Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry [LWN.net]

Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

Posted Jul 7, 2023 2:31 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566)
Parent article: Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

> And in contrast to proprietary software operating systems, you can redirect the data collection to your own private metrics server instead of Fedora's to see precisely what data is being collected from you, because the server components are open source too.

That sounds good, but unfortunately they have to be a bit more specific: “client-server tracking software but it's self-hostable and open source” is a spectrum with things like Matomo on one end and Mozilla Weave on the other.

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Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

Posted Jul 7, 2023 4:58 UTC (Fri) by wjt (subscriber, #56250) [Link] (2 responses)

It's the metrics stack from Endless OS. The server side is a Python web server that enqueues received events into Redis, and a Python service that pulls events from Redis, parses them, and inserts them into a PostgreSQL database. We publish Docker images of both, which are what we use in production. The most unusual dependency (for a server) is on GLib and GObject-Introspection, which are needed because the wire protocol uses GVariant.

Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

Posted Jul 7, 2023 5:34 UTC (Fri) by kay (guest, #1362) [Link]

I always wonder why a big and complicated stack is needed to collect a ping.... and yes I'm old school preferring an apache and a script instead ;-)

Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

Posted Jul 7, 2023 22:00 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I'm sure people out there have strong opinions about GLib in server software (it's already present on all of mine, because Avahi). But it's not *that* weird - I've seen headless server software that uses Qt for networking.