# Enabling Telemetry for your Matrix server (optional) By default, this playbook configures your Matrix homeserver to not send any telemetry data anywhere. The [matrix.org](https://matrix.org) team would really appreciate it if you could help the project out by reporting anonymized usage statistics from your homeserver. Only very [basic aggregate data](#usage-statistics-being-submitted) (e.g. number of users) will be reported, but it helps track the growth of the Matrix community, and helps to make Matrix a success. ## Enabling Telemetry If you'd like to **help by enabling submission of anonymized usage statistics** for your homeserver, add this to your configuration file (`inventory/host_vars/matrix.<your-domain>/vars.yml`): ```yaml matrix_synapse_report_stats: true ``` ## Usage statistics being submitted If statistics reporting is enabled, the information that gets submitted to the matrix.org team [according to the source code](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/synapse/app/homeserver.py) is: - your homeserver's domain name - uptime of the homeserver program - [Python](https://www.python.org/) version powering your homeserver - total number of users on your home server (including bridged users) - total number of native Matrix users on your home server - total number of rooms on your homeserver - total number of daily active users on your homeserver - total number of daily active rooms on your homeserver - total number of messages sent per day - cache setting information - CPU and memory statistics for the homeserver program - database engine type and version