Knowing how Hudson is used is a tremendous help in guiding the direction of the development, especially for open-source projects where users are inheritenly hard to track down. When this option is enabled, Hudson periodically send information about your usage of Hudson.

Specifically, it contains the following information:

- Your Hudson version
- For your master and each slave, OS type, and # of executors
- Plugins that are installed and their versions
- Number jobs per each job type in your Hudson

The information doesn't contain anything that identifies you or allows us to contact you (except information inherently revealed by HTTP, such as the IP address). Tabulated data of these usage statistics submissions will be shared with the community.

You can read more at the Usage Statistic Collection wiki page, and you are welcome to add your comments here.