Kong Mesh data collection

Kong Mesh can collect information about your deployment to continuously improve the product and gather anonymous feedback. The collected data is sent to Kong servers securely for storage and aggregation.

You can enable data collection when installing the control plane in Kubernetes, of before running kuma-cp in Universal mode.

Enabling data collection

Set the following environment variable:
```
KUMA_REPORTS_ENABLED=true
```
Specify the environment variable when you install the control plane. See the configuration docs for details.

Or you can set the reports.enabled field to true in the config YAML file.

What data is collected

Data field	Definition
version	The installed version of Kong Mesh you’re running
product	Static value “Kong Mesh”
unique_id	Control plane hostname + randon UUID, generated each time control plane instance is restarted
backend	Where your config is stored. One of in memory, etcd, Postgres
mode	One of standalone or multizone
hostname	The hostname of each Kong Mesh control plane you deploy
signal	One of `start` or `ping`. `start` sent when control plane starts, then `ping` once per hour
cluster_id	Unique identifier for entire Kong Mesh cluster. Value is the same for all control planes in the cluster
dps_total	The total number of data plane proxies across all meshes
meshes_total	The total number of meshes deployed
zones_total	The total number of zones deployed
internal_services	Tne total number of services running inside your meshes
external_services	The total number of external services configured for your meshes
services_ total	The total number of services in your mesh network