A growing list of telemetry opt-out environment variables for libraries, software, and tools

Telemetry is a way for developers to collect usage data from their users. While telemetry can be useful for improving the software, it can also be a privacy concern for some users. This repository aims to provide a list of environment variables that can be used to opt-out of telemetry for popular tools and libraries.

But why?

Because privacy matters.

Telemetry should be opt-in by default, but that’s not always the case. This list is a work in progress, and contributions are welcome.

Note

If you know of any other tools or libraries that should be added to this list, please open a pull request.

Angular CLI

ng analytics disable && \
ng analytics off

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Apollo Router

export APOLLO_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true

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Astro

export ASTRO_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1

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AWS SAM CLI

export SAM_CLI_TELEMETRY=0

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Gatsby

export GATSBY_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1

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Homebrew

export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1

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Netlify

netlify --telemetry-disable

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Next.js

export NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1

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Nuxt.js

export NUXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1

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Prisma

export CHECKPOINT_DISABLE=1

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Turborepo

export TURBO_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1

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Vercel CLI

Copy the following into $XDG_DATA_HOME/com.vercel.cli/config.json:

{
  "collectMetrics": false
}

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License

MIT © Kunall Banerjee