Document event tracking + opt-out

[atharvai]

Currently DBT sends tracking events to fishtown-analytics' snowplow instance. How can we disable this tracking?

sample log:
Sending event: {'category': 'dbt', 'action': 'run_model', 'context': [<snowplow_tracker.self_describing_json.SelfDescribingJson object at 0x00000000078A01D0>]....}

[drewbanin]

Hey @atharvai -- great question! This used to be documented, but I can't seem to find it over on Read The Docs.

You can disable anonymous event tracking by adding these lines to your ~/.dbt/profiles.yml file.

config:
    send_anonymous_usage_stats: False

You can find more info about this here

I'll make sure to update the docs with this information. Thanks!

[drewbanin]

@atharvai FYI, we're moving our docs over to readme.io. Check out the updated usage statistics info here

[userbradley]

@drewbanin the page comes back as blank on both chrome and safari

Also can we please make this more well known as we don't exactly want to be sending back usage data when we dont even know what it's sending. Doesn't feel right, epsecially on internal instances

@TColl

[jtcohen6]

@userbradley Sorry about that, the links above are from several years ago. You can see updated docs here: https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/global-configs#send-anonymous-usage-stats

You can also see all the tracking code in this file: https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/blob/main/core/dbt/tracking.py

[userbradley]

Thanks @joevandyk

[polmonso]

The documentation page doesn't mention how to turn the anonymous data usage off. Is still adding the snippet

config:
    send_anonymous_usage_stats: False
some_dbt_project:
    ...

to the .dbt/profiles.yml the way to do it?

[dbeatty10]

@polmonso Here's the docs:
https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/global-configs/usage-stats

👍 Yep, adding the following within your profiles.yml is the way to go:

config:
  send_anonymous_usage_stats: False

Then after you run your next dbt command, you can check your logs at logs/dbt.log. You should be able to find something like this to show that it worked:

'send_anonymous_usage_stats': False