

Provides an overview of the client count dashboard and how to use it Provides a conceptual overview of Vault client Refer to the table below for documentation resources. »Q: Where can I learn more about Vault clients? Note: For KMIP, a different metric is used to compute clients, as described in the Vault Usage Metrics documentation under the KMIP Client metrics section. To learn more, refer to the documentation on What is a Client?. The client metric is a combination of active identity entities and active non-entity tokens. When a client authenticates to a cluster, those clients have unlimited access to that cluster for the remainder of the billing period. Each client is counted just once within a billing period, regardless of how many times it's been active. For billing and consumption, only unique and active clients during the billing period (monthly in the case of HCP and annual in the case of self-managed Vault) count towards totals.

IMPACT CLIENT 1.10 UPGRADE
Q: If I upgrade from Vault 1.8 to 1.9+, how will the changes to non-entity token logic and local auth mount made in Vault 1.9 affect the clients created prior to the upgrade?.Q: When I upgrade to a version of Vault that's greater than Vault 1.6, will the clients be available for the entire history of the billing period, or only available after the upgrade occurred during the billing period?.Q: Why do the Vault auditor tool and the usage metrics UI show me different results for the total number of clients?.Q: How can I compute KMIP clients for Vault?.Q: Why do we have two different tools (auditor tool and UI/API) to compute clients? Do we plan to deprecate one in the future?.Q: For customers using newer versions than Vault 1.6, what's the best way to compute clients?.Q: For customers using versions of Vault older than Vault 1.6, what’s the best way to compute clients.Q: Which Vault version reflects the most accurate client counts?.Q: What is the difference between a direct entity (entity client) and a non-entity token (non-entity client)?.Q: Where can I learn more about Vault clients?.This FAQ section contains frequently asked questions about the client count feature. While you can still use the tool, there are no plans to release new versions of the tool.

Note 2: In March 2022, we deprecated the Vault auditor tool.
