Op 27-08-2026 om 09:52 schreef Daan Hoogland:
+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.
Thank you for the feedback! So I want to keep the data as anonymous as
possible, only counts of types. No hostnames, no references.
And yes, this is old code I never finished years ago and using Claude I
gave it some polishing and made a PR [0] now.
Also a collector app would be needed (I propose Claude and I write it
in rust ;) which creates a data pool.
It's the already, a Python application which runs as WSGI and stores all
the incoming reports as JSON files. From there we can process them.
As for access to highly anonymised, denormalised, aggregated data. I
see not much harm in publishing it on a publicly accessible dashboard.
Me neither, it would be super transparant. We would then need to
motivate people to turn this setting on.
We would also need to request the ASF/Infra to create a subdomain for us
under the cloudstack.org domain name.
Wido
[0]: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/13985
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
