Disable Analytics in Sitecore 8
I have a Sitecore Experience Platform (Sitecore version 8 in layman terms) that I would like to NOT use the Analytics. When I look at Sitecore Experience, analytics are all throughout. I would like to disable Analytics in a "clean" way, but for Sitecore 8 as I understand it approach is different. What is the correct approach?
Note: Yes, I know about:
<setting name="Analytics.Enabled" value="false" />
And yes, I saw the seemingly related question on Stack Overflow.
Thank you in advance!! Sasha
Answer
The Sitecore KB article which looks like it was published after the initial question mentions only the
<setting name="Analytics.Enabled" value="false" />
line mentioned above in /App_Config/Include/Sitecore.Analytics.config, as well as commenting out / removing the connection strings in /App_Config/ConnectionStrings.config.
<add name="analytics" connectionString="mongodb://localhost/analytics" />
<add name="tracking.live" connectionString="mongodb://localhost/tracking_live" />
<add name="tracking.history" connectionString="mongodb://localhost/tracking_history" />
<add name="tracking.contact" connectionString="mongodb://localhost/tracking_contact" />
<add name="reporting" connectionString="user id=user;password=password;Data Source=(server);Database=Sitecore_Analytics" />
It also outlines the numerous limitations which take affect because of the lack of xDB.
This seems to be a popular question/answer, so some updated info: for Sitecore 8.1 without xDB, this is now called "CMS-only mode" and can be enabled in a similar way - by setting Xdb.enabled to "false" in Sitecore.Xdb.config.