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I mean, the 127.0.0.1 makes sense, but It could be it being sent to that port from VS code… why does my local ollama have any kind of telemetry? is it for network users or if I serve to outside my local machine, so telemetry being sent to me? I think it’s disabled anyway.
Yep, you can use it to serve models over a network, it essentially creates an api withe the same structure as openai’s ones then serves that. By default just to your machine for other programs to use, but I serve mine to my tailnet so I can use my desktop on my laptop or phone.
… Why the fuck is there telemetry on my local AI?? I tried Qwen3.5:2b
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slot launch_slot_: id 0 | task 17 | processing task, is_child = 0 slot operator(): id 0 | task 17 | new prompt, n_ctx_slot = 8192, n_keep = 4, task.n_tokens = 439 slot operator(): id 0 | task 17 | cached n_tokens = 258, memory_seq_rm [258, end) slot init_sampler: id 0 | task 17 | init sampler, took 0.15 ms, tokens: text = 439, total = 439 [GIN] 2026/10/11 - 16:08:03 | 200 | 324.081µs | 127.0.0.1 | GET "/api/ps" [GIN] 2026/10/11 - 16:08:03 | 200 | 71.38µs | 127.0.0.1 | GET "/api/ps" [GIN] 2026/10/11 - 16:08:03 | 200 | 164.616µs | 127.0.0.1 | GET "/api/ps" [GIN] 2026/10/11 - 16:08:03 | 200 | 96.902µs | 127.0.0.1 | GET "/api/ps" [GIN] 2026/10/11 - 16:08:04 | 200 | 64.533µs | 127.0.0.1 | GET "/api/ps" time=2026-10-11T16:08:04.525-03:00 level=WARN source=types.go:1035 msg="invalid option provided" option=_capturingTokenCorrelationId time=2026-10-11T16:08:04.530-03:00 level=WARN source=types.go:1035 msg="invalid option provided" option=_otelTraceContext time=2026-10-11T16:08:04.530-03:00 level=WARN source=types.go:1035 msg="invalid option provided" option=_telemetryTurn [GIN] 2026/10/11 - 16:08:04 | 200 | 105.201776ms | 127.0.0.1 | GET "/api/ps" time=2026-10-11T16:08:04.801-03:00 level=INFO source=sched.go:1338 msg="updated VRAM based on existing loaded models" gpu=0 library=Vulkan total="2.2 GiB" available="2.2 GiB"Those apis are on 127.0.0.1, that’s a shorthand for “this local computer”. This is just different bits of the program communicating with each other.
You can see that its not going over the internet as the responses are coming back in microseconds.
I mean, the 127.0.0.1 makes sense, but It could be it being sent to that port from VS code… why does my local ollama have any kind of telemetry? is it for network users or if I serve to outside my local machine, so telemetry being sent to me? I think it’s disabled anyway.
Yep, you can use it to serve models over a network, it essentially creates an api withe the same structure as openai’s ones then serves that. By default just to your machine for other programs to use, but I serve mine to my tailnet so I can use my desktop on my laptop or phone.