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Telemetry and MFE #540

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For much of its history, MFE has experienced many crashes that are, from reporting of the Windows default reporting, unexplainable. As such, I was considering using telemetry (in essence, a mechanism to automatically report crash information). I wish that this would help me deal better with issues that have to do with the app crashing.

Currently, I'm considering using Microsoft's Application Insights, although depending on needs I might decide to switch to another service.

I have to make a few points clear about this, if this goes into plan:

  • We do not (and will not) collect usage data, only app crashes.
  • We do not (and will not) collect or upload any of your files, not even configuration files.
  • We will do our best to minimize collection of potentially sensitive information.
  • The app crash data is solely for diagnosing and fixing app crashes and is only visible to us developers. It is not given out or sold to anyone else.
  • The data stays for 90 days as default, although I'm open to suggestions (minimum is 30 days). After that it is deleted and is no way accessible.

If anyone has any feedback, please leave it in the comments. I haven't yet decided to implement this, so please send your comments down.

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