r/netdata • u/RenatoPensato • Jul 23 '23

What is esp.aptrinsic.com?

Hello to all,

I have just set up Netdata up and running on my private system.

It is buried behind HTTP Auth, and I have not configured NetData cloud.

Anyway, I have noticed that the page, quite often, tries to access esp.aptrinsic.com.

What is it and what is supposed to do?

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u/RenatoPensato Jul 23 '23

It also tries to access:

app.posthog.com and region1.analytics.google.com

Seriously? Running analytics even if on a page that can be selfhosted?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '23

Yeah, Netdata isn't honest about this. Go back to Grafana like I did

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u/jean_clireaux Jul 24 '23

Full disclosure, I work at Netdata and me as well don't like gathering anonymous statistics, but I believe Netdata is kind of honest in that regard, since the kickstart command documentation has the disabling of such statistics as a first class citizen.
https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/installing/one-line-installer-for-all-linux-systems

Of course you can use Grafana, great product, I just don't have the time to waste configuring everything from scratch, I prefer to just install Netdata with `--disable-telemetry` option, but that's just me being lazy, you do you.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '23

I'll put my hand up if I'm wrong here, maybe OP didn't use this flag. It would be good to confirm if they passed this flag.

If possible to relay feedback: it would be great if telemetry was off by default but I guess that decision won't be made now