Abstract: An edge computer or thin client computing device is connected, via a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) session data channel, to a host/server computing device on which is hosted at least one of an application or a desktop for the edge computer/thin client. A collector software component executing on the edge computer/thin client establishes a sub-channel (virtual channel) connection to a companion receiver software component executing on the host/server device. The collector component collects and transmits telemetry data about the edge computer/thin client over the now-established virtual channel to the receiver component, which processes and stores the data in a database associated with a workspace analytics system. The collector component oversamples relative to a native sampling rate of the workspace analytics system wherein the receiver component stores an average of the received data stream in the database at a time synchronized with the native timing of the workspace analytics system.