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# Usage statistics
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GitLab Inc. will periodically collect information about your instance in order
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to perform various actions.
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All statistics are opt-in and you can always disable them from the admin panel.
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## Version check
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GitLab can inform you when an update is available and the importance of it.
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No information other than the GitLab version and the instance's domain name
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are collected.
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In the **Overview** tab you can see if your GitLab version is up to date. There
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are three cases: 1) you are up to date (green), 2) there is an update available
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(yellow) and 3) your version is vulnerable and a security fix is released (red).
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In any case, you will see a message informing you of the state and the
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importance of the update.
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If enabled, the version status will also be shown in the help page (`/help`)
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for all signed in users.
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## Usage data
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> [Introduced][ee-557] in GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.10. More statistics
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[were added][ee-735] in GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.12.
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GitLab Inc. can collect non-sensitive information about how Enterprise Edition
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customers use their GitLab instance upon the activation of a ping feature
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located in the admin panel (`/admin/application_settings`).
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You can see the **exact** JSON payload that your instance sends to GitLab Inc.
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in the "Usage statistics" section of the admin panel.
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Nothing qualitative is collected. Only quantitative. Meaning, no project name,
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author name, nature of comments, name of labels, etc.
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This is done mainly for the following reasons:
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- to have a better understanding on how our users use our product
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- to provide more tools for the customer success team to help customers onboard
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better.
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The total number of the following is sent back to GitLab Inc.:
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- Comments
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- Groups
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- Users
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- Projects
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- Issues
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- Labels
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- CI builds
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- Snippets
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- Milestones
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- Todos
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- Pushes
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- Merge requests
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- Environments
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- Triggers
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- Deploy keys
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- Pages
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- Project Services
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- Projects using the Prometheus service
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- Issue Boards
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- CI Runners
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- Deployments
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- Geo Nodes
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- LDAP Groups
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- LDAP Keys
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- LDAP Users
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- LFS objects
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- Protected branches
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- Releases
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- Remote mirrors
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- Web hooks
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Also, we track if you've installed Mattermost with GitLab.
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For example: `"mattermost_enabled":true"`.
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## Privacy policy
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GitLab Inc. does **not** collect any sensitive information, like project names
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or the content of the comments. GitLab Inc. does not disclose or otherwise make
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available any of the data collected on a customer specific basis.
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Read more in about the [Privacy policy](https://about.gitlab.com/privacy).
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[ee-557]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/557
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[ee-735]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/735
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