Usage Information

At Medusa, we strive to provide the best experience for developers using our platform. For that reason, Medusa collects anonymous and non-sensitive data that provides a global understanding of how users are using Medusa.

Purpose#

As an open source solution, we work closely and constantly interact with our community to ensure that we provide the best experience for everyone using Medusa.

We are capable of getting a general understanding of how developers use Medusa and what general issues they run into through different means such as our Discord server, GitHub issues and discussions, and occasional one-on-one sessions.

However, although these methods can be insightful, they’re not enough to get a full and global understanding of how developers are using Medusa, especially in production.

Collecting this data allows us to understand certain details such as:

• What operating system do most Medusa developers use?
• What version of Medusa is widely used?
• What parts of the Medusa Admin are generally undiscovered by our users?
• How much data do users manage through our Medusa Admin? Is it being used for large number of products, orders, and other types of data?
• What Node version is globally used? Should we focus our efforts on providing support for versions that we don’t currently support?

Medusa Application Analytics#

This section covers which data in the Medusa application are collected and how to opt out of it.

Collected Data in the Medusa Application#

The following data is being collected on your Medusa application:

• Unique project ID generated with UUID.
• Unique machine ID generated with UUID.
• Operating system information including Node version or operating system platform used.
• The version of the Medusa application and Medusa CLI are used.

How to Opt Out#

If you prefer to disable data collection, you can do it either by setting the following environment variable to true:

Terminal
❯MEDUSA_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true

Or, you can run the following command in the root of your Medusa application project to disable it:

Terminal
❯npx medusa telemetry --disable

Admin Analytics#

This section covers which data in the admin are collected and how to opt out of it.

Collected Data in Admin#

The following data is being collected on your admin:

• The name of the store.
• The email of the user.
• The total number of products, orders, discounts, and users.
• The number of regions and their names.
• The currencies used in the store.
• Errors that occur while using the admin.

How to Enable Anonymization#

To enable anonymization of your data from the Medusa Admin:

1. Go to Settings → Personal Information.
2. In the Usage insights section, click on the “Edit preferences” button.
3. Enable the "Anonymize my usage data” toggle.
4. Click on the “Submit and close” button.

How to Opt-Out#

To opt out of analytics collection in the Medusa Admin, set the following environment variable:

Terminal
❯MEDUSA_FF_ANALYTICS=false