Telemetry

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By default, mongosync collects anonymous, aggregated usage data to improve MongoDB products. When you run mongosync you can disable collection of this telemetry data.

Data Collection

The data mongosync reports includes:

State information when mongosync starts, starts committing, or passes through intermediate states
Information about the source and destination clusters and the hardware that hosts the mongosync instance
Initialization arguments
The number of source and destination writes
The estimated number of bytes mongosync copies
The estimated number of events mongosync applies
The request body sent to start calls

mongosync does not track:

IP addresses
Hostnames
Usernames
Login credentials
Connection strings
Data stored in MongoDB deployments
Personally identifiable information (PII)

For more information, see MongoDB's Privacy Policy.

Disable Telemetry Collection

To disable telemetry collection when you start mongosync, set one of the following:

disableTelemetry in the configuration file
--disableTelemetry on the command line

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