Configuring Telemetrics

To enable better support, by default, Amazon Kinesis Agent for Microsoft Windows collects statistics about the operation of the agent and sends them to AWS. This information contains no personally identifiable information. It doesn't include any data that you gather or stream to AWS services. We collect approximately 1–2 KB of this metric data every 60 minutes.

You can opt out of the collection and transmission of these statistics. To do this, add the following key-value pair to the appsettings.json configuration file at the same level as sources, sinks, and pipes:

"Telemetrics": 
    { "off": "true" }         
    

For example, the following configuration file configures a source, sink, and pipe, and also disables telemetrics:

{
  "Sources": [
    {
      "Id": "ApplicationLogSource",
      "SourceType": "DirectorySource",
      "Directory": "C:\\LogSource\\",
      "FileNameFilter": "*.log",
      "RecordParser": "SingleLine"
    }
  ],
  "Sinks": [
    {
       "Id": "ApplicationLogKinesisFirehoseSink",
       "SinkType": "KinesisFirehose",
       "StreamName": "ApplicationLogFirehoseDeliveryStream",
       "Region": "us-east-1"
    }  
    ],
  "Pipes": [
    {
      "Id": "ApplicationLogSourceToApplicationLogKinesisFirehoseSink",
      "SourceRef": "ApplicationLogSource",
      "SinkRef": "ApplicationLogKinesisFirehoseSink"
    }
  ],
  "Telemetrics":
    {
      "off": "true"
    }
}    

We collect the following metrics when telemetry is enabled:

In addition, we collect the metrics listed in List of Kinesis Agent for Windows Metrics.