Adding usage reporting for Hybrid Manager-monitored databases v1.3.2

You can complement your monitoring efforts by providing EDB with valuable insights into product usage, all from a unified agent deployment. When usage reporting is enabled, the agent collects basic usage data to enable EDB to better understand our customers. It sends data to EDB only if you enable it.

In internet-connected environments

1. In the agent configuration example, the beacon_agent.yaml file already has general.metrics.usage.output.file.enabled set to true. This setting allows the agent to save a local copy of the usage data in the file beacon_usage.json.

2. Review this file to ensure that the information is accurate and doesn't contain any data you don't want to share with EDB.

3. Enable reporting to EDB by setting general.metrics.usage.output.http.enabled to true.

In air-gapped environments

1. In the agent configuration example, the beacon_agent.yaml file already has general.metrics.usage.output.file.enabled set to true. This setting allows the agent to save a local copy of the usage data in the file beacon_usage.json.

2. Review this file to verify that the information is accurate and doesn't contain any data you don't want to share with EDB.

3. Copy the beacon_usage.json report file to a machine that has internet access.