| title | Enable or disable usage data collection, and crash reporting for Azure Data Studio | Microsoft Docs |
|---|---|
| description | This article explains how to control if usage and crash reporting data is collected and sent to Microsoft. |
| ms.custom | tools|sos |
| ms.date | 09/24/2018 |
| ms.prod | sql |
| ms.reviewer | alayu; sstein |
| ms.prod_service | sql-tools |
| ms.topic | conceptual |
| author | stevestein |
| ms.author | sstein |
| manager | craigg |
Enable or disable usage data collection for [!INCLUDEname-sos]
[!INCLUDEname-sos] collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. To learn more, read the privacy statement.
If you don’t wish to send usage data to Microsoft, you can set the telemetry.enableTelemetry setting to false.
To silence all telemetry events from [!INCLUDEname-sos], from File > Preferences > Settings, add the following option:
"telemetry.enableTelemetry": falseImportant Notice: This option requires a restart of [!INCLUDEname-sos] to take effect.
To disable crash reporting, from File > Preferences > Settings, add the following option:
"telemetry.enableCrashReporter": falseImportant Notice: This option requires a restart of [!INCLUDEname-sos] to take effect.