Telemetry

To help prioritize features and work on improving Skaffold, we collect anonymized Skaffold usage data. Usage data does not include any argument values or personal information.

You are opted-in by default and you can opt-out at any time with the skaffold config command. In order to disable sending usage data, run the following command after you have installed Skaffold:

skaffold config set --global collect-metrics false

The breakdown of data we collect is as follows:

Example

skaffold dev -v trace --port-forward --cache-artifacts=false --filename=./skaffold.yaml

Running the above in the microservices example after a couple of builds/deploys results in the following metrics being collected:

[{
    "ExitCode": 0,
    "BuildArtifacts": 3,
    "Command": "dev",
    "Version": "v1.19.0",
    "OS": "darwin",
    "Arch": "amd64",
    "PlatformType": "local",
    "Deployers": ["kubectl"],
    "EnumFlags": {
        "cache-artifacts": "false",
        "port-forward": "true"
    },
    "Builders": {
        "docker": 3
    },
    "SyncType": {},
    "DevIterations": [{
        "Intent": "build",
        "ErrorCode": 0
    }, {
        "Intent": "build",
        "ErrorCode": 104
    }, {
        "Intent": "build",
        "ErrorCode": 0
    }, {
        "Intent": "deploy",
        "ErrorCode": 300
    }, {
        "Intent": "deploy",
        "ErrorCode": 0
    }],
    "StartTime": "2021-01-25T16:24:38.615012-05:00",
    "Duration": 176315222939,
    "ErrorCode": 0
}]

This data is handled in accordance with our privacy policy https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Last modified July 8, 2024: docs: update changelog for v2.13.0 (#9471) (7f817f3)