#Telemetry

2026-02-03

@rhaen
Interesting, and nice you shared it.
So far I only know of D3 but do not have any practice, so tank you for sharing.
Just for information, there are also some telemetry widgets you can install on an EdgeTX transmitter. TX15 should be able to run them quite smooth.
This widget is quite similar to what you did: github.com/offer-shmuely/edget
And I think EdgeTX Companion has a Telemetry viewer too.

#EdgeTx #RC #telemetry

Revath S Kumar :javascript:revathskumar@fosstodon.org
2026-01-21

Started collecting some env variables to opt out telemetry from different cli tools and #javascript frameworks

cli-telemetry.revathskumar.wor

#optout #cli #telemetry #donottrack #fish #zsh

This Week in Data: There’s No Such Thing as a Normal Month

(“This Week in Data” is a series of blog posts that the Data Team at Mozilla is using to communicate about our work. Posts in this series could be release notes, documentation, hopes, dreams, or whatever: so long as it’s about data.)

At the risk of reminding you of a Nickleback song, look at this graph:

I’ve erased the y-axis because the absolute values don’t actually matter for this discussion, but this is basically a sparkline plot of active users of Firefox Desktop for 2025. The line starts and ends basically at the same height but wow does it have a lot of ups and downs between.

I went looking at this shape recently while trying to estimate the costs of continuing to collect Legacy Telemetry in Firefox Desktop. We’re at the point in our migration to Glean where you really ought to start removing your Legacy Telemetry probes unless you have some ongoing analyses that depend on them. I was working out a way to get a back-of-the-envelope dollar figure to scare teams into prioritizing such removals to be conducted sooner rather than later.

Our ingestion metadata (how many bytes were processed by which pieces of the pipeline) only goes back sixty days, and I was worried that basing my cost estimate on numbers from December 2025 would make them unusually low compared to “a normal month”.

But what’s “normal”? Which of these months could be considered “normal” by any measure? I mean:

  • January: Beginning-of-year holiday slump
  • February: Only twenty-eight days long
  • March: Easter (sometimes), DST begins
  • April: Easter (sometimes), something that really starts suppressing activity
  • May: What’s with that big rebound in the second half?
  • June: Last day of school
  • July: School’s out, Northern Hemisphere Summer means less time on the ‘net and more time touching grass
  • August: Typical month for vacations in Europe
  • September: Back-to-school
  • October: Maybe “normal”?
  • November: US Thanksgiving
  • December: End-of-year holiday slump

October and maybe May are perhaps the closest things we have to “normal” months, and by being the only “normal”-ish months that makes them rather abnormal, don’t you think?

Now, I’ve been lying to you with data visualization here. If you’re exceedingly clever you’ll notice that, in the sparkline plot above, not only did I take the y-axis labels off, I didn’t start the y-axis at 0 (we had far more than zero active users of Firefox Desktop at the end of August, after all). I chose this to be illustrative of the differences from month to month, exaggerating them for effect. But if you look at, say, the Monthly Active Users (now combined Mobile + Desktop) on data.firefox.com it paints a rather more sedate picture, doesn’t it:

This isn’t a 100% fair comparison as data.firefox.com goes back years, and I stretched 2025 to be the same width, above… but you see what data visualization choices can do to help or hinder the story you’re hoping to tell.

At any rate, I hope you found it as interesting as I did to learn that December’s abnormality makes it just as “normal” as the rest of the months for my cost estimation purposes.

:chutten

#countingIsHarderThanItLooks #data #dataScience #mozilla #telemetry #thisWeekInData #thisWeekInGlean #twid #twig #work

An orange sparkline plot with many valleys, peaks, and plateaus (described in more detail in the text)An area plot that is mostly flat showing data from 2021 to 2026 of around 200M clients.
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2026-01-20

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Tao of Mactaoofmac
2026-01-18

Notes for January 1-18

Return to work happened mostly as expected–my personal productivity instantly tanked, but I still managed to finish a few things I’d started during the holiday break–and started en(...)

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Notes for January 1-18

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll)

지난 10년간 비대칭적 도구들을 구축하면서 네트워크 파티션 같은 장애를 모니터링하기 위해 과도한 텔레메트리를 수집해왔다는 지적. 결과적으로 사람들은 가용한 데이터만으로 며칠씩 파고들고 전체를 보는 관점(holistic view)이 없어 문제 해결이 비효율적이라는 관찰을 공유함.

x.com/rakyll/status/2012584259

#observability #telemetry #networkpartitions #monitoring

Frank Paul Silye 🇬🇱frankps@babb.no
2026-01-17

RE: mastodon.social/@techglimmer/1

Sit down with a cup of coffee and read this article about the upcoming phone from @jolla . Yeah, imagine there is something called privacy in the world of smartphones? And even on a modern phone?

#SailfishOS #Privacy #LinuxMobile #Telemetry #Surveillance

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2026-01-14


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Eric Hydrick (@erichydrick)

관측성(observability)을 강화하려 노력 중이며, 트윗 작성자는 @theo의 계측(instrumentation) 관련 영상이 실무적이고 가장 훌륭한 워크스루라고 평가합니다. AI/서비스 운영·모니터링을 개선하려는 개발자에게 유용한 계측 실무 가이드 추천성 멘션입니다.

x.com/erichydrick/status/20090

#observability #instrumentation #monitoring #telemetry

2026-01-06

@iris
Telemetry...

What would the poor #webdevs do without being able to track the exact mouse movement position and all...

Wonder if it actually reaches them in these cases or if e.g. cloudflare throws it away intermittendly then anyway...

#cloudflare #DDOS #telemetry

2026-01-05

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