I want to discuss this new feature for CloudStack and the possible > > implications it might have. > > > > I'm opting for a opt-out. So every new or upgraded install to 4.6.0 > > (master) will have this enabled. Yes, we have to be very explicit in the > > Release Notes that this has been added. > > > > Why? It's the small price we as a project ask for using CloudStack. We > > want a little bit of information on how CloudStack is being used so that > > we can use this to make CloudStack even better. > > > > Turning it off is also just one global setting and it will never turn on > > again. > > > > On the server-side there is a Python flask application [1] (found in the > > reporter directory) which stores all the incoming information in a > > ElasticSearch database. From there analytics can be gathered on > > CloudStack deployments. > > > > It currently points to http://cs-report.widodh.nl/report which will NOT > > be the endpoint when this is merged into master. > > > > For 'production' I want to have > > https://report.cloudstack.apache.org/report where all reports are > submitted. > > > > For every setup a unique ID is determined by hashing the first row in > > the 'version' table. This is the version + timestamp and that is hashed > > using SHA256. Using this unique ID we can track changes in deployments > > and see how they grow or shrink. > > > > Technically this wasn't that hard to implement, but the politics > > surrounding it might be the hardest part. > > > > What do other have to say about this? Should there be a VOTE for this > > feature to come into CloudStack? Opt-in, opt-out? > > > > We should ask users@ as well. > > I am +1 on this, As a cloudstack user I don't have any problem with this, +1. -- Erik
