On 24th October 2019, the GitLab administration team received the following update from GitLab. We are currently users of the self-hosted GitLab Ultimate service and will be affected.
Once we roll-out the 12.4 release, GitLab will be using a third-part SaaS service to collect telemetry.
Once we roll-out the 12.4 release the company which write GitLab will be using a third-party SaaS service to collect telemetry from our instance.
We have had no word if there will be a mechanism for Enterprise customers to opt-out of telemetry collection.