Anonymous agent stats
Over the coming weekend we will be pushing out our statistics collection mechanism. This has been in the sd-agent source for some time but we have not been storing the data posted back. We will start storing this anonymised data as of this weekend (21st/22nd Nov).
The data that is reported back is agent version, machine type, processor type, OS, OS version and Python version. It is sent once each time you restart the agent.
We will be using this data to help our development (mainly choosing the right platforms to test on) but also to product generalised reports so we can publish some more interesting blog posts.
sd-agent v1.3.0 released in October introduced a switch to allow you to disable this. Enabled by default, just add the following line to your config to disable:
report_anon_stats: no
Let us know if you have any questions.
I’ve just updated the agent, and on restart get the following message: “There are some items missing from your config file, but nothing fatal”. My conf file contains 3 entries:
sd_url
agent_key
apache_status_url
Am I missing something else? Just curious…
There are a number of new config items which aren’t required, but the agent will let you know they’re missing. The default set is:
[Main]
sd_url: http://boxedice.serverdensity.com
agent_key: key
apache_status_url: http://www.example.com/server-status/?auto
mysql_server:
mysql_user:
mysql_pass:
nginx_status_url: http://www.example.com/nginx_status
report_anon_stats: yes