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OpenShell Telemetry — July 27 – August 10, 2026
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