Activate or Deactivate VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP)

After deploying VMware Aria Operations for Logs, by default, your account is activated to take part in the VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP). However, you can opt out of the CEIP program.

If you deactivate CEIP, VMware may not be able to gain proactive insights about product issues that you might be facing or effectively prioritize essential feature enhancements of the product.

After installation or upgrade of VMware Aria Operations for Logs, you can deactivate the CEIP program by following these steps.

Prerequisites

Verify that you are logged in to the VMware Aria Operations for Logs web user interface as a Super Admin user, or a user associated with a role that has the relevant permissions. See Create and Modify Roles for more information.

Procedure

1. Expand the main menu and navigate to Configuration > General.
2. Expand Advanced Settings.
3. Deactivate the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP)option.
   Activating CEIP sends data to VMware. VMware Aria Operations for Logs uses a third-party tool called Pendo to collect analytics cookies. Pendo collects data based on your interaction with the user interface by tracking where you click, to help VMware understand how VMware Aria Operations for Logs is used. The analytics data is used to improve the VMware services and design them better. For more information, see the Privacy Notice.
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