Plan Mode Telemetry Now Available

GitHub has added comprehensive telemetry tracking for Copilot's plan mode to its usage metrics platform. This expansion enables enterprises to monitor how teams are adopting and utilizing plan mode features directly within their integrated development environments, providing a more complete picture of Copilot adoption across the organization.

Supported IDEs and Access

Plan mode metrics are available across multiple development environments:

• JetBrains IDE
• Eclipse
• Xcode
• VS Code Insiders (with general VS Code release expected soon)

Telemetry is accessible at the enterprise, organization, and user levels within the existing Copilot usage metrics experience.

Accessing Plan Mode Metrics

Via REST API: Plan mode usage is denoted by chat_panel_plan_mode under the following API response keys:

• totals_by_feature
• totals_by_language_feature
• totals_by_model_feature

Via Dashboard UI: View plan mode breakdowns by navigating to Insights > Copilot usage in the GitHub dashboard.

Important Consideration

Note that plan mode telemetry was previously grouped within "Custom" metrics. With this separation, you may observe a decline in "Custom" usage figures. This change may affect dashboard visualizations like "Requests per chat mode" and "Model usage per chat mode" as metrics are now properly categorized.

Ensure Copilot usage metrics is enabled at the enterprise or organization level to access this feature.