usage-data-collection.md

title	Enable or disable usage data collection and crash reporting
description	This article explains how to control if usage and crash reporting data is collected and sent to Microsoft.
ms.prod	azure-data-studio
ms.technology	azure-data-studio
ms.topic	conceptual
author	markingmyname
ms.author	maghan
ms.reviewer	alayu, maghan, sstein
ms.custom	seodec18; seo-lt-2019
ms.date	09/24/2018

Enable or disable usage data collection for Azure Data Studio

Azure Data Studio 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 Azure Data Studio, from File > Preferences > Settings, add the following option:

    "telemetry.enableTelemetry": false

Important Notice: This option requires a restart of Azure Data Studio to take effect.

To disable crash reporting, from File > Preferences > Settings, add the following option:

    "telemetry.enableCrashReporter": false

Important Notice: This option requires a restart of Azure Data Studio to take effect.