# Module statistics?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/module-statistics/19665>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [October 31, 2015, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/module-statistics/19665 "2015-10-31T10:08:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rene\_Moser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@Rene\_Moser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rene_Moser)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2015, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/module-statistics/19665/1 "2015-10-31T10:08:43Z")

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Hi

As I module developer I am interested in usage information about my modules.

So I had an idea, that ansible (or maybe tower?) could gather statistics  
(opt-in) about what modules are used and how often. These statistics  
should be anonymously and should not contain any arguments passed, only  
the module name and date used

I would like to see these stats public available for everyone. Any thoughts?

Yours  
René

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**Author:** ![Greg\_DeKoenigsberg1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@Greg\_DeKoenigsberg1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Greg_DeKoenigsberg1)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/module-statistics/19665/2 "2015-11-02T15:22:20Z")

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> Hi
> 
> As I module developer I am interested in usage information about my modules.
> 
> So I had an idea, that ansible (or maybe tower?) could gather statistics  
> (opt-in) about what modules are used and how often. These statistics  
> should be anonymously and should not contain any arguments passed, only  
> the module name and date used
> 
> I would like to see these stats public available for everyone. Any thoughts?

We've had some talks about this kind of opt-in piece. Would look a lot  
like popcon, I imagine. Probably a fairly straightforward plug-in, but  
we'd need a reliable server to collect the data. I presume it's  
basically anonymized data that with each run says "a user invoked  
these 5 modules".

In particular, this would be useful to figure out where to spend more  
time on test coverage, where the proper line between Core and Extras  
should be, etc., etc.

If it's opt-in and properly anonymized, are there any objections to  
this kind of thing from anyone?

--g