From 33ef9753fb1f23992dafdf55a80f5ca5f291aac0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Bocci <boccianthony@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:51:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Create the beacons documentation

The beacons documentation file is based on the online version at:
https://docs.cachethq.io/docs/beacons
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+# Beacons
+
+> **Version Support**
+> Beacons will be introduced in v2.4.0
+
+Cachet will periodically communicate with our remote server. This is done so
+that we're able to gather information about the current version of Cachet
+and will later be used for system announcements.
+
+## Disabling the beacon
+
+To disable the beacon, you can turn off the following setting in your .env file.
+
+```
+CACHET_BEACON=false
+```
+
+## What is reported?
+
+We report the following information to our server:
+
+- A unique installation ID
+- The current version of Cachet
+- A support contact email (the first enabled admin's email)
+- Anonymous statistics (the number of users, incidents, components and metrics)
+
+> **Support Contact Email**
+> The contact email is used for the sole purpose of security
+> announcements and will never be used for anything else.
+