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# Data sent to Canonical servers

Livepatch on-prem deployments periodically send requests to servers hosted by Canonical to check for the availability of new livepatches. These requests contain a unique ID of the deployment and the number of machines served by the deployment.

* Unique ID of the deployment
* Number of machines served by the deployment

Additional reporting can be enabled by running

```
juju config livepatch sync_send_machine_reports=true
```

Changing this config setting will allow livepatch on-prem to send reports about the exact state of each machine served by the deployment.

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