Spurious Outgoing Grafana traffic when grafana starts

  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    grafana:11.2.0

  • What are you trying to achieve?
    I am running grafana in kubernetes, and preparing to run in an airgapped location. I want to prevent as much spurious communication attempts as possible. Although looks like grafana is still reaching home even though I have turned off reporting, check for updates, and check for plugin updates.

  • How are you trying to achieve it?

  • What happened?
    I get spurious communication going to 34.120.177.193.https:

  • What did you expect to happen?
    The above to not happen

  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?
    /etc/grafana/grafana.ini

[analytics]
check_for_plugin_updates = false
check_for_updates = false
reporting_enabled = false
[date_formats]
default_timezone = UTC
[server]
domain = <my local servers domain>
root_url = %(protocol)s://%(domain)s:%(http_port)s/grafana/
serve_from_sub_path = true

Grafana downloads keys for plugin/license verification as well:

Configure public_key_* properly. Of course there can be more attempts.