Redacted Vast.ai Support Manifest

Overview

A useful bundle binds exact resource IDs, CLI version, timestamps, states, and redacted errors. It does not archive the entire environment, shell history, account profile, or secret-bearing generated curl commands.

Prerequisites

• Incident window, affected instance/endpoint/workergroup IDs, and symptom
• Evidence classification, retention period, support case owner, and approved destination
• Redaction rules for API keys, URLs, emails, storage credentials, model inputs, and customer data

Instructions

Step 1: Freeze the collection plan

List each command, field, time range, and justification before reading data. Exclude environment dumps and home-directory archives.

Step 2: Collect control-plane facts