feat(dashboard): stop the activity log refreshing itself - #569
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On a busy gateway the activity page reloaded its table every few seconds, so rows reordered under an operator faster than they could be inspected. Two things drove it: a settle-detector that refetched the log whenever a tracked request left the in-flight list, and `refetchOnWindowFocus` on the log and its count. The log is now a snapshot. It loads on mount and reloads when asked, by the refresh button or by a change of filters, window, or page. Requests in flight move out of the table and into a count beside the refresh control, which opens the live list. The 2s poll still runs, but it touches one number well away from the rows, and the list an operator opens stays open when the last request lands rather than vanishing at the moment they were waiting for. This drops the synthetic in-flight rows, their filter-suppression rules, and the throttled settle-refetch that existed only to make those rows resolve in place. A frozen page still has to say it has fallen behind, so a second, polled `COUNT(*)` sizes an "N new, load" badge against the pinned count. It runs only on the first page of a window that is still open, the one place where loading newer rows brings them into view. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughChangesActivity snapshot and live controls
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: 🔵 Low · up to The activity page can incorrectly continue showing an “N new · load” badge after an operator moves past the first page, where that action is not applicable. The change is otherwise mergeable, but the badge condition should be corrected or explicitly accepted before merge. Possibly related PRs
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1562-1589: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider fake timers here so this test does not spend real seconds.
This is the only test in the new block that runs on real timers, and it pays for it: the in-flight query polls every 2s and
useInFlightRequestsretries up to three times with backoff, so thewaitForneeds a 20s budget and the test declares a 30s timeout. Every run of the suite pays that wall-clock cost even when the assertion passes immediately.The neighbouring tests already show the pattern that avoids this (
vi.useFakeTimers({ shouldAdvanceTime: true })plusawait vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(...)). Driving the poll and the retry backoff forward withadvanceTimersByTimeAsyncwould let this assert the same behavior in milliseconds, and the explicit 20s/30s budgets could then go away.The behavior under test is a good one to cover, so this is purely about the clock it runs on.
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In `@web/src/pages/ActivityPage.tsx`:
- Around line 1226-1232: Gate the newRows calculation on newRowsRelevant, so it
evaluates to zero whenever the live-count query is not relevant to the current
page. Update the badge flow using newRows and preserve the existing
count-difference and nonnegative clamping behavior when newRowsRelevant is true.
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In `@web/src/pages/ActivityPage.test.tsx`:
- Around line 1562-1589: Update the “drops the live control when the in-flight
poll starts failing” test to use vi.useFakeTimers({ shouldAdvanceTime: true })
and drive the polling/retry delays with await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(...).
Remove the real-time 20-second waitFor budget and 30-second test timeout while
preserving the existing assertions and cleanup of fake timers.
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`page` is not part of the live count's query key, so disabling the query past page 1 stopped it refetching but still handed back the payload it had cached on page 0. The badge came along, offering rows that pressing it cannot bring into view: newer rows land at the top of the first page, so the refresh it triggers reloads the page you are on and changes nothing. Gate the derived count on the same condition as the poll, and cover it with a test that pages forward from a populated cache rather than mounting directly on page 2, which is why the existing suppression test missed this. Also re-tense a comment in DataTable that asserted in the present tense that the activity page rebuilds its rows every two seconds, and drop two justifications of my own that do not hold: window re-anchoring changes the filter key and so cannot strand a stale count, and focus refetching was already off app-wide in `provider.tsx`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Two gaps the freeze opened up. The paginator stranded rows. The row total is a property of the filters, not of the page, so it is not in the count's query key and a frozen page carried whichever value it loaded with. `TablePagination` derives `isLast` from the total whenever it has one, so once traffic grew the log the operator hit a wall short of the real end, with the oldest rows sitting past it and no way to reach them but a manual refresh. This was latent on main, where the settle-refetch re-read the count on any traffic and hid it; nothing did after the freeze. Paging now re-reads the count, which is a deliberate act, so the total keeps describing a set the operator can navigate without putting a self-moving number under a table that holds still. A failing row count went unsaid. `useLiveUsageCount` does not retry and its error is deliberately not a page-level alarm, so the "N new" badge simply never appeared, which reads as "nothing has landed". Beside a table that no longer moves by itself, that made a flooded gateway look identical to an idle one. The strip now says "Newer rows unknown" instead of falling silent. Both are covered by tests that fail without the fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Description
On a busy gateway the activity table reloaded every few seconds, so rows reordered under an operator faster than they could be inspected. The cause was a settle-detector that refetched
/v1/usageand itsCOUNT(*)whenever a tracked request left the in-flight list. On a gateway with continuous traffic that throttle was always saturated, so the table reshuffled every 10 seconds indefinitely.The log is now a snapshot: it loads on mount and reloads when asked, by the refresh button or by a change of filters, window, or page.
Requests in flight move out of the table and into a count beside the refresh control, which opens the live list. The 2s poll still runs, but it touches one number well away from the rows. This drops the synthetic in-flight rows, their filter-suppression rules, and the throttled settle-refetch that existed only to make those rows resolve in place. Because the endpoint takes no filters, the count is now reported gateway-wide and the list says so, replacing the old client-side filtering of live rows. A list an operator has opened stays open when the last request lands, reading "0 in flight", rather than vanishing at the moment they were waiting for.
A frozen page still has to say it has fallen behind, so a second, polled
COUNT(*)sizes an "N new, load" badge against the pinned count. It runs only on the first page of a window that is still open, the one place where loading newer rows brings them into view.Trade made: a request no longer resolves in place from live row into settled row. It leaves the list when it lands and joins the log at the next refresh.
Known gap, not addressed here:
useUsageCount's key does not includepage, so once traffic lands the pinned total drifts from the rows you page into. This predates the PR, but the settle-refetch used to mask it and now nothing does. Worth a follow-up decision: refetch the count on a page change, or let the paginator read the live count.PR Type
Relevant issues
Related: #427 (closed) described the Activity page working as a monitor but not as a browser; this addresses the refresh half of that.
Checklist
tests/unit,tests/integration).make lint,make typecheck,make test).uv run python scripts/generate_openapi.py).Notes on the two above: this is a dashboard-only change, so the checks run were the
web/ones (npm --prefix web run typecheck,npm --prefix web test,npm --prefix web run build), all clean, 585 tests across 40 files. No Python, route, or schema changed, so there is no OpenAPI or Postman artifact to regenerate.docs/dashboard.mdis updated in the same change, since the bundled guide ships with the dashboard it documents.AI Usage
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The design was chosen by @njbrake from three options put to him (keep the live rows pinned, freeze the whole page as a stamped snapshot, or move the live view behind a count), along with the decision to add the staleness badge and to keep an opened list open at zero. The code and prose are the model's; the reasoning and the calls are his.
The PR was then reviewed by a separate agent with no part in writing it, which found the "N new" badge leaking onto later pages (fixed in 9e2a373, with a regression test) and corrected a claim in an earlier draft of this description about
refetchOnWindowFocus, which is already off app-wide inprovider.tsxand was never a second cause. CodeRabbit independently flagged the same badge bug.