Product telemetry

Learn why, what and how F5 NGINX Ingress Controller collects telemetry.

Overview

NGINX Ingress Controller collects product telemetry data to allow its developers to understand how it’s deployed and configured by users. This data is used to triage development work, prioritizing features and functionality that will benefit the most people.

Product telemetry is enabled by default, collected once every 24 hours. It’s then sent to a service managed by F5 over HTTPS.

Note:
If you would prefer not to send any telemetry data, you can opt-out when installing NGINX Ingress Controller.

Data collected

These are the data points collected and reported by NGINX Ingress Controller:

  • Project Name The name of the software, which will be labelled NIC.
  • Project Version NGINX Ingress Controller version.
  • Project Architecture The architecture of the kubernetes environment. (e.g. amd64, arm64, etc…)
  • Cluster ID A unique identifier of the kubernetes cluster that NGINX Ingress Controller is deployed to.
  • Cluster Version The version of the Kubernetes cluster.
  • Cluster Platform The platform that the kubernetes cluster is operating on. (e.g. eks, aks, etc…)
  • Cluster Node Count The number of nodes in the cluster that NGINX Ingress Controller is deployed to.
  • Installation ID Used to identify a unique installation of NGINX Ingress Controller.
  • VirtualServers The number of VirtualServer resources managed by NGINX Ingress Controller.
  • VirtualServerRoutes The number of VirtualServerRoute resources managed by NGINX Ingress Controller.
  • TransportServers The number of TransportServer resources managed by NGINX Ingress Controller.
  • Replicas Number of Deployment replicas, or Daemonset instances.
  • Secrets Number of Secret resources managed by NGINX Ingress Controller.
  • ClusterIPServices Number of ClusterIP Services managed by NGINX Ingress Controller.
  • NodePortServices Number of NodePort Services managed by NGINX Ingress Controller.
  • LoadBalancerServices Number of LoadBalancer Services managed by NGINX Ingress Controller.
  • ExternalNameServices Number of ExternalName Services managed by NGINX Ingress Controller.
  • RegularIngressCount The number of Regular Ingress resources managed by NGINX Ingress Controller.
  • MasterIngressCount The number of Master Ingress resources managed by NGINX Ingress Controller.
  • MinionIngressCount The number of Minion Ingress resources managed by NGINX Ingress Controller.
  • IngressClasses Number of Ingress Classes in the cluster.
  • IngressAnnotations List of Ingress annotations managed by NGINX Ingress Controller
  • AccessControlPolicies Number of AccessControl policies.
  • RateLimitPolicies Number of RateLimit policies.
  • APIKeyPolicies Number of API Key Auth policies.
  • JWTAuthPolicies Number of JWTAuth policies.
  • BasicAuthPolicies Number of BasicAuth policies.
  • IngressMTLSPolicies Number of IngressMTLS policies.
  • EgressMTLSPolicies Number of EgressMTLS policies.
  • OIDCPolicies Number of OIDC policies.
  • WAFPolicies Number of WAF policies.
  • GlobalConfiguration Represents the use of a GlobalConfiguration resource.
  • AppProtectVersion The AppProtect version
  • IsPlus Represents whether NGINX is Plus or OSS
  • InstallationFlags List of command line arguments configured for NGINX Ingress Controller

Opt out

Product telemetry can be disabled when installing NGINX Ingress Controller.

Helm

When installing or upgrading NGINX Ingress Controller with Helm, set the controller.telemetryReporting.enable option to false.

This can be set directly in the values.yaml file, or using the --set option

helm upgrade --install ... --set controller.telemetryReporting.enable=false

Manifests

When installing NGINX Ingress Controller with Manifests, set the -enable-telemetry-reporting flag to false