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Telemetry
We collect anonymous data from Diffblue Cover CLI in order to help improve our services to our users. It is possible to turn this data collection off, as described below.
Further information on our data collection and policies is in the Diffblue Privacy Notice.
To turn off data collection in the Diffblue Cover plugin for IntelliJ:
You can disable data collection by deselecting the checkbox: Allow collection of anonymized usage statistics
. This can be found in the plugin preferences menu at Tools > Diffblue Cover > About
.
To repackage the Diffblue Cover plugin for IntelliJ with telemetry disabled
Larger organizations may find it necessary to create an in-house distribution of Diffblue IntelliJ plugin
with telemetry disabled.
The plugin is distributed as a plain zip file. Within the contents of the zip file is a file called telemetry.properties
which controls telemetry settings:
➜ unzip -l diffblue-cover-ij-2021.04.02-teams-2021.1.zip
Archive: diffblue-cover-ij-2021.04.02-teams-2021.1.zip
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
...
50391887 04-28-2021 10:25 diffblue-cover-ij/META-INF/cover-service-analyzer-2021.04.02.jar
269 04-28-2021 10:25 diffblue-cover-ij/META-INF/telemetry.properties
4830630 04-28-2021 10:25 diffblue-cover-ij/META-INF/cover-isolation-layer-2021.04.02.jar
The telemetry file is located within the zip archive at path diffblue-cover-ij/META-INF/telemetry.properties
. Unzip the distribution, edit this file and specify the telemetry backend none
. Leave the other properties intact:
name=eval
backend=none
Rezip the contents of the zip file with this edited telemetry.properties
and distribute. Install your plugin distribution as usual via Install Plugin from Disk...