Phone Home
All Payara Platform distributions report back a limited amount of information about their specific configuration at launch time. No sensitive data about your machine or specific usage of Payara Server is sent to 0s or any member of the Payara Services team.
Gathered phone home data is sent via a GET request to http://www.payara.fish/phonehome
The following is the list of information attributes gathered by the Phone Home service:
| Attribute | Example |
|---|---|
Payara Server Version |
6.0.0 #badassfish |
Java Virtual Machine Version |
1.8.0_121 |
Domain Uptime |
36500 |
Number of nodes in the domain |
1 |
Number of instances in the domain |
2 |
Randomly generated UUID |
eaa6fe2c-2388-4aa7-fdcc-288c7b318ddfeaa6ef23-2388-4aa7-8dcc-288c7b318ddf |
This is the only data which the phone home service gathers from your system.
| The UUID is specific to the DAS and is randomly generated on startup, so it is not machine specific. |
What is the data used for?
The phone home data is presently used to gather usage statistics about the corresponding distribution, such as how long users typically run instances, and what versions they use.
Previously this could only be done at an extremely simple level from downloads over time, giving us no idea how Payara Server is used beyond specific interactions with contributors and customers which may not accurately represent the state of our user base.
The phone home service was designed as a non-intrusive survey tool which would only gather data specific to Payara and has no contact with any running applications, or indeed anything on your machine other than the mentioned attributes.
Disabling and Enabling Phone Home
The phone home service is enabled by default when starting a Payara Server or Payara Micro. The phone home service can be easily disabled in the following ways.