> Fun fact: Tailscale have an almost-assuredly-accurate count of Headscale users due to how few people disable the Tailscale client's telemetry which by default sends them real-time events about everything you do on a Headscale network. See KB1011: https://tailscale.com/kb/1011/log-mesh-traffic
That is not true. We actually instruct all the clients to send no logs - since at least three years:
We have definitely improved a lot the stability and test coverage in the last year. Really, really a lot. Still a bit to go, but overall there have been many changes :)
But indeed we are not meant to replace the full frictionless experience of Tailscale SaaS.
> Fun fact: Tailscale have an almost-assuredly-accurate count of Headscale users due to how few people disable the Tailscale client's telemetry which by default sends them real-time events about everything you do on a Headscale network. See KB1011: https://tailscale.com/kb/1011/log-mesh-traffic
That is not true. We actually instruct all the clients to send no logs - since at least three years:
https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/blame/main/hscontrol/t....
And also in the config example:
https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/blob/main/config-examp...
That said, I would have loved to know how many nodes use Headscale... :)