<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Ceph has done something like this with good results - <a href="https://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/mgr/telemetry/" class="">https://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/mgr/telemetry/</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think the things that have helped this to be successful are</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- easy way to see what you would send</div><div class="">- option (not the default) to provide more details such as company and contact</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think many OpenStack projects could benefit from this sort of approach for</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- capacity growth</div><div class="">- rate of upgrade</div><div class="">- support some of the user survey activities by automatically collecting data rather than asking for responses in a manual survey</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Would it be possible to consider an Oslo module so the infrastructure could be common and then we make it anonymous opt-in ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Aug 2020, at 18:17, Julia Kreger <<a href="mailto:juliaashleykreger@gmail.com" class="">juliaashleykreger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Greetings awesome Artificial Intelligences and fellow humanoid carbon units!<br class=""><br class="">This week I need to submit the question for the 2021 user survey. We<br class="">discussed this some during our weekly IRC meeting today.[0]<br class=""><br class="">Presently, the question is:<br class=""><br class="">"Ironic: What would you find most useful if it was part of ironic?"<br class=""><br class="">I'd like to propose we collect more data in order to enable us to make<br class="">informed decisions for features and maintenance work moving forward.<br class="">While this is long term thinking, I'm wondering if operators would be<br class="">interested in collecting and submitting some basic data or using a<br class="">tool, to submit anonymous usage data so we can gain insight into<br class="">hardware types in use, numbers of machines, which interfaces are used,<br class="">etc.<br class=""><br class="">So I'm thinking something along the lines of:<br class=""><br class="">"Ironic: Would you be willing to submit anonymous usage statistics<br class="">(Number of nodes, conductors, which drivers are in use, etc) if such a<br class="">tool existed? Yes/No/Not Applicable"<br class=""><br class="">Thoughts? Feelings? Concerns? Other ideas?<br class=""><br class="">-Julia<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">[0]: <a href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/ironic/2020/ironic.2020-08-10-15.00.log.html" class="">http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/ironic/2020/ironic.2020-08-10-15.00.log.html</a><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>