From d894ac33d5f7b65ae82e3ce26c691d8ea58eda1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Filip Bozicevic Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 13:00:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] GITBOOK-572: Add extra analytics info --- data-and-security/analytics-and-tracking.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/data-and-security/analytics-and-tracking.md b/data-and-security/analytics-and-tracking.md index adf98cf..bf0378b 100644 --- a/data-and-security/analytics-and-tracking.md +++ b/data-and-security/analytics-and-tracking.md @@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ It will be possible to opt-out of analytics in the [future](https://github.com/o While the product is still in pre-release, we use analytics services to help us understand performance of the app as a whole, adoption of certain features, and how the latter impacts retention. +Analytics consists of two parts: low-level analytics at the network level and app usage analytics at the client level. Both types are anonymous and do not analyze the content you are working with, as it is encrypted. + +{% hint style="info" %} +If you switch to self-hosted or local-only network mode, Anytype Network does not collect low-level analytics. However, app usage analytics are still reported. +{% endhint %} + **Amplitude** is the main service we use for tracking _events_ inside the app. It allows us to track metrics such as: * How many users joined in the past month & how many dropped @@ -18,3 +24,12 @@ We use these to understand our main product metrics and whether overall, we’re In practice, this means that we know for instance that custom Types are very popular, but we cannot see what these custom types are (nor which Objects you’ve created with those types). Besides Amplitude, our engineering teams use Sentry to track the prevalence of crashes. + +{% hint style="info" %} +The only way to disable analytics at the moment is to either block outgoing connections to analytics-related hosts, or to edit the relevant source code and rebuild the client for your own use. +{% endhint %} + + + + +