diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 181c33b180..73644a8cb9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -87,6 +87,14 @@ prereq: $(target/stamp-prereq) tmp/.prereq_packages
 		exit 1; \
 	fi
 
+$(BIN_DIR)/profiles.json: FORCE
+	$(if $(CONFIG_JSON_OVERVIEW_IMAGE_INFO), \
+		WORK_DIR=$(BUILD_DIR)/json_info_files \
+			$(SCRIPT_DIR)/json_overview_image_info.py $@ \
+	)
+
+json_overview_image_info: $(BIN_DIR)/profiles.json
+
 checksum: FORCE
 	$(call sha256sums,$(BIN_DIR),$(CONFIG_BUILDBOT))
 
@@ -108,6 +116,7 @@ prepare: .config $(tools/stamp-compile) $(toolchain/stamp-compile)
 
 world: prepare $(target/stamp-compile) $(package/stamp-compile) $(package/stamp-install) $(target/stamp-install) FORCE
 	$(_SINGLE)$(SUBMAKE) -r package/index
+	$(_SINGLE)$(SUBMAKE) -r json_overview_image_info
 	$(_SINGLE)$(SUBMAKE) -r checksum
 
 .PHONY: clean dirclean prereq prepare world package/symlinks package/symlinks-install package/symlinks-clean
diff --git a/config/Config-build.in b/config/Config-build.in
index 9669fc86c7..e5d38578a2 100644
--- a/config/Config-build.in
+++ b/config/Config-build.in
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@
 
 menu "Global build settings"
 
-	config JSON_ADD_IMAGE_INFO
-		bool "Create JSON info files per build image"
+	config JSON_OVERVIEW_IMAGE_INFO
+		bool "Create JSON info file overview per target"
 		default BUILDBOT
 		help
-		  The JSON info files contain information about the device and
-		  build images, stored next to the firmware images.
+		  Create a JSON info file called profiles.json in the target
+		  directory containing machine readable list of built profiles
+		  and resulting images.
 
 	config ALL_NONSHARED
 		bool "Select all target specific packages by default"
diff --git a/include/image.mk b/include/image.mk
index 1e0177c439..15f4fe9d3b 100644
--- a/include/image.mk
+++ b/include/image.mk
@@ -501,8 +501,11 @@ endef
 
 define Device/Build/image
   GZ_SUFFIX := $(if $(filter %dtb %gz,$(2)),,$(if $(and $(findstring ext4,$(1)),$(CONFIG_TARGET_IMAGES_GZIP)),.gz))
-  $$(_TARGET): $(BIN_DIR)/$(call IMAGE_NAME,$(1),$(2))$$(GZ_SUFFIX)
+  $$(_TARGET): $(if $(CONFIG_JSON_OVERVIEW_IMAGE_INFO), \
+	  $(BUILD_DIR)/json_info_files/$(call IMAGE_NAME,$(1),$(2)).json, \
+	  $(BIN_DIR)/$(call IMAGE_NAME,$(1),$(2))$$(GZ_SUFFIX))
   $(eval $(call Device/Export,$(KDIR)/tmp/$(call IMAGE_NAME,$(1),$(2)),$(1)))
+
   ROOTFS/$(1)/$(3) := \
 	$(KDIR)/root.$(1)$$(strip \
 		$$(if $$(FS_OPTIONS/$(1)),+fs=$$(call param_mangle,$$(FS_OPTIONS/$(1)))) \
@@ -524,20 +527,21 @@ define Device/Build/image
 
   $(BIN_DIR)/$(call IMAGE_NAME,$(1),$(2)): $(KDIR)/tmp/$(call IMAGE_NAME,$(1),$(2))
 	cp $$^ $$@
-	$(if $(CONFIG_JSON_ADD_IMAGE_INFO), \
-		DEVICE_ID="$(DEVICE_NAME)" \
-		BIN_DIR="$(BIN_DIR)" \
-		IMAGE_NAME="$(IMAGE_NAME)" \
-		IMAGE_TYPE=$(word 1,$(subst ., ,$(2))) \
-		IMAGE_PREFIX="$(IMAGE_PREFIX)" \
-		DEVICE_TITLE="$(DEVICE_TITLE)" \
-		TARGET="$(BOARD)" \
-		SUBTARGET="$(SUBTARGET)" \
-		VERSION_NUMBER="$(VERSION_NUMBER)" \
-		VERSION_CODE="$(VERSION_CODE)" \
-		SUPPORTED_DEVICES="$(SUPPORTED_DEVICES)" \
-		$(TOPDIR)/scripts/json_add_image_info.py \
-	)
+
+  $(BUILD_DIR)/json_info_files/$(call IMAGE_NAME,$(1),$(2)).json: $(BIN_DIR)/$(call IMAGE_NAME,$(1),$(2))$$(GZ_SUFFIX)
+	@mkdir -p $$(shell dirname $$@)
+	DEVICE_ID="$(DEVICE_NAME)" \
+	BIN_DIR="$(BIN_DIR)" \
+	IMAGE_NAME="$(IMAGE_NAME)" \
+	IMAGE_TYPE=$(word 1,$(subst ., ,$(2))) \
+	IMAGE_PREFIX="$(IMAGE_PREFIX)" \
+	DEVICE_TITLE="$(DEVICE_TITLE)" \
+	TARGET="$(BOARD)" \
+	SUBTARGET="$(if $(SUBTARGET),$(SUBTARGET),generic)" \
+	VERSION_NUMBER="$(VERSION_NUMBER)" \
+	VERSION_CODE="$(VERSION_CODE)" \
+	SUPPORTED_DEVICES="$(SUPPORTED_DEVICES)" \
+	$(TOPDIR)/scripts/json_add_image_info.py $$@
 
 endef
 
@@ -556,8 +560,6 @@ define Device/Build/artifact
 endef
 
 define Device/Build
-  $(shell rm -f $(BIN_DIR)/$(IMG_PREFIX)-$(1).json)
-
   $(if $(CONFIG_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS),$(call Device/Build/initramfs,$(1)))
   $(call Device/Build/kernel,$(1))
 
@@ -626,6 +628,7 @@ define BuildImage
 
     image_prepare: compile
 		mkdir -p $(BIN_DIR) $(KDIR)/tmp
+		rm -rf $(BUILD_DIR)/json_info_files
 		$(call Image/Prepare)
 
     legacy-images-prepare-make: image_prepare
diff --git a/scripts/json_add_image_info.py b/scripts/json_add_image_info.py
index 4a90eb95cf..b4d2dd8d71 100755
--- a/scripts/json_add_image_info.py
+++ b/scripts/json_add_image_info.py
@@ -1,42 +1,50 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
-import json
-import os
+from os import getenv
+from pathlib import Path
+from sys import argv
 import hashlib
+import json
 
+if len(argv) != 2:
+    print("ERROR: JSON info script requires output arg")
+    exit(1)
 
-def e(variable, default=None):
-    return os.environ.get(variable, default)
+json_path = Path(argv[1])
+bin_dir = Path(getenv("BIN_DIR"))
+image_file = bin_dir / getenv("IMAGE_NAME")
 
-
-json_path = "{}{}{}.json".format(e("BIN_DIR"), os.sep, e("IMAGE_PREFIX"))
-
-with open(os.path.join(e("BIN_DIR"), e("IMAGE_NAME")), "rb") as image_file:
-    image_hash = hashlib.sha256(image_file.read()).hexdigest()
+if not image_file.is_file():
+    print("Skip JSON creation for non existing image ", image_file)
+    exit(0)
 
 
 def get_titles():
-    return [{"title": e("DEVICE_TITLE")}]
+    return [{"title": getenv("DEVICE_TITLE")}]
 
 
-if not os.path.exists(json_path):
-    device_info = {
-        "id": e("DEVICE_ID"),
-        "image_prefix": e("IMAGE_PREFIX"),
-        "images": [],
-        "metadata_version": 1,
-        "supported_devices": e("SUPPORTED_DEVICES").split(),
-        "target": "{}/{}".format(e("TARGET"), e("SUBTARGET", "generic")),
-        "titles": get_titles(),
-        "version_commit": e("VERSION_CODE"),
-        "version_number": e("VERSION_NUMBER"),
-    }
-else:
-    with open(json_path, "r") as json_file:
-        device_info = json.load(json_file)
+device_id = getenv("DEVICE_ID")
+image_hash = hashlib.sha256(image_file.read_bytes()).hexdigest()
 
-image_info = {"type": e("IMAGE_TYPE"), "name": e("IMAGE_NAME"), "sha256": image_hash}
-device_info["images"].append(image_info)
+image_info = {
+    "metadata_version": 1,
+    "target": "{}/{}".format(getenv("TARGET"), getenv("SUBTARGET")),
+    "version_code": getenv("VERSION_CODE"),
+    "version_number": getenv("VERSION_NUMBER"),
+    "profiles": {
+        device_id: {
+            "image_prefix": getenv("IMAGE_PREFIX"),
+            "images": [
+                {
+                    "type": getenv("IMAGE_TYPE"),
+                    "name": getenv("IMAGE_NAME"),
+                    "sha256": image_hash,
+                }
+            ],
+            "supported_devices": getenv("SUPPORTED_DEVICES").split(),
+            "titles": get_titles(),
+        }
+    },
+}
 
-with open(json_path, "w") as json_file:
-    json.dump(device_info, json_file, sort_keys=True, indent="  ")
+json_path.write_text(json.dumps(image_info, separators=(",", ":")))
diff --git a/scripts/json_overview_image_info.py b/scripts/json_overview_image_info.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..5ed829249b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/json_overview_image_info.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+from os import getenv
+from sys import argv
+
+if len(argv) != 2:
+    print("JSON info files script requires ouput file as argument")
+    exit(1)
+
+output_path = Path(argv[1])
+
+assert getenv("WORK_DIR"), "$WORK_DIR required"
+
+work_dir = Path(getenv("WORK_DIR"))
+
+assert work_dir.is_dir(), "$WORK_DIR not a directory"
+
+output = {}
+
+for json_file in work_dir.glob("*.json"):
+    image_info = json.loads(json_file.read_text())
+    if not output:
+        output.update(image_info)
+    else:
+        # get first (and only) profile in json file
+        device_id = next(iter(image_info["profiles"].keys()))
+        if device_id not in output["profiles"]:
+            output["profiles"].update(image_info["profiles"])
+        else:
+            output["profiles"][device_id]["images"].append(
+                image_info["profiles"][device_id]["images"][0]
+            )
+
+if output:
+    output_path.write_text(json.dumps(output, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":")))
+else:
+    print("JSON info file script could not find any JSON files for target")
diff --git a/target/imagebuilder/files/Makefile b/target/imagebuilder/files/Makefile
index 15b3d5c35c..835dd98ca5 100644
--- a/target/imagebuilder/files/Makefile
+++ b/target/imagebuilder/files/Makefile
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ _call_image: staging_dir/host/.prereq-build
 	$(MAKE) package_install
 	$(MAKE) -s prepare_rootfs
 	$(MAKE) -s build_image
+	$(MAKE) -s json_overview_image_info
 	$(MAKE) -s checksum
 
 _call_manifest: FORCE
@@ -163,12 +164,21 @@ prepare_rootfs: FORCE
 	$(CP) $(TARGET_DIR) $(TARGET_DIR_ORIG)
 	$(call prepare_rootfs,$(TARGET_DIR),$(USER_FILES),$(DISABLED_SERVICES))
 
+
 build_image: FORCE
 	@echo
 	@echo Building images...
 	$(NO_TRACE_MAKE) -C target/linux/$(BOARD)/image install TARGET_BUILD=1 IB=1 EXTRA_IMAGE_NAME="$(EXTRA_IMAGE_NAME)" \
 		$(if $(USER_PROFILE),PROFILE="$(USER_PROFILE)")
 
+$(BIN_DIR)/profiles.json: FORCE
+	$(if $(CONFIG_JSON_OVERVIEW_IMAGE_INFO), \
+		WORK_DIR=$(BUILD_DIR)/json_info_files \
+			$(SCRIPT_DIR)/json_overview_image_info.py $@ \
+	)
+
+json_overview_image_info: $(BIN_DIR)/profiles.json
+
 checksum: FORCE
 	@echo
 	@echo Calculating checksums...