OpenShell Telemetry
August 13, 2026 · View on GitHub
Metrics below cover this two-week window, compared with the prior period (June 24 – July 8, 2026). Numbers are aggregate counts only — see the Telemetry section of the main README for what's collected and how to opt out.
| Metric | This period | Prior period | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandboxes created | 556,370 | 269,220 | +106.7% |
| Sandboxes deleted | 421,946 | 247,727 | +70.3% |
| Sandbox creation failures | 100,246 | 5,345 | +1,775.5% |
| Actions denied | 3,505,237 | 2,323,468 | +50.9% |
| Network activity events | 34,946,280 | 29,935,431 | +16.7% |
The creation failure rate was ~18% this period (100,246 failures against 556,370 creates), up from ~2% in the prior period. Docker was the most-used driver at 332,238, ahead of Kubernetes (172,834).
Sandbox drivers. Docker leads at 332,238, then Kubernetes (172,834) and Podman (47,374). The long tail: VM (3,198), unknown (399), and MXC (327).
xychart-beta
title "Sandboxes Created by Driver (Jul 13 – Jul 26)"
x-axis ["docker", "kubernetes", "podman", "vm", "unknown", "mxc"]
y-axis "Sandboxes created" 0 --> 350000
bar [332238, 172834, 47374, 3198, 399, 327]
Where sandboxes are created. The United States leads by a wide margin, followed by Israel, Japan, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Germany, Thailand, and Sweden.
Providers. custom profiles lead at 42,758, then openai (33,074), claude (2,261), nvidia (1,744), github (784), anthropic (660), opencode (624), gitlab (284), codex (38), and copilot (18).
xychart-beta
title "Top Provider Profiles (Jul 13 – Jul 26)"
x-axis ["custom", "openai", "claude", "nvidia", "other"]
y-axis "Profiles created" 0 --> 50000
bar [42758, 33074, 2261, 1744, 2414]
Policy. Roughly 70% of policy decisions were approved this period (~8.7k approved vs ~3.7k rejected). Of denied sandbox connections, ~98% fell under the "Connect Policy" deny group.
pie showData
title Policy Decisions — Jul 13 – Jul 26 (approx.)
"Approved" : 8700
"Rejected" : 3700