By having the OpenShift Insights Operator gathering data from OSP CRDs, this data can be ingested into Insights and plug in into the existing tools and processes under the Insights/CCX teams.

This will allow us to create dedicated Superset dashboards or query the data using SQL via the Trino API to for example:

• Tell how many OSP installations we have
• See trends in eg. the number of nodes per deployment
• Adoption rate of a particular OSP (>18) release
• Upgrade/update rates
• Answer questions such as: how many OSP deployments are using Fibre Channel as their Cinder driver?
• ... 

Besides, customers will benefit from any Insights rules that we'll be adding over time to for example anticipate issues or detect misconfigurations, suggest parameter tunings, etcetera.

Examples of how OCP Insights uses this data can be seen in the "Let's Do The Numbers" series of monthly presentations.

This epic is targeted only for the RHOSO (So OSP18 and newer). There are no any changes nor support for that planned in OSP-17.1 or older.