"The data is collected by Microsoft and shared with the community." Where is it?

[chadwackerman]

There was quite the hubbub when telemetry appeared... #6145

I'm now seeing things in Microsoft press releases like "engagement and usage is up 62%" as well as claims by the various tools groups that they're razor focused on "inner loop" developer time. Presumably by endlessly futzing with project file formats, applying random names and version numbers to key platform technologies, and using wonky, single-threaded code generation/bundling/minification tools that barely scale to 100 line Scott Hanselman rigged tradeshow demos.

Still... about the only part of .NET Core that isn't utterly wasting my time these days is compilation time.

I'd love to have the same access to this data (as promised) as the various marketing and tech groups at Microsoft do. Is it available somewhere?

[chadwackerman]

piotrpMSFT added this to the Discussion milestone 13 days ago

On what planet is "discussion" a milestone?

[martinwoodward]

Hmm - the original plan was to send the CLI usage data to the .NET Foundation. Let me check up on where this got to.

Some of the data given in terms of contribution is taken from the data in GitHub which is already public, however we could do a better job of sharing more of the summary data as well. I'll go look into that also.

[martinwoodward]

ok - looks like the telemetry publishing side of things moved down the priority stack a bit while the actual bits got stabilized which I agree was the right call to make. @blackdwarf is now working on getting the raw telemetry data from the CLI published - thanks!

Information on the things collected is here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/core/tools/telemetry.

The plan is (roughly speaking) to get the data into a CSV files and then published up on the .NET Foundation website. We'll send out a blog post when it's up and also update the GitHub issues.

Do folks have any thoughts on how often the data-dump should be updated? Monthly enough?

[markrendle]

@martinwoodward How about starting with EVER and going from there? 😈

Ahem. Sorry.

In all seriousness, I've started working on something and I could really use this telemetry data right about now. Or soon, anyway. I know you guys have been busy with the //BUILD ZBB, but maybe someone's got enough breathing room to process and dump the data somewhere? Grab an intern or something.

[richlander]

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/07/21/what-weve-learned-from-net-core-sdk-telemetry/