Concepts

There are common concepts used throughout Telemetry:

  • pings - the packets we use to submit data

  • sessions & subsessions - how we slice a users’ time in the browser

  • measurements - how we collect data

  • opt-in & opt-out - the different sets of data we collect

  • submission - how we send data to the servers

  • archiving - retaining ping data locally

  • crashes - the different data crashes generate