diff --git a/llvm/CMakeLists.txt b/llvm/CMakeLists.txt
index c9ff3696e22d6..f5293e8663243 100644
--- a/llvm/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/llvm/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -829,6 +829,7 @@ option (LLVM_ENABLE_DOXYGEN "Use doxygen to generate llvm API documentation." OF
 option (LLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX "Use Sphinx to generate llvm documentation." OFF)
 option (LLVM_ENABLE_OCAMLDOC "Build OCaml bindings documentation." ON)
 option (LLVM_ENABLE_BINDINGS "Build bindings." ON)
+option (LLVM_BUILD_TELEMETRY "Build the telemetry library. This does not enable telemetry." ON)
 
 set(LLVM_INSTALL_DOXYGEN_HTML_DIR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_DOCDIR}/llvm/doxygen-html"
     CACHE STRING "Doxygen-generated HTML documentation install directory")
diff --git a/llvm/lib/CMakeLists.txt b/llvm/lib/CMakeLists.txt
index f6465612d30c0..d0a2bc9294381 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/llvm/lib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ add_subdirectory(ProfileData)
 add_subdirectory(Passes)
 add_subdirectory(TargetParser)
 add_subdirectory(TextAPI)
-add_subdirectory(Telemetry)
+if (LLVM_BUILD_TELEMETRY)
+  add_subdirectory(Telemetry)
+endif()
 add_subdirectory(ToolDrivers)
 add_subdirectory(XRay)
 if (LLVM_INCLUDE_TESTS)
diff --git a/llvm/unittests/CMakeLists.txt b/llvm/unittests/CMakeLists.txt
index 81abce51b8939..12e229b1c3498 100644
--- a/llvm/unittests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/llvm/unittests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ add_subdirectory(Support)
 add_subdirectory(TableGen)
 add_subdirectory(Target)
 add_subdirectory(TargetParser)
-add_subdirectory(Telemetry)
+if (LLVM_BUILD_TELEMETRY)
+  add_subdirectory(Telemetry)
+endif()
 add_subdirectory(Testing)
 add_subdirectory(TextAPI)
 add_subdirectory(Transforms)