- Add dedicated heartbeat transmission every 5 seconds independent of metric collection
- Fix host offline detection by clearing metrics for disconnected hosts
- Move exclude_email_metrics to NotificationConfig for better organization
- Add cleanup_offline_hosts method to remove stale metrics after heartbeat timeout
- Ensure offline hosts show proper status icons and visual indicators
Version 0.1.63
- Add independent heartbeat checking timer (1 second interval) separate from metric reception
- Move get_connected_hosts() call outside metric receive condition to run periodically
- Remove duplicate update_hosts() call from metric processing to avoid redundancy
- Ensure offline host detection works even when no new metrics are received
- Fix issue where hosts going offline were never detected due to conditional heartbeat check
- Heartbeat timeouts now properly detected within configured timeout + 1 second
- Bump version to 0.1.62
- Change receive_metrics() from blocking to DONTWAIT to prevent main loop freezing
- Eliminate 1-second ZMQ socket timeout that was blocking UI after Tab key press
- Main loop now continues immediately after immediate render instead of waiting
- Maintain heartbeat-based host detection while fixing visual responsiveness
- Fix blocking operation introduced when implementing heartbeat timeout mechanism
- Tab navigation now truly immediate without any network operation delays
- Bump version to 0.1.61
- Add cached localhost field to TuiApp struct to avoid repeated gethostname() system calls
- Initialize localhost once in constructor instead of calling gethostname() on every navigation
- Replace gethostname() calls in update_hosts() and navigate_host() with cached value
- Eliminate expensive system call bottleneck causing Tab key responsiveness issues
- Reduce Tab navigation from 2+ system calls to zero system calls (memory access only)
- Fix performance regression introduced by immediate UI refresh implementation
- Bump version to 0.1.60
- Add immediate terminal.draw() call after input handling in main loop
- Eliminate delay between Tab key press and visual host switching
- Provide instant visual feedback for all navigation inputs
- Maintain existing metric update render cycle without duplication
- Fix UI update timing issue where changes only appeared on metric intervals
- Bump version to 0.1.59
- Replace 6 separate filter operations with single-pass metric categorization in update_metrics
- Reduce CPU overhead from 6x to 1x work per metric update cycle
- Fix Tab key sluggishness caused by competing expensive filtering operations
- Maintain exact same functionality with significantly better performance
- Improve UI responsiveness for host switching and navigation
- Bump version to 0.1.58
- Add agent_heartbeat metric to agent transmission for reliable host detection
- Update dashboard to track heartbeat timestamps per host instead of general metrics
- Add configurable heartbeat_timeout_seconds to dashboard ZMQ config (default 10s)
- Remove unused timeout_ms from agent config and revert to non-blocking command reception
- Remove unused heartbeat_interval_ms from agent configuration
- Host disconnect detection now uses dedicated heartbeat metrics for improved reliability
- Bump version to 0.1.57
- Add exclude_email_metrics field to AgentConfig for filtering email notifications
- Metrics matching excluded names skip notification processing but still appear in dashboard
- Optional field with serde(default) for backward compatibility
- Bump version to 0.1.56
- Add WakeOnLAN support for offline hosts using 'w' key
- Configure MAC addresses for all infrastructure hosts
- Implement Status::Offline for disconnected hosts
- Exclude offline hosts from status aggregation to prevent false alerts
- Update versions to 0.1.55
- Add Status::Offline enum variant for disconnected hosts
- All configured hosts now always visible showing offline status when disconnected
- Add WakeOnLAN support using wake-on-lan Rust crate
- Implement w key binding to wake offline hosts with MAC addresses
- Simplify configuration to single [hosts] section with MAC addresses only
- Change critical status icon from ◯ to ! for better visibility
- Add proper MAC address parsing and error handling
- Silent WakeOnLAN operation with logging for success/failure
Configuration format:
[hosts]
hostname = { mac_address = "AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF" }
- Change J/L log commands from popups to split windows for scrolling support
- Change rebuild command from popup to split window with consistent 30% height
- Add auto-close behavior with bash -c "command; exit" wrapper for logs
- Add "press any key to close" prompt with visual separators for rebuild
- Enable proper tmux copy mode and navigation in all split windows
Users can now scroll through logs, copy text, and resize windows while
maintaining clean auto-close behavior for all operations.
- Add sudo to journalctl command for proper systemd log access
- Add sudo to tail command for system log file access
- Add -n 50 to tail command to match journalctl behavior
- Both J and L keys now show last 50 lines before following
Ensures consistent behavior and proper permissions for all log viewing.
- Add ServiceLogConfig structure for per-host service log paths
- Implement L key handler for custom log file viewing via tmux popup
- Update dashboard config to support service_logs HashMap
- Add tail -f command execution over SSH for real-time log streaming
- Update status line to show L: Custom shortcut
- Document configuration format in CLAUDE.md
Each service can now have custom log file paths configured per host,
accessible via L key with same tmux popup interface as journalctl.
Fix journalctl popup that was failing with 'can't find session' error:
Issue Resolution:
- Change tmux display-popup flag from -t to -T for setting popup title
- -t flag was incorrectly trying to target a session named 'Logs: servicename'
- -T flag correctly sets the popup window title
The J key (Shift+j) service logs feature now works properly, opening
an 80% tmux popup with journalctl -f for real-time log viewing.
Bump version to v0.1.49
Fix notification issues for better operational experience:
Startup Notification Suppression:
- Suppress notifications for transitions from Status::Unknown during agent/server startup
- Prevents notification spam when services transition from Unknown to Warning/Critical on restart
- Only real status changes (not initial discovery) trigger notifications
- Maintains alerting for actual service state changes after startup
Recovery Notification Refinement:
- Recovery notifications only sent when ALL services reach OK status
- Individual service recoveries suppressed if other services still have problems
- Ensures recovery notifications indicate complete system health restoration
- Prevents premature celebration when partial recoveries occur
Result: Clean startup experience without false alerts and meaningful recovery
notifications that truly indicate full system health restoration.
Bump version to v0.1.48
Correct user-stopped service behavior during startup transitions:
User-Stopped Flag Timing Fix:
- Clear user-stopped flag only when service actually becomes active, not when start command succeeds
- Remove premature flag clearing from service control handler
- Add automatic flag clearing when service status metrics show active state
- Services retain user-stopped status during activating/transitioning states
Service Transition Handling:
- User-stopped services in activating state now report Status::OK instead of Status::Pending
- Prevents host warnings during legitimate service startup transitions
- Maintains accurate status reporting throughout service lifecycle
- Failed service starts preserve user-stopped flags correctly
Journalctl Popup Fix:
- Fix terminal corruption when using J key for service logs
- Correct command quoting to prevent tmux popup interference
- Stable popup display without dashboard interface corruption
Result: Clean service startup experience with no false warnings and proper
user-stopped tracking throughout the entire service lifecycle.
Bump version to v0.1.47
New Features:
- Add journalctl service logs viewer via Shift+J key
- Opens tmux popup with real-time log streaming using journalctl -f
- Shows last 50 lines and follows new log entries for selected service
- Popup titled 'Logs: service.service' for clear context
Improvements:
- Increase tmux popup size to 80% width and height for better readability
- Applies to both rebuild (R) and logs (J) popups
- Compact status line text to fit new J: Logs shortcut
- Updated documentation with new key binding
Navigation Updates:
- J: Show service logs (journalctl in tmux popup)
- Status line: Tab: Host • ↑↓/jk: Select • r: Rebuild • s/S: Start/Stop • J: Logs • q: Quit
Bump version to v0.1.46
Improve user-stopped service tracking behavior:
Service Display Fix:
- Services widget now shows actual systemctl status (active/inactive)
- Use info.status instead of hardcoded text based on widget_status
- User-stopped services correctly display 'inactive' with green OK icon
- Prevents misleading 'active' display for stopped services
User-Stopped Flag Timing Fix:
- Clear user-stopped flag AFTER successful service start, not when command sent
- Prevents warnings during service startup transition period
- Service remains Status::OK during 'activating' state for user-stopped services
- Flag only cleared when systemctl start command actually succeeds
- Failed start attempts preserve user-stopped flag
Result: Clean service state tracking with accurate display and no false alerts
during intentional user operations.
Bump version to v0.1.45
Service stop/start operations were failing because systemctl commands
were missing the .service suffix. This caused the new user-stopped
tracking feature to mark services but not actually control them.
Changes:
- Add .service suffix to systemctl commands in service control handler
- Matches pattern used throughout systemd collector
- Fixes service start/stop functionality via dashboard
Clean up legacy documentation:
- Remove outdated TODO.md, AGENTS.md, and test files
- Update CLAUDE.md with current architecture and rules only
- Comprehensive README.md rewrite with technical documentation
- Document user-stopped service tracking feature
Bump version to v0.1.44
Add comprehensive tracking for services stopped via dashboard to prevent
false alerts when users intentionally stop services.
Features:
- User-stopped services report Status::Ok instead of Warning
- Persistent storage survives agent restarts
- Dashboard sends UserStart/UserStop commands
- Agent tracks and syncs user-stopped state globally
- Systemd collector respects user-stopped flags
Implementation:
- New service_tracker module with persistent JSON storage
- Enhanced ServiceAction enum with UserStart/UserStop variants
- Global singleton tracker accessible by collectors
- Service status logic updated to check user-stopped flag
- Dashboard version now uses CARGO_PKG_VERSION automatically
Bump version to v0.1.43
- Add get_git_commit() method to read /var/lib/cm-dashboard/git-commit
- Replace NixOS build version with actual git commit hash
- Show deployed commit hash as 'Build:' value for accurate tracking
- Enable verification of which exact commit is deployed per host
- Update version to 0.1.42
- Change system panel title from 'NixOS:' to 'NixOS hostname:'
- Make main dashboard title 'cm-dashboard' bold in top bar
- Remove unused Typography::title() function to fix warnings
- Update SystemWidget::render_with_scroll to accept hostname parameter
- Update version to 0.1.41 in all Cargo.toml files and dashboard code
- Replace complex ASCII logo with simple text header
- Remove extra blank lines for compact display
- Left-align text for clean appearance
- Add spacing after target line for readability
- Simplify heredoc format for better maintainability
- Display branded CM Dashboard ASCII logo in green when rebuild starts
- Shows logo immediately when tmux popup opens for better UX
- Includes rebuild target hostname and visual separator
- Enhances rebuild process with professional branding
- Bump version to v0.1.39
- Replace hardcoded 500ms/2000ms thresholds with configurable nginx_latency_critical_ms
- Simplify status logic to only OK or Critical (no Warning status)
- Add validation for nginx latency threshold configuration
- Re-enable nginx site collection with configurable thresholds
- Resolves issue where sites showed critical at 2000ms despite 30s timeout setting
- Bump version to v0.1.38
- Set fixed width (15 chars) for left side to prevent chunk collapse
- Resolves issue where "cm-dashboard" text would flash and disappear
- Ensures consistent visibility of title text in dynamic status bar
- Bump version to v0.1.37
- Title bar background now dynamically changes based on worst-case status across all hosts
- Green: all OK, Yellow: warnings present, Red: critical issues, Blue: pending, Gray: unknown
- Provides immediate visual feedback of overall infrastructure health
- Added 1-character padding on both sides of title bar
- Maintains dark text for visibility against all status background colors
- Bump version to v0.1.36
- Fix disk drive name extraction for mount points with underscores (e.g., /mnt/steampool)
- Replace confusing "1" and "2" drive names with proper device names like "sda1", "sda2"
- Update title bar with blue background and dark text styling
- Right-align host list in title bar while keeping "cm-dashboard" on left
- Bump version to v0.1.35
- Fix service icons to use background color when selected for better visibility against blue selection background
- Combine start/stop service help text entries into single "s/S: Start/Stop Service"
- Change help text keys to lowercase (r: Rebuild Host, q: Quit)
- Bump version to v0.1.34
Updated documentation to reflect major UI improvements:
- Documented simplified navigation system (no more panel switching)
- Updated current status to October 28, 2025 with v0.1.33
- Described complete service discovery and visibility features
- Added vi-style j/k navigation documentation
- Removed outdated panel-focused navigation descriptions
- Updated visual feedback documentation for transitional icons
- Consolidated service discovery achievements and current working state
Major UI simplification and navigation improvements:
Changes:
- Removed panel selection concept entirely (no more Shift+Tab)
- Service selection always visible with blue highlighting
- Up/Down arrows now directly control service selection
- Added j/k vi-style navigation keys as alternatives to arrow keys
- Removed panel focus borders - all panels look uniform
- Service commands (s/S) work without panel focus requirements
- Updated keyboard shortcuts to reflect simplified navigation
Navigation:
- Tab: Switch hosts
- ↑↓/jk: Select service (always works)
- R: Rebuild host
- s: Start service
- S: Stop service
- q: Quit
The interface is now much simpler and more intuitive with direct service control.
Enhanced service discovery to properly show status for all services:
Changes:
- Use systemctl list-unit-files for complete service discovery (finds all services)
- Use systemctl list-units --all for batch runtime status fetching
- Combine both datasets to get comprehensive service list with correct status
- Services found in unit-files but not runtime are marked as inactive (Warning status)
- Eliminates 'unknown' status issue while maintaining complete service visibility
Now inactive services show as Warning (yellow ◐) and active services show as Ok (green ●)
instead of all services showing as unknown (? icon).
Changed service discovery from 'systemctl list-units --all' to 'systemctl list-unit-files'
to ensure ALL service unit files are discovered, including services that have never been started.
Changes:
- Updated systemctl command to use list-unit-files instead of list-units --all
- Modified parsing logic to handle unit file format (2 fields vs 4 fields)
- Set placeholder values in discovery cache, actual runtime status fetched during collection
- This ensures all configured services (like inactive ARK servers) appear in dashboard
The issue was that list-units --all only shows services systemd has loaded/attempted to load,
but list-unit-files shows ALL service unit files regardless of their runtime state.
Simplified keyboard controls by removing service restart functionality:
- Removed 'r' key restart functionality from Services panel
- Made 'R' key always trigger system rebuild regardless of focused panel
- Updated context shortcuts to show 'R: Rebuild Host' globally
- Removed all ServiceRestart enum variants and associated code:
- UiCommand::ServiceRestart
- CommandType::ServiceRestart
- ServiceAction::Restart
- Cleaned up pending transition logic to only handle Start/Stop commands
The 'R' key now consistently rebuilds the current host from any panel,
while 's' and 'S' continue to handle service start/stop in Services panel.
Resolved issues with transitional service icons not being properly visible:
- Removed 3-second timeout that was clearing pending transitions prematurely
- Fixed selection highlighting disappearing when transitional icons appeared
- Implemented conditional coloring for transitional icons:
- Blue when service is not selected
- Dark background color when service is selected (for visibility against blue selection)
- Transitions now persist until actual service status changes occur
Both selection highlighting and transitional icons are now visible simultaneously.
The root cause of transitional service icons not showing was that service names
were stored as raw names (e.g., "sshd") in pending_transitions but looked up
against formatted display lines (e.g., "sshd active 1M ").
Changes:
- Modified display_lines structure to include both formatted text and raw service names
- Updated rendering loop to use raw service names for pending transition lookups
- Fixed get_selected_service() method to use the new tuple structure
- Transitional icons (↑ ↓ ↻) should now appear correctly when pressing s/S/r keys
- Force sshd service to always show "↑ starting" for debugging
- Test if basic directional arrow rendering works in services widget
- Temporary debug change to isolate rendering vs logic issues
- Will help determine if problem is in pending transitions or rendering
If arrow appears: pending transitions logic issue
If no arrow: basic rendering path issue
- Store pending transitions even for redundant commands (start active service)
- Add 3-second timeout for redundant command visual feedback
- Include timestamp in pending transitions to enable timeout clearing
- Show directional arrows immediately regardless of command validation result
- Fix core issue where state validation prevented visual feedback storage
Now pressing s/S/r always shows immediate directional arrows, even for
redundant operations, providing consistent visual feedback to users.
- Prevent selection highlighting when service has pending transition
- Allow directional arrows (↑ ↓ ↻) to show through on selected services
- Fix core issue where selection styling was overwriting transitional icons
- Transitional icons now properly visible during service command execution
The selection highlighting logic now skips services with pending transitions,
ensuring that directional arrows are visible when executing service commands.
- Replace timeout-based command status with pending service transitions
- Show immediate directional arrows when pressing service commands (↑ ↓ ↻)
- Track original service status and command type for each pending operation
- Automatically clear transitional icons when real status updates arrive
- Remove unused TerminalPopup and CommandStatus infrastructure
- Simplify visual feedback system using state-based approach
Service commands now provide instant visual feedback that persists until
the actual service state changes, eliminating timing issues and improving UX.
- Add service state detection before executing start/stop/restart commands
- Prevent redundant operations (start active services, stop inactive services)
- Show immediate directional arrows for command feedback (↑ starting, ↓ stopping, ↻ restarting)
- Add get_service_status() method to ServicesWidget for state access
- Remove unused TerminalPopup code and dangling methods
- Clean up warnings and unused code throughout codebase
Service commands now validate current state and provide instant UX feedback while
preserving existing status icons and colors during transitions.
- Fix /tmp usage status to use proper thresholds instead of hardcoded Ok status
- Fix wear level status to use configurable thresholds instead of hardcoded values
- Add dedicated tmp_status field to SystemWidget for proper /tmp status display
- Remove host-level hourglass icon during service operations
- Implement immediate service status updates after start/stop/restart commands
- Remove active users display and collection from NixOS section
- Fix immediate host status aggregation transmission to dashboard
- Separate dashboard updates from email notifications for immediate status aggregation
- Add metric caching to MetricCollectionManager for instant dashboard updates
- Dashboard now receives cached data every 1 second instead of waiting for collection intervals
- Fix transmission to use cached metrics rather than triggering fresh collection
- Email notifications maintain separate 60-second batching interval
- Update configurable email notification aggregation interval
- Fix email notification aggregation to send batched notifications instead of individual emails
- Fix startup data collection to properly process initial status without triggering change notifications
- Maintain event-driven transmission while preserving aggregated notification batching
- Update version from 0.1.19 to 0.1.20 across all components
Major architectural improvements:
CORE CHANGES:
- Remove notification_interval_seconds - status aggregation now immediate
- Status calculation moved to collection phase instead of transmission
- Event-driven transmission triggers immediately on status changes
- Dual transmission strategy: immediate on change + periodic backup
- Real-time notifications without batching delays
TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENTS:
- process_metric() now returns bool indicating status change
- Immediate ZMQ broadcast when status changes detected
- Status aggregation happens during metric collection, not later
- Legacy get_nixos_build_info() method removed (unused)
- All compilation warnings fixed
BEHAVIOR CHANGES:
- Critical alerts sent instantly instead of waiting for intervals
- Dashboard receives real-time status updates
- Notifications triggered immediately on status transitions
- Backup periodic transmission every 1s ensures heartbeat
This provides much more responsive monitoring with instant alerting
while maintaining the reliability of periodic transmission as backup.
- Implement per-collector interval timing respecting NixOS config
- Remove all hardcoded timeout/interval values and make configurable
- Add tmux session requirement check for TUI mode (bypassed for headless)
- Update agent to send config hash in Build field instead of nixos version
- Add nginx check interval, HTTP timeouts, and ZMQ transmission interval configs
- Update NixOS configuration with new configurable values
Breaking changes:
- Build field now shows nix store config hash (8 chars) instead of nixos version
- All intervals now follow individual collector configuration instead of global
New configuration fields:
- systemd.nginx_check_interval_seconds
- systemd.http_timeout_seconds
- systemd.http_connect_timeout_seconds
- zmq.transmission_interval_seconds
- Use tmux display-popup instead of popup with incorrect arguments
- Add -tt flag for proper pseudo-terminal allocation
- Use bash -ic to load shell aliases in SSH session
- Enable rebuild_git alias to work through SSH popup
