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These docs ask before they measure anything. If you accept, an analytics cookie counts which pages are read and where visitors come from, so the guides can be improved. The same random identifier is also used to count which steps of creating an account and getting started people complete, for SRE Agent itself; those counts are sent from our servers, only for visitors who accepted. If you decline, no analytics cookie is set and nothing is measured or counted.

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What is stored

The name of the answer cookie carries the version of the wording you saw. An answer given to an earlier wording is not reused: if you accepted then, you are asked again; if you declined, that stays a decline. The identifier holds no name or email address. With analytics on, a page view records the page, the address you came from, and basic browser details. Session recordings are off, and your browser’s Do Not Track setting is respected. The website, not the docs, also uses Google’s advertising measurement to see which ads lead to a sign-up. Its cookies (names starting with _ga, _gcl_ or _gac_) are set only if you accept. Until you do, Google receives only anonymous signals. The app’s sign-in and sign-up pages load the same measurement and show no banner of their own: they go by the answer you gave here or on the website, and treat everything as declined until you accept, or whenever your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control.

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What is counted from our servers

If you accepted, these steps are counted when they happen, with the identifier and the time and nothing else: creating an account, confirming your email address, your first alert source reaching SRE Agent, receiving your first alert, completing your first investigation, adding a data source, inviting a teammate, sending a sample alert, and starting an upgrade. The identifier belongs to the browser, not to a person. If someone else creates an account in a browser where you accepted, those steps are counted under that browser’s identifier. If your browser holds conflicting copies of your answer, that counts as not accepted.

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Change or withdraw your choice

Use Change your choice above at any time. Declining removes the analytics identifier and any Google advertising cookies from your browser straight away and stops anything further from being recorded. Your answer applies to the docs, the website and the app together, and is asked again after a year (after a week in Safari, which limits how long a page can keep a cookie).