---
title: "Universal Tracker Collection service"
slug: "universal-tracker-collection-service"
abstract: "Overview of Sitecore Universal Tracker Collection supported infrastructure, references, scaling, and privacy and security."
---
# Universal Tracker Collection service

The Universal Tracker Collection service collects live interaction data and stores that data temporarily in the Universal Tracker database.

## Supported infrastructure

You can host the Universal Tracker Collection service on:

- IIS
- [Azure App Services](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/)

Refer to the [Sitecore compatibility table](https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/087164) for compatible versions.

## Reference structure

The Universal Tracker Collection service has its place in the Sitecore reference structure. It can be referenced by other roles, and it can also reference other roles.

![Illustration showing the Universal Tracker Collection service's place in the Sitecore reference structure.](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/92/platform-administration-and-architecture/images/universal-tracking-collection.PNG)

### Referenced by

The Universal Tracker Collection service is not referenced by other roles.

### References

The Universal Tracker Collection service references the following roles:

#### Storage roles

| Role name | Connection string name | Port | Type | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Universal Tracker database | N/A |  | SQL | Connection string is located in the `<root>\sitecore\Sitecore.Tracking.SqlServer\Config\config.xml` configuration file. |

## Privacy and security

The Universal Tracker Collection service handles personal data in the following way:

- Receives interactions and events over the network. Interactions may include a reference to a known contact identifier.
- Writes interaction and event data to the [Universal Tracker database](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/92/platform-administration-and-architecture/universal-tracker-database.html "Universal Tracker database").