GitLab self-hosted instances data sharing
Solution 1:
Self-hosted GitLab has exactly two features which send data to GitLab:
- Usage ping, which you have already discovered, which collects a variety of anonymized statistics about how users use GitLab, and
- Version check, which checks to see if an update is available.
GitLab Inc. collects your instance’s version and hostname (through the HTTP referer) as part of the version check. No other information is collected.
Both can be enabled or disabled at will.