Enable telemetry reporting in production

The Sitecore telemetry reporting feature gathers information that helps Sitecore understand how customers use our products. The environment type (production or non-production) helps us to associate the features used with the appropriate use-cases.

The telemetry system assumes Sitecore Experience Platform is running in a non-production environment by default. When you set up a production environment, you must therefore define a system variable to report the environment type.

To define a system variable:

1. In the Control Panel, click System, Advanced system settings.

   

2. In the System Properties dialog, click Environment Variables.

   

3. In the Environment Variables dialog, in the System variables section, click New.

4. In the New System Variable dialog, in the Variable name field, enter SITECORE_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE and in the Variable value field, enter Production.

   

5. Restart the computer.