Chapter 5. Customer privacy

Various Microsoft products have a feature that reports usage statistics, analytics, and various other metrics to Microsoft over the network. Microsoft calls this Telemetry. Red Hat is disabling telemetry because we do not recommend sending customer data to anyone without explicit permission.

As part of installing .NET on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, we automatically set an environment variable that tells the CLI to disable its telemetry reporting. Any customer that runs .NET Core 3.1 will not report telemetry information to Microsoft. This helps keep customer information confidential.

Customers can enable telemetry by setting the environment variable DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT to 0. See .NET Core Tools Telemetry collection for more information.