Hi All
We at Broadcom are moving towards taking advantage of the telemetry capabilities in VSCode (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry) in all of our VSCode extensions. The intent of course is to understand how our customers are using the extensions and focus on addressing any issues that are hindering the adoption or usage of the features. We have worked with our customers to define the kind of metrics we would be capturing - and currently the intent is to focus on understanding:
- What extensions are being used or not being used?
- What are the usability issues, if any the users are running into?
- What are the performance issues, if any the users are running into?
Of course the set of metrics/events being collected will depend on the extension, there is common data like OS, Location of users etc.
As we are developing these capabilities across our VSCode extensions, questions are popping up on how telemetry would work in the cloud based or hosted IDE’s. We want to understand what architectural and design considerations for hosted IDE’s we need to consider as we ramp up the telemetry capabilities for our VSCode extensions.
The intent of this thread is to understand what efforts if any are on going re: telemetry or if this is something that needs to be explored in the context of OpenVSX extensions.
Let me know if you need any more information.
