How to disable Calico Telemetry in a Kubernetes cluster with the Canal or Calico CNI

Article Number: 000020047

Environment

A Kubernetes cluster, provisioned with the Calico or Canal CNI
kubectl access to the cluster with a kubeconfig sourced for a global admin or cluster owner user

Situation

By default, Calico reports anonymous telemetry data, containing the Calico version number and cluster size, to an endpoint at projectcalico.org. This article provides details on how to disable this reporting.

Resolution

To disable the Calico telemetry reporting, execute the following command against the cluster:

kubectl patch felixconfigurations.crd.projectcalico.org default  -p '{"spec":{"usageReportingEnabled": false}}' --type=merge