About this tag
IDE telemetry covers how development environments report usage and activity data back to vendors and administrators. A recent example involved a GitHub Copilot agent metrics bug that undercounted IDE usage after several editors moved agent sessions onto the Copilot SDK, causing sessions to stop reporting their originating editor. The result was missing or misattributed activity in Copilot dashboards, with some usage counted as Copilot CLI activity instead. The fix arrived through IDE and plugin updates, including Visual Studio Code 1.139.0, with Visual Studio, JetBrains, Eclipse and Xcode following. The tag is useful for tracking how telemetry accuracy, editor updates and reporting tools affect developer visibility.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    GitHub Copilot Agent Metrics Bug Undercounts IDE Usage: Update VS Code 1.139.0

    If your GitHub Copilot dashboard showed agent activity falling while overall Copilot use kept climbing, your developers probably didn't give up on agents. GitHub says the cause was a bug in how usage was counted. Several IDEs moved Copilot agent sessions onto the Copilot SDK, and those sessions...