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Metrics below cover this two-week window, compared with the prior period (July 13 – July 26, 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	556,389	556,370	+0.0%
Sandboxes deleted	457,086	421,946	+8.3%
Sandbox creation failures	66,511	100,246	-33.7%
Actions denied	4,220,436	3,505,237	+20.4%
Network activity events	27,077,441	34,946,280	-22.5%

The creation failure rate was ~12% this period (66,511 failures against 556,389 creates), down from ~18% in the prior period. Kubernetes (245,144) overtook Docker (239,444) as the most-used sandbox driver.

Sandbox drivers. Kubernetes leads at 245,144, just ahead of Docker (239,444), with Podman third at 58,657. The long tail: unknown (6,386), VM (6,267), MXC (461), apple-container (23), and LXD (7).

xychart-beta
    title "Sandboxes Created by Driver (Jul 27 – Aug 10)"
    x-axis ["kubernetes", "docker", "podman", "unknown", "vm", "mxc"]
    y-axis "Sandboxes created" 0 --> 260000
    bar [245144, 239444, 58657, 6386, 6267, 461]

Where sandboxes are created. The United States again leads by a wide margin, followed by India, Germany, China, Poland, Japan, the United Kingdom, Israel, Hong Kong, and Denmark.

Providers. custom profiles lead (~61k), then openai (~51k), with claude, nvidia, github, anthropic, gitlab, opencode, codex, and copilot trailing.

xychart-beta
    title "Top Provider Profiles (Jul 27 – Aug 10, approx.)"
    x-axis ["custom", "openai", "claude", "nvidia", "other"]
    y-axis "Profiles created" 0 --> 65000
    bar [61000, 51000, 3000, 2000, 4000]

Policy. Roughly 67% of policy decisions were approved this period (~16.5k approved vs ~8.2k rejected). Of denied sandbox connections, ~93% fell under the "Connect Policy" deny group, with "Bypass" denials near zero.

pie showData
    title Policy Decisions — Jul 27 – Aug 10 (approx.)
    "Approved" : 16500
    "Rejected" : 8200