How much of my code does CodeCarbon get access to?

[hayley-wragg]

We want to set up a carbon tracking script for lot's of staff in our department. But we need to make sure that the only information being shared is the energy/ carbon usage.
We need to ensure the code and any data called within the code is not shared with CodeCarbon, as well as any identifiable information on the machine.

[LuisBlanche]

Hello,
First of all, it depends on how you use code carbon. You can for instance use offline mode, which would be 100% private, and would store the results of your C02 monitoring in a CSV on the machine that is running the code.
If you choose however to send data to the publicly hosted API, and to the dashboard, then this data is public.
You can also choose to deploy the API, and Database on your onw infastructur (on prem or cloud) which you can do using the docker-compose

You can report to the example folder to see how the different configuration log data. In this very folder you have an emissions.csv file that shows what type of data is logged.

It is on our 2024 roadmap to improve the API and Dashboard to include users and organisations management to allow secure control over what is shared or not.