Kentico improvement program

Kentico contains a mechanism for collecting and sending data about the system’s usage – the Kentico improvement program. The data helps guide the development of future versions. Providing this data to Kentico allows us to build a better product and platform for your applications by targeting the areas that are most used.

The program is completely optional and can be enabled or disabled when installing new projects, or at any time for existing projects using the Send anonymous usage records to Kentico setting in Settings -> System. By default, the program is disabled.

Participating in the Kentico improvement program does not significantly affect site performance. The system collects and sends the data using the Send module usage data scheduled task, once per week by default.

All collected data is strictly anonymous and for internal use only. Kentico does NOT acquire any data that could be used to identify the source of the information, such as:

Domain names or IP addresses
Computer or machine names
Site names
Page or object names
Code stack traces

Leaving the Kentico improvement program

If you decide to leave the improvement program after joining, you can do so at any time:

In the Kentico administration, open the Settings application.
Select System in the settings tree.
In the Site selector, select the (global) option.
Scroll down to the Kentico improvement programcategory.
Clear the Send anonymous usage records to Kentico check box.
Click Save.

The above configuration completely disables the Kentico improvement program for your project, and the system no longer tracks or sends any data to Kentico.

Tracked data

Below you can find a reference of all data types tracked by the Kentico improvement program.

General data

Server operating system
Server architecture (x64, x86)
CLR (Common Language Runtime) and .NET versions of the Kentico project
Highest Kentico license edition

Feature usage

Authentication mode (Forms, Windows, Mixed)
Usage of a separated database
Staging status (whether logging of staging synchronization tasks is enabled)
Object versioning status (whether object versioning is enabled globally)
List of object types that use versioning

Web farm data

Type of the used web farm synchronization mechanism
Number of web farms servers registered in the system
Number of enabled web farm servers
Number of queued web farm synchronization tasks that are unprocessed
Number of queued web farm synchronization tasks that are unprocessed due to inactive web farm servers
Number of queued web farm synchronization tasks that are in a failed state

Cloud hosting data

Hosting platform type (Microsoft Azure Cloud Services, Microsoft Azure Web Sites)
CDN type (Microsoft Azure, Amazon)
Type of the external file system storage provider (Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage)

Object counters

The Kentico improvement program tracks the number of the following objects:

Pages (total)
Wireframe type pages
Sites (total)
Sites (running)
Users
Web parts
MVC type page templates
Boolean on-line marketing settings with a non-default value
Chat rooms
Projects
Device profiles
Objects that have custom CSS:
- Transformations
- Web parts
- Web part layouts
- Web part containers
- Page layouts
- Page templates (custom page layouts)
- Device-specific page layouts

E-commerce object counters

The Kentico improvement program tracks the number of the following E-commerce objects:

Parent products (without variants and options)
Product variants
Product pages
Orders
Customers
Sites with at least one order
Department administrators
Exchange tables with an exchange rate from a global main currency to a site-specific main currency

On-line marketing counters

The Kentico improvement program tracks the number of the following On-line marketing objects since version 8.2.12:

Contacts
Global unmerged contacts
Site unmerged contact
Contact groups
Enabled dynamic contact groups
Enabled static contact groups
Contacts in every contact group
Contact groups containing at least 1 account
Enabled marketing automation processes
Disabled marketing automation processes
Contacts in every marketing automation process
Email campaigns
Email campaigns with the archive enabled
Dynamic email campaigns
Email campaigns with enabled resending
Email campaigns that track link clicks
Email campaigns that track page openings
Double opt-in email campaigns
A/B tests in email campaigns
Emails in every email campaign
Subscribers
Subscribers in every email campaign
Email templates
Email templates of the “email” type
Additional templates for every email
Personas
Enabled personas
Rules for every persona
Contacts in every persona
Reports
Users subscribed to at least 1 report
Scores
Enabled scores
Rules for every score
Contacts in every score

Data example

The following are examples of data sent as part of the Kentico improvement program (in JSON format).

The value in the Identity field is a randomly generated GUID that groups together data from a single source. The identity cannot be used to track the actual origin of the data.




{
    "DateTime": "2014-12-04T08:49:11.7755762Z",
    "Identity": "190eda8d-7476-448a-aa7a-4d8fc1bb439d",
    "DataSourceName": "CMS.Staging",
    "ProductVersion": "8.2",
    "DataCollectionTime": 0,
    "Items": [{
        "Key": "StagingEnabled",
        "Value": false,
        "Type": "Boolean"
    }]
},

{
    "DateTime": "2014-12-04T08:49:11.7755762Z",
    "Identity": "190eda8d-7476-448a-aa7a-4d8fc1bb439d",
    "DataSourceName": "CMS.LicenseProvider",
    "ProductVersion": "8.2",
    "DataCollectionTime": 0,
    "Items": [{
        "Key": "HighestLicenseEdition",
        "Value": "EnterpriseMarketingSolution",
        "Type": "String"
    }]
},

{
    "DateTime": "2014-12-04T08:49:11.7755762Z",
    "Identity": "190eda8d-7476-448a-aa7a-4d8fc1bb439d",
    "DataSourceName": "CMS.ObjectCount",
    "ProductVersion": "8.2",
    "DataCollectionTime": 17,
    "Items": [{
        "Key": "ecommerce_customer",
        "Value": 338,
        "Type": "Long"
    },
    {
        "Key": "chat_room",
        "Value": 161,
        "Type": "Long"
    },
    {
        "Key": "ecommerce_order",
        "Value": 349,
        "Type": "Long"
    },
    {
        "Key": "cms_site",
        "Value": 70,
        "Type": "Long"
    },
    {
        "Key": "cms_document",
        "Value": 10347,
        "Type": "Long"
    },
    {
        "Key": "cms_webpart",
        "Value": 653,
        "Type": "Long"
    },
    {
        "Key": "cms_deviceprofile",
        "Value": 16,
        "Type": "Long"
    },
    {
        "Key": "cms_user",
        "Value": 635,
        "Type": "Long"
    },
    {
        "Key": "pm_project",
        "Value": 83,
        "Type": "Long"
    }]
}