> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.payback.sh/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Product analytics

> What the CLI and the website report about how you use payback, what they never contain, and how to turn it off.

payback records what you do with the CLI as product events: which command ran, what you chose in setup, that a session was captured and uploaded, and when. They are written to `~/.payback/product/` and shipped to our server, which attaches your GitHub login and the CLI version and forwards them to Mixpanel. The website reports page views, installs and sign-ins the same way.

An event never contains your prompts, transcripts, code, file paths, secrets, IP address or email, and names a repository only when it is public or on your allow list.

## Turning it off

Either of these stops the CLI's events:

```toml theme={null}
# ~/.payback/config.toml
telemetry = false
```

```bash theme={null}
export PAYBACK_NO_TELEMETRY=1
```

Hooks never make network calls for analytics; events are shipped by the background uploader and when a command exits.


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