Cannot see client count in Hashicorp vault Community Edition 1.20.4

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i want to get idea of active clients into my Vault cluster for billing estimation. i am using vault community edition self hosted. When i run vault read sys/internal/counters/activity/ i got below
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Key             Value

---

by_namespace    [ ]
end_time        2025-12-31T23:59:59Z
months          [ ]
start_time      0001-01-01T00:00:00Z
total           map\[acme_clients:0 clients:0 entity_clients:0 non_entity_clients:0 secret_syncs:0\]

why i am getting clients = 0 ? even though cluster is active and many entities and being logged in

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You will need to enable usage data collection since it is disabled by default on Vault Community Edition.

Vault Enterprise and HCP Vault Dedicated have usage data collection automatically enabled, but not the Community Edition.

With the CLI:

vault write sys/internal/counters/config enabled=enable retention_months=24
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