[Opt-in only] open telemetry should include some PII data in GitHub Copilot in VS Code

[1w2w3y]

It will be useful to collect some user information in some use cases. This may be helpful to be a opt-in only feature. With such PII data, it would be possible to have analytics on each user' usage.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/monitoring-usage#available-metrics-and-events

[zhichli]

Can you list a couple of use cases for this ?

[vs-code-engineering]

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[1w2w3y]

When token usage from AI coding agents can be attributed to individual employees, it enables a wide range of possibilities—both beneficial and potentially problematic. https://www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/article/2026-02-05-meta-links-ai-adoption-usage-to-reviews-rewards