diff --git a/backend/app/api/main.go b/backend/app/api/main.go
index 0c940812..4dfd04dc 100644
--- a/backend/app/api/main.go
+++ b/backend/app/api/main.go
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/rs/zerolog"
 	"github.com/rs/zerolog/log"
 	"github.com/rs/zerolog/pkgerrors"
-	_ "github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v4/host"
 	"github.com/sysadminsmedia/homebox/backend/internal/core/currencies"
 	"github.com/sysadminsmedia/homebox/backend/internal/core/services"
 	"github.com/sysadminsmedia/homebox/backend/internal/core/services/reporting/eventbus"
@@ -101,17 +100,18 @@ func run(cfg *config.Config) error {
 		}
 		bodyReader := bytes.NewReader(jsonBody)
 		req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://a.sysadmins.zone/api/event", bodyReader)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Error().Err(err).Msg("failed to create analytics request")
+		}
 		req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
-		req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.121 Safari/537.36 OPR/71.0.3770.284")
+		req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Homebox/"+version+"/"+build()+" (https://homebox.software)")
 		client := &http.Client{
 			Timeout: 10 * time.Second,
 		}
-		res, err := client.Do(req)
+		_, err = client.Do(req)
 		if err != nil {
-			return err
+			log.Error().Err(err).Msg("failed to send analytics request")
 		}
-		log.Info().Msgf("Analytics Response: %v", res)
-		log.Info().Msgf("Analytics Response: %v", json.NewEncoder(os.Stdout).Encode(analytics))
 	}
 
 	// =========================================================================
diff --git a/backend/internal/sys/config/conf.go b/backend/internal/sys/config/conf.go
index e3c4b830..85d0ea3e 100644
--- a/backend/internal/sys/config/conf.go
+++ b/backend/internal/sys/config/conf.go
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ type Options struct {
 	AllowRegistration    bool   `yaml:"disable_registration"    conf:"default:true"`
 	AutoIncrementAssetID bool   `yaml:"auto_increment_asset_id" conf:"default:true"`
 	CurrencyConfig       string `yaml:"currencies"`
-	AllowAnalytics       bool   `yaml:"allow_analytics"         conf:"default:true"`
+	AllowAnalytics       bool   `yaml:"allow_analytics"         conf:"default:false"`
 }
 
 type DebugConf struct {