UsageInsights: Disable frontend features when backend is disabled (#77772)

* UsageInsights: Disable frontend features when backend is disabled

* Disable DS insights

* Update doc

* fix linter issue

* Update docs/sources/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/_index.md

Co-authored-by: Christopher Moyer <35463610+chri2547@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: Christopher Moyer <35463610+chri2547@users.noreply.github.com>

docs/sources/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/_index.md

@@ -518,8 +518,7 @@ Sets a custom value for the `User-Agent` header for outgoing data proxy requests
 
 ### enabled
 
-This option is also known as _usage analytics_. When `false`, this option disables the writers that read/write from and to the Grafana databases. The default
-value is `true`.
+This option is also known as _usage analytics_. When `false`, this option disables the writers that write to the Grafana database and the associated features, such as dashboard and data source insights, presence indicators, and advanced dashboard search. The default value is `true`.
 
 ### reporting_enabled
 

packages/grafana-runtime/src/config.ts

@@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ export class GrafanaBootConfig implements GrafanaConfig {
   reporting = {
     enabled: true,
   };
+  analytics = {
+    enabled: true,
+  };
   googleAnalyticsId: undefined;
   googleAnalytics4Id: undefined;
   googleAnalytics4SendManualPageViews = false;

pkg/api/dtos/frontend_settings.go

@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ type FrontendSettingsReportingDTO struct {
 	Enabled bool `json:"enabled"`
 }
 
+type FrontendSettingsAnalyticsDTO struct {
+	Enabled bool `json:"enabled"`
+}
+
 type FrontendSettingsUnifiedAlertingDTO struct {
 	MinInterval              string `json:"minInterval"`
 	AlertStateHistoryBackend string `json:"alertStateHistoryBackend,omitempty"`
@@ -209,6 +213,7 @@ type FrontendSettingsDTO struct {
 	Caching                 FrontendSettingsCachingDTO         `json:"caching"`
 	RecordedQueries         FrontendSettingsRecordedQueriesDTO `json:"recordedQueries"`
 	Reporting               FrontendSettingsReportingDTO       `json:"reporting"`
+	Analytics               FrontendSettingsAnalyticsDTO       `json:"analytics"`
 	UnifiedAlertingEnabled  bool                               `json:"unifiedAlertingEnabled"`
 	UnifiedAlerting         FrontendSettingsUnifiedAlertingDTO `json:"unifiedAlerting"`
 	Oauth                   map[string]any                     `json:"oauth"`

pkg/api/frontendsettings.go

@@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ func (hs *HTTPServer) getFrontendSettings(c *contextmodel.ReqContext) (*dtos.Fro
 		Reporting: dtos.FrontendSettingsReportingDTO{
 			Enabled: hs.Cfg.SectionWithEnvOverrides("reporting").Key("enabled").MustBool(true),
 		},
+		Analytics: dtos.FrontendSettingsAnalyticsDTO{
+			Enabled: hs.Cfg.SectionWithEnvOverrides("analytics").Key("enabled").MustBool(true),
+		},
 
 		UnifiedAlerting: dtos.FrontendSettingsUnifiedAlertingDTO{
 			MinInterval: hs.Cfg.UnifiedAlerting.MinInterval.String(),

public/app/features/datasources/state/navModel.ts

@@ -78,29 +78,31 @@ export function buildNavModel(dataSource: DataSourceSettings, plugin: GenericDat
     });
   }
 
-  const analyticsExperimentId = 'feature-highlights-data-source-insights-badge';
-  const analytics: NavModelItem = {
-    active: false,
-    icon: 'info-circle',
-    id: `datasource-insights-${dataSource.uid}`,
-    text: 'Insights',
-    url: `datasources/edit/${dataSource.uid}/insights`,
-  };
+  if (config.analytics?.enabled) {
+    const analyticsExperimentId = 'feature-highlights-data-source-insights-badge';
+    const analytics: NavModelItem = {
+      active: false,
+      icon: 'info-circle',
+      id: `datasource-insights-${dataSource.uid}`,
+      text: 'Insights',
+      url: `datasources/edit/${dataSource.uid}/insights`,
+    };
 
-  if (highlightTrial() && !isLoadingNav) {
-    analytics.tabSuffix = () => ProBadge({ experimentId: analyticsExperimentId, eventVariant: 'trial' });
-  }
+    if (highlightTrial() && !isLoadingNav) {
+      analytics.tabSuffix = () => ProBadge({ experimentId: analyticsExperimentId, eventVariant: 'trial' });
+    }
 
-  if (featureEnabled('analytics')) {
-    if (contextSrv.hasPermission(AccessControlAction.DataSourcesInsightsRead)) {
-      navModel.children!.push(analytics);
+    if (featureEnabled('analytics')) {
+      if (contextSrv.hasPermission(AccessControlAction.DataSourcesInsightsRead)) {
+        navModel.children!.push(analytics);
+      }
+    } else if (highlightsEnabled && !isLoadingNav) {
+      navModel.children!.push({
+        ...analytics,
+        url: analytics.url + '/upgrade',
+        tabSuffix: () => ProBadge({ experimentId: analyticsExperimentId }),
+      });
     }
-  } else if (highlightsEnabled && !isLoadingNav) {
-    navModel.children!.push({
-      ...analytics,
-      url: analytics.url + '/upgrade',
-      tabSuffix: () => ProBadge({ experimentId: analyticsExperimentId }),
-    });
   }
 
   const cachingExperimentId = 'feature-highlights-query-caching-badge';