Telemetry for OpenSource doesn't feel good

[manni07]

Hi all,

I know for a company it is always of high interest to get usage data for an application. Nevertheless it doesn't feel godd to have a telemetry in an opensource project.
I know you assure anonymous data transfer etc.; nevertheless it should be somehow possible to directly deactivate telemetry by setting a parameter like I have it in other applications.
This could e.g. be done in the same way as you ask about the LLM when fulfilling 'crew create'.

Would feel much better....

[krzemian]

"Users can disable telemetry by setting the environment variable OTEL_SDK_DISABLED to true."

Source: https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI?tab=readme-ov-file#telemetry

[manni07]

Yes, but as far as I understood it does not completely disable telemetry. Some data is still sent. Maybe a fork with no telemetry could be an idea.

[etxaleku]

I have run across these two environment variables to disable telemetry -

# Disable CrewAI telemetry only
os.environ['CREWAI_DISABLE_TELEMETRY'] = 'true'

# Disable all OpenTelemetry (including CrewAI)
os.environ['OTEL_SDK_DISABLED'] = 'true'

But there is more "oversight monitoring and reporting" built in apparently.

I agree that this is the first open source project I've ever encountered in decades that has "reporting to the mothership" built in.
And there isn't even much, if any, disclosure that it's going on.

I am trying to build local systems and thought that with a local mysql database and a local ollama running local models using a local crewai agent framework I was accomplishing this - but apparently that is not the case.