From version 1.2.0 onwards Karate sends a very limited set of events to a hosted instance of Posthog - an open-source analytics solution. Access to this is managed by the Karate Labs team.
Only one (anonymous) event is captured: which is when someone views the HTML report that Karate generates. Note that using the HTML report is completely optional.
If you set an OS environment property called KARATE_TELEMETRY to the value false, no events will be sent.
Users can also completely disable HTML reporting via the API or command-line.
There is always the option of using a third-party report (via the JUnit-XML or Cucumber-JSON output).
Karate is an open-source project and there is no direct way to track usage and whether awareness camapigns are working.
Now that we are a for-profit open-source company, a basic level of usage data will help us focus on the right areas of product development.
- Anonymized Machine ID
- Browser Details (including OS info)
- Karate Version
- How Karate was invoked (via IDE plugin, NPM, etc.)
The dashboard is accessible only to the Karate Labs team that maintains Karate.