Cursor telemetry and OpenTelemetry export (Privacy Mode, OTLP, Analytics API)

With Privacy Mode off, Cursor may use and store codebase data, prompts, editor actions and code snippets to improve its AI features and train its models. With Privacy Mode on, your data is not used for training by Cursor, and Cursor has zero data retention agreements with its model providers.

Cursor's data use page does not describe a separate telemetry toggle. Privacy Mode is the documented control.

• Open Cursor Settings with Cmd+Shift+J (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+J (Windows and Linux).
• Click General.
• Turn on Privacy Mode.

Configure it in Team Settings > OpenTelemetry Export. Cursor sends OTLP/HTTP with binary protobuf only. gRPC and JSON are not supported.

• Enter an HTTPS base URL with no /v1 suffix, for example https://otel.example.com. Cursor posts to /v1/metrics and /v1/logs.
• Add an auth header such as Authorization: Bearer <token>.
• Test the connection, then enable the destination. Export starts within about a minute.
• The endpoint must be reachable from the public internet.
• Cursor sends no traces.

receivers:
  otlp:
    protocols:
      http:
        endpoint: 0.0.0.0:4318

processors:
  batch:

exporters:
  logging:
    verbosity: basic

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [logging]
    logs:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [logging]

• Metrics: cursor.token.usage, cursor.tool.calls, cursor.cost.usage (a best effort USD estimate, not billing).
• Model usage logs: cursor.api.request, cursor.api.error, cursor.api.correction.
• Skills, hooks and plugins logs such as cursor.skill.activated and cursor.hook.execution_complete.
• Attributes include service.name=cursor, cursor.team.id, cursor.conversation.id and cursor.event.id (use it to dedupe logs).

Prompts, responses and tool payloads are not exported by default. There is no backfill.

All three use https://api.cursor.com with HTTP Basic auth: your API key is the username and the password is empty. Create keys in the Cursor Dashboard under API Keys.

• Analytics API: team usage, active users and model usage.
• Admin API: members, audit logs, daily usage and spend.
• AI Code Tracking API (alpha, Enterprise): lines per commit attributed to Tab, Composer or non AI code.

curl -X GET "https://api.cursor.com/analytics/team/agent-edits" \
  -u YOUR_API_KEY: