Telemetry Compliance

Last updated at: February 10, 2024

Codemod.com VSCode’s Extension Telemetry Data

The Codemod.com VSCode’s Extension (v0.25.0 and later) uses the VSCode’s official telemetry extension and the telemetry data are thus sent and stored in the Azure App Insights.

As Microsoft treates the GPDR and similar laws seriously (as outlined here), so does Codemod.com. We followed the extension guide on telemetry to ensure that we do not collect Personally-Identifiable Information (PII) and we send only the data we need for the continuous improvement of our product.

The extension tracks the events happening within the extension and they have following properties (this is described in the extension’s source code).

Properties

Some of these properties are required by the VSCode’s official telemetry extension and are described here.

Property Name	Description	When tracked	Required by the VSCode’s extension telemetry module	Sample value
kind	the type of event	tracked by default	No	codemodExecuted
common.os	users computer operating system	tracked by default	Yes	“darwin”
common.nodeArch	users computer CPU architecture	tracked by default	Yes	“x64”
common.platformversion	the platform version	tracked by default	Yes	“21.6.0”
common.telemetryclientversion	telemetry client version	tracked by default	Yes	“0.7.7”
common.extname	extension name (codemod-vscode-extension)	tracked by default	Yes	“codemod.codemod-vscode-extension”
common.extversion	extension version	tracked by default	Yes	“0.25.0”
common.vscodemachineid	machine id	tracked by default	Yes	“1a24c4eac3fd66ea27ad523d1f67c7c877279d8bf2a60160965aaee98582e0bc”
common.vscodesessionid	user session id	tracked by default	Yes	“61d1723e-9b15-4848-a80a-20ae2c620bad1685720116803”
common.vscodeversion	version of the vscode	tracked by default	Yes	“1.78.2”
common.isnewappinstall	has the app been just installed	tracked by default	Yes	true/false
common.product	where is VSCode hosted	tracked by default	Yes	desktop, github.dev, codespaces
common.uikind	where is VSCode running?	tracked by default	Yes	desktop, web
common.remotename	type of remote connection	tracked by default	Yes	ssh, docker, wsl, other
executionId	id of the codemod execution	passed if applicable	No	“32668”
codemodName	name of the executed codemod	passed if applicable	No	New Link
fileCount	number of files processed by codemod	passed if applicable	No	1
jobCount	number of jobs that were accepted or rejected	passed if applicable	No	1

Users can disable telemetry by going into Settings, searching the for telemetry.telemetryLevel setting and setting it to off. You can read more here.

Users can review the telemetry events by using the VSCode’s Developer: Set Log Level... command and selecting the Trace log level. Then they should navigate to the Output Panel and pick Extension Telemetry from the dropdown to see the logs. You can read more here.