gemini-cli/packages/cli
Jerop Kipruto 53753f0455
Add telemetry command and refactor telemetry settings (#1060)
#750 

### Telemetry Settings
Refactors telemetry configuration to use a nested `telemetry` object in `settings.json`, for example:

```json
{
  "telemetry": {
    "enabled": true,
    "target": "gcp"
    "log-prompts": "true"
  },
  "sandbox": false
}
```

The above includes
- Centralized telemetry settings under a `telemetry` object in `settings.json`.
- CLI flags for the `gemini` command to override all telemetry sub-settings:
    - `--telemetry` / `--no-telemetry`
    - `--telemetry-target <local|gcp>`
    - `--telemetry-otlp-endpoint <URL>`
    - `--telemetry-log-prompts` / `--no-telemetry-log-prompts`
- Updates `packages/cli/src/config/config.ts` and `packages/core/src/config/config.ts` to read from the new settings structure and respect the new CLI flags.
- Modifies `scripts/handle-telemetry.js`, `scripts/local_telemetry.js`, and `scripts/telemetry_utils.js` to align with the new settings structure.
- Updates `docs/core/telemetry.md` to reflect the new settings structure, CLI flags, and order of precedence.
- Renames `logUserPromptsEnabled` to `logPrompts` for brevity.

### `npm run telemetry`

Add a new `npm run telemetry` command that uses `scripts/telemetry.js`, automates the entire process of setting up a local and GCP telemetry pipelines, including configuring the necessary settings in the `.gemini/settings.json` workspace file and installing required binaries (e.g. `otelcol-contrib`).

---
```shell
$ npm run telemetry -- --target=gcp

> gemini-cli@0.1.0 telemetry
> node scripts/telemetry.js --target=gcp

⚙️  Using command-line target: gcp
🚀 Running telemetry script for target: gcp.
 Starting Local Telemetry Exporter for Google Cloud 
⚙️  Enabled telemetry in workspace settings.
🔧 Set telemetry OTLP endpoint to http://localhost:4317.
🎯 Set telemetry target to gcp.
 Workspace settings updated.
 Using Google Cloud Project ID: foo-bar

🔑 Please ensure you are authenticated with Google Cloud:
  - Run `gcloud auth application-default login` OR ensure `GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS` environment variable points to a valid service account key.
  - The account needs "Cloud Trace Agent", "Monitoring Metric Writer", and "Logs Writer" roles.
 otelcol-contrib already exists at /Users/jerop/github/gemini-cli/.gemini/otel/bin/otelcol-contrib
🧹 Cleaning up old processes and logs...
 Deleted old GCP collector log.
📄 Wrote OTEL collector config to /Users/jerop/github/gemini-cli/.gemini/otel/collector-gcp.yaml
🚀 Starting OTEL collector for GCP... Logs: /Users/jerop/github/gemini-cli/.gemini/otel/collector-gcp.log
 Waiting for OTEL collector to start (PID: 17013)...
 OTEL collector started successfully on port 4317.

 Local OTEL collector for GCP is running.

🚀 To send telemetry, run the Gemini CLI in a separate terminal window.

📄 Collector logs are being written to: /Users/jerop/github/gemini-cli/.gemini/otel/collector-gcp.log

📊 View your telemetry data in Google Cloud Console:
   - Logs: https://console.cloud.google.com/logs/query;query=logName%3D%22projects%2Ffoo-bar%2Flogs%2Fgemini_cli%22?project=foo-bar
   - Metrics: https://console.cloud.google.com/monitoring/metrics-explorer?project=foo-bar
   - Traces: https://console.cloud.google.com/traces/list?project=foo-bar

Press Ctrl+C to exit.
^C
👋 Shutting down...
⚙️  Disabled telemetry in workspace settings.
🔧 Cleared telemetry OTLP endpoint.
🎯 Cleared telemetry target.
 Workspace settings updated.
🛑 Stopping otelcol-contrib (PID: 17013)...
 otelcol-contrib stopped.
```
2025-06-15 00:47:32 -04:00
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src Add telemetry command and refactor telemetry settings (#1060) 2025-06-15 00:47:32 -04:00
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README.md

Gemini CLI

This package contains the core command-line interface for Gemini CLI.

Setup

  1. Get a Gemini API Key: Obtain your API key from Google AI Studio: https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikey
  2. Set Environment Variable: Set the GEMINI_API_KEY environment variable to your obtained key. You can do this temporarily in your current shell session:
    export GEMINI_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
    
    Or add it to your shell's configuration file (like ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, or ~/.profile) for persistence:
    echo 'export GEMINI_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"' >> ~/.bashrc # Or your preferred shell config file
    source ~/.bashrc # Reload the config
    
    Replace "YOUR_API_KEY" with your actual key.

Building

To build only the CLI package, navigate to this directory (packages/cli) and run:

npm run build

This command executes the TypeScript compiler (tsc) as defined in this package's package.json. Ensure dependencies have been installed from the root directory (npm install) first.

Running

To start the Gemini CLI directly from this directory:

npm start

This command executes node dist/gemini.js as defined in this package's package.json.

Debugging

To debug the CLI application using VS Code:

  1. Start the CLI in debug mode from this directory (packages/cli):
    npm run debug
    
    This command runs node --inspect-brk dist/gemini.js, pausing execution until a debugger attaches.
  2. In VS Code (opened at the root of the monorepo), use the "Attach" launch configuration (found in .vscode/launch.json). This configuration is set up to attach to the Node.js process listening on port 9229, which is the default port used by --inspect-brk.