I posted this over at https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/navidrome, but I thought I’d post it here, maybe someone has had experience with this.
I’ve been noticing demo.navidrome.org showing up in my firewall:
pFsense:
As with anything entering or exiting my network, I am cautious and curious why my instance of Navidrome has the need to contact demo.navidrome.org.
I am running Navidrome as a Docker Instance. I have combed my compose file and can find nothing in that itself that would trigger Navidrome to ‘call home’.
Is this for stats, or other? As of right now, I have demo.navidrome.org blocked until I’ve gathered some information.
BTW, sweet piece of opensource software. I tip my hat to the dev team(s).
That’s interesting. I checked my logs and I only see a few hits for insights.navidrome.org but nothing for demo.navidrome.org. I’m on version 0.59.0 so I’m a little behind.
EDIT: Here’s some information about what data they collect and how to opt-out: https://navidrome.org/docs/usage/admin/insights/#what-will-be-collected
Yeah, I saw that, and maybe they’re using demo.navidrome.org as the collection point. However, I do not see insights.navidrome.org in my firewall. I don’t think it’s something nefarious, I just wanted to know…it’s a curse.
It’s because of this:
$ dig +short insights.navidrome.org 209.141.42.198 $ dig -x 209.141.42.198 ; <<>> DiG 9.20.11-4-Debian <<>> -x 209.141.42.198 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 12665 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;198.42.141.209.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ;; ANSWER SECTION: 198.42.141.209.in-addr.arpa. 30 IN PTR demo.navidrome.org. ;; Query time: 208 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1) (UDP) ;; WHEN: Sun Mar 08 17:13:34 CET 2026 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 77In practice, demo and insights are on the same IP, whose reverse points to demo
Ahah! Ok that makes sense. Thank you so much for clearing that up. I guess I can now unblock demo.navidrome.org.