Go Telemetry - How to generate and where to find

[nick (Nick C)]

@madhusudan.brm

Does it mean telemetry data won’t be generated if we run the exe’s in development environment? If yes, then when would this telemetry data is generated?

If you run your program with go run, Go collects telemetry data about the go run process.

Go does not collect telemetry data when you run a compiled application separately from Go tooling. If you go build to compile your hello application and then run ./hello, Go collects telemetry from the go build invocation but not from ./hello.

The Go Telemetry page notes that the scope is limited to Go’s tooling:

Go telemetry is a way for Go toolchain programs to collect data about their performance and usage. Here “Go toolchain” means developer tools maintained by the Go team, including the go command and supplemental tools such as the Go language server gopls or Go security tool govulncheck. Go telemetry is only intended for use in programs maintained by the Go team and their selected dependencies like Delve.