What data is being collected by the Insights Operator in OpenShift?

Environment

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
  • 4
• Insights Operator

Issue

• How to find out what data the Insights Operator collects when it is enabled in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 cluster.
• Is it possible to disable the Insights Operator in OpenShift 4?

Resolution

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Refer to the information collected by the Insights Operator in the documentation. A complete list of data gathered can be found in the Content from github.com is not included.upstream documentation. Refer also to OpenShift Container Platform Telemetry Collection.

Note that starting with OpenShift 4.15, Red Hat ships further configuration options for the Insights Operator that may be of interest for better control: Configuring Insights Operator.

In case of wanting to disable the Insights Operator, please refer to remote health reporting. It is also possible to disable Insights Advisor recommendations without disabling the telemetry as explained in Enabling / Disabling Insights Advisor Recommendations.

Root Cause

As explained in the documentation about the Insights Operator , the Insights Operator periodically gathers configuration and component failure status and, by default, reports that data every two hours to Red Hat. This information enables Red Hat to assess configuration and deeper failure data than is reported through Telemetry.

Diagnostic Steps

Refer to the showing data collected by the Insights Operator to check the data collected by the Insights Operator.

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