Hi,
On one side I love the idea of being able to more properly assess where
and how CloudStack is being used,
on the other hand receiving, maintaining and securing this data seems
like a small nightmare.
Also, it's hard for me to imagine why someone running CloudStack in
production would opt to share this information.
Daan Hoogland wrote:
+1 to this (old) idea sounds, it compelling and as a cloudstacker I
want this info.My only insecurity is on how to process the data once
in and who has access. What data we gather is something we can tune,
but it would be good to ask some AI input on that and start from
there.
Also a collector app would be needed (I propose Claude and I write it
in rust ;) which creates a data pool.
As for access to highly anonymised, denormalised, aggregated data. I
see not much harm in publishing it on a publicly accessible dashboard.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 9:13 AM Wido den Hollander via dev
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I just opened a PR [0] for a "Call Home" functionality of CloudStack. If
enabled by the user the management server will send a report every 7
days (default, configurable) back to the project.
This report is a anonymized JSON file which contains counts of the
hypervisor type, host/cluster types, storage pool type/provider/scope,
zone network and service providers, instance states/types, disk offering
characteristics, and the version upgrade history.
Currently the project has almost no insights into how CloudStack is
being used, we can only gather this information by sending out surveys.
The discussion can be: Do we want this as a project? Who will have
access to the submitted reports? Any enhancement proposals? Other feedback?
Wido
[0]: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/13985
