diff --git a/libs/vre/shared/app-analytics/src/lib/grafana-faro.service.ts b/libs/vre/shared/app-analytics/src/lib/grafana-faro.service.ts
index 727abd79fd..a12f6afc2f 100644
--- a/libs/vre/shared/app-analytics/src/lib/grafana-faro.service.ts
+++ b/libs/vre/shared/app-analytics/src/lib/grafana-faro.service.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ export class GrafanaFaroService {
   constructor(private readonly _appConfig: AppConfigService) {}
 
   setup() {
+    if (this._appConfig.dspInstrumentationConfig.environment === 'local-dev') {
+      return;
+    }
+
     this.faro = initializeFaro({
       url: 'https://faro-collector-prod-eu-west-2.grafana.net/collect/66166d1b81448a1cca47cde470d9ec98',
       app: {
diff --git a/libs/vre/shared/app-config/src/lib/app-config/app-config.ts b/libs/vre/shared/app-config/src/lib/app-config/app-config.ts
index 4dd056b5cc..39d77e973c 100644
--- a/libs/vre/shared/app-config/src/lib/app-config/app-config.ts
+++ b/libs/vre/shared/app-config/src/lib/app-config/app-config.ts
@@ -14,10 +14,12 @@ export const Rollbar = z.discriminatedUnion('enabled', [
 export type Rollbar = z.infer<typeof Rollbar>;
 
 export const Instrumentation = z.object({
-  environment: z.string().nonempty("required 'environment' value missing in config"),
+  environment: z.enum(['local-dev', 'dev-server', 'test-server', 'ls-test-server', 'staging-server', 'prod']),
   rollbar: Rollbar,
 });
 
+export type InstrumentationType = z.infer<typeof Instrumentation>;
+
 /**
  * Our codebase requires number | null. The config will contain either a number
  * or an empty string. We need to transform the empty string case into a null.
diff --git a/libs/vre/shared/app-config/src/lib/app-config/dsp-instrumentation-config.ts b/libs/vre/shared/app-config/src/lib/app-config/dsp-instrumentation-config.ts
index 2a85d748a0..ab7c82826d 100644
--- a/libs/vre/shared/app-config/src/lib/app-config/dsp-instrumentation-config.ts
+++ b/libs/vre/shared/app-config/src/lib/app-config/dsp-instrumentation-config.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
  *  SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
 
+import { InstrumentationType } from './app-config';
+
 export class DspRollbarConfig {
   constructor(
     public enabled: boolean,
@@ -12,7 +14,7 @@ export class DspRollbarConfig {
 
 export class DspInstrumentationConfig {
   constructor(
-    public environment: string,
+    public environment: InstrumentationType['environment'],
     public rollbar: DspRollbarConfig
   ) {}
 }