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Important note: yes, this PR is AI-assisted, but I tried to make it as concise and targeted as possible. This solves an important issue that results in downtime on busy instances like mine one, and I'm not experienced enough with PHP to make these changes myself. Glad to hear any feedback and fix any issues

Currently running this build on my instance with over 100 users, no issues so far

Drive the server console from the websocket instead of polling

Why

An open console page costs ~2 Livewire round trips per second, per tab, for as long as it stays open. On a production host, nine open console tabs produced a sustained ~10.6 req/s, saturating a php-fpm core to more than 100% CPU and holding MySQL at a 14–24% baseline. Nothing was failing — 8111 × HTTP 200 and zero 429s over ten minutes. The cost is just linear in open consoles, so the panel gets slower the more operators use it.

The data was already in the browser. Every Wings stats frame was posted back to PHP purely so PHP could cache it, and four widgets then polled once a second to read it back out:

wings --ws--> browser --HTTP POST--> php --> cache --HTTP poll--> php --> browser

What

The stats frame now feeds the widgets directly in the browser, and nothing on the page polls.

  • Charts are updated by dispatching Filament's existing updateChartData event client-side. ChartWidget declares no server-side listener for it, and Livewire only turns a browser event into a request for declared listeners — so this costs no round trip. The chart classes are otherwise untouched.
  • Overview values became spans updated from the same frame. Stat::$value already accepts Htmlable, so Stat and the stat blade are unchanged.
  • All four widgets set $pollingInterval = null. Explicitly null, not deleted — CanPoll defaults it to '5s'.
  • The store-stats listener and the servers.{id}.* stats cache entries are removed; nothing reads or writes them any more.

An idle console page now makes no requests to the panel.

Also fixes

storeStats() retained its buffer with array_slice($cachedStats, -120) on an array keyed by integer timestamp. array_slice reindexes integer keys, so every key became an array offset and the charts labelled their points with times just after the Unix epoch. The same buffer kept 120 samples under a one-minute TTL, so most of what it stored could never be read back.

Worth knowing

  • Charts start empty and fill over ~30s instead of backfilling from cache. Given the two bugs above, that backfill was at most 60s deep and carried 1970 timestamps.
  • Chart x-axis labels now use the browser's timezone rather than the panel timezone.
  • Out-of-tree widgets registered via Console::registerCustomWidgets() that read servers.{id}.cpu_absolute, memory_bytes, disk_bytes, network or uptime will find them no longer written. The servers.{uuid}.status and servers.{uuid}.resources keys are untouched.

Tests

  • tests/Unit/Filament/ServerConsoleWidgetsTest.php — all four widgets resolve $pollingInterval to null, and ServerConsole declares no store-stats listener. Reflection only, so it sits in the unit suite CI runs by path.
  • tests/Filament/ServerConsoleChartDispatchTest.php — the blade's dispatch targets match app('livewire.finder')->normalizeName(). Filament registers panel components under their FQCN, so a hand-written component name would silently deliver to nothing.

Pint and PHPStan clean; tests/Unit 191 passed, tests/Integration 441 passed. Also run on the production host the measurements came from, against real Wings daemons, before submitting.

An open server console page made roughly two Livewire round trips per second,
per tab, indefinitely. On one production host nine open consoles produced a
sustained ~10.6 req/s, saturating a php-fpm worker pool and holding MySQL at a
14-24% baseline. The cost is linear in the number of open consoles and
independent of fleet size, so the panel got slower the more operators used it.

Everything the page displays already reaches the browser over the Wings
websocket. The panel was doing this:

  wings --ws--> browser --POST--> php --> cache --poll--> php --> browser

The browser handed each `stats` frame back to the panel via a `store-stats`
Livewire call purely so PHP could cache it, and ServerOverview plus the three
chart widgets each polled once a second to read it back out.

The stats frame now feeds the widgets directly in the browser. Chart data is
pushed into the Alpine component Filament already exposes, via a client-side
Livewire event; because ChartWidget declares no server-side listener for
`updateChartData`, that dispatch costs no request. The overview's live values
became spans updated from the same frame. All four widgets set
$pollingInterval to null, and the store-stats listener and the now-unread
`servers.{id}.*` cache entries are gone.

An idle console page now makes no requests to the panel at all.

Two existing bugs go with it. storeStats() sliced its sample buffer with
array_slice(), which reindexes integer keys, so every timestamp key became an
array offset and the charts labelled their points with times just after the
Unix epoch. The same buffer retained 120 samples under a one-minute TTL, so at
one sample per second most of what it stored could never be read back.

Note for anyone with out-of-tree console widgets registered through
Console::registerCustomWidgets(): the `servers.{id}.cpu_absolute`,
`memory_bytes`, `disk_bytes`, `network` and `uptime` cache keys are no longer
written. The separate `servers.{uuid}.status` and `servers.{uuid}.resources`
keys are untouched.
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The server console moves statistic storage and chart generation from PHP cache polling to the browser. ServerStats processes WebSocket samples, updates widget data, and fills live statistic placeholders.

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Server statistics flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Client-side statistics API
resources/js/console.js
Adds UUID-keyed sample persistence, localized uptime formatting, timezone-aware labels, and CPU, memory, and network chart datasets.
Console event bridge
resources/views/filament/components/server-console.blade.php, app/Filament/Server/Widgets/ServerConsole.php, tests/Filament/ServerConsoleChartDispatchTest.php
Configures ServerStats, processes WebSocket events, retries closed connections, dispatches chart updates to normalized Livewire component names, and removes the store-stats listener path.
Widget rendering and validation
app/Filament/Server/Widgets/ServerOverview.php, app/Filament/Server/Widgets/ServerCpuChart.php, app/Filament/Server/Widgets/ServerMemoryChart.php, app/Filament/Server/Widgets/ServerNetworkChart.php, tests/Unit/Filament/ServerConsoleWidgetsTest.php
Disables widget polling and replaces cached values with client-populated placeholders or empty chart datasets. Tests verify polling, listener removal, and chart dispatch targets.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant WebSocket
  participant ServerStats
  participant ServerConsole
  participant LivewireWidgets
  WebSocket->>ServerConsole: send status or statistics event
  ServerConsole->>ServerStats: push sample or setState
  ServerStats-->>ServerConsole: return chart data and status values
  ServerConsole->>LivewireWidgets: dispatch updateChartData
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