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@astrojs/telemetry
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This package is used to collect anonymous telemetry data within the Astro CLI.
It can be disabled in Astro using either method documented below:
# Option 1: Run this to disable telemetry globally across your entire machine.
astro telemetry disable
# Option 2: The ASTRO_TELEMETRY_DISABLED environment variable disables telemetry when set.
ASTRO_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 astro dev
Visit https://astro.build/telemetry/ for more information about our approach to anonymous telemetry in Astro.
analytics-node is a package for sending data to Segment, a platform for collecting and analyzing user data. Unlike @astrojs/telemetry, which is specific to Astro projects, analytics-node is a general-purpose tool for integrating with the Segment analytics platform.
amplitude-js is a JavaScript SDK for Amplitude, a product analytics service. It provides more comprehensive analytics features compared to @astrojs/telemetry, which is focused on collecting basic usage data for Astro projects.
mixpanel-browser is a library for integrating Mixpanel analytics into web applications. It offers advanced tracking and analysis capabilities, whereas @astrojs/telemetry is designed for simple, anonymous data collection specific to Astro.
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The npm package @astrojs/telemetry receives a total of 2,799,813 weekly downloads. As such, @astrojs/telemetry popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @astrojs/telemetry demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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