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Links the Traces V2 screen and the chat in both directions, per MOT-4479. (Replaces #902, closed by a branch rename.)

Chat → traces: the list follows the active conversation

Selecting a conversation scopes the trace list to its iii.session.id, server-side via withSessionScope. The identity attributes are stamped as baggage on worker child spans, never on a trace's root — a roots-only attribute filter matches nothing — so the scope rides the same search_all_spans wire shape as text search and the list's dedupe collapses the response back to one row per trace. A chip next to the views dropdown names the followed conversation and dismisses the scope per session; grouping is suspended while scoped (it would collapse to a single group).

Traces → chat: "go to message"

An open trace resolves its session/turn from the row's merged trace tags (iii.session.id / iii.session.name / iii.message.id — the harness turn id), with a span-attribute fallback for details opened without their row (timeline-strip click, deep link). The button opens the conversation and lands the transcript on the turn's rows: the turn's entry ids embed the turn id (e_<turn_id>_…), the user row that started it is recovered positionally (lib/turn-anchor.ts), and MessageList centers + flashes the row with tail-follow paused. The focus request travels through a tiny latest-event store (lib/trace-links.ts) written before the chat pane mounts, and is consumed on landing — or dropped once a hydrated transcript provably lacks the turn, so a stale request can't fire on a later visit.

The link resolves from the list row's tags alone, so the jump is available while the trace detail is still loading — the button renders on the detail skeleton too, wired like its close affordance.

Trace detail loads in pages

The detail seed used to be one flat read of up to 10k spans; a large trace could stall the worker connection with one oversized RPC response. It now pages at 250 spans (sorted by start time), with a short-page guard so a stale total can't loop.

Tests

  • traceChatLink, trace-links, turn-anchor, traceFilters unit tests (new)
  • pnpm typecheck and the full pnpm vitest run suite (1649 tests) pass on top of main

Fixes MOT-4479

https://claude.ai/code/session_01PkBwsbShR6zyzkupCuxjoZ

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added “Go to message” actions in trace details and headers to jump to related chat messages.
    • Traces now follow the active chat session with session-specific filtering.
    • Chat navigation highlights, centers, and reveals selected transcript messages.
    • Trace details progressively load large results through paginated loading.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved trace-to-chat matching across transcript entries and notifications.
    • Prevented stale trace results after changing session filters.
    • Improved observability status, loading progress, and empty-state accuracy.
    • Reduced unnecessary refreshes for filtered trace lists.

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Walkthrough

The traces page follows the active chat session, loads trace details with adaptive pagination, and resolves trace metadata to chat turns. Trace actions open the conversation and focus the matching transcript row through an ephemeral focus store.

Changes

Trace-to-chat navigation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Trace linkage and transcript anchor contracts
console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/lib/traceChatLink.ts, console/web/src/lib/turn-anchor.ts, console/web/src/lib/trace-links.ts, console/web/src/lib/*.test.ts, console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/lib/*.test.ts, console/web/src/lib/session-id.ts
Trace metadata resolves to session and turn identifiers. Turn identifiers resolve to transcript anchors. The focus store supports reactive access, replacement, ID-guarded clearing, and test reset.
Session-scoped trace listing and detail loading
console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/index.tsx, console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/lib/traceFilters.ts, console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/lib/traceDetailPages.ts, console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/api/traces.ts, console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/hooks/useTraceData.ts, console/web/e2e/multi-turn-traces.spec.ts
Trace results follow the active conversation, use all-span session filters, disable grouping while scoped, show scope state, distinguish unavailable observability, and load detail spans with adaptive page sizing, timeout retries, progressive updates, and deduplication.
Trace detail chat entry point
console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/components/TraceHeader.tsx, console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/components/TraceDetailSkeleton.tsx, console/web/src/lib/conversations-context.tsx, console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/index.tsx
Trace detail controls render a go-to-message action when a turn link exists. The page requests focus and opens the linked conversation.
Transcript focus and message landing
console/web/src/components/chat/ChatView.tsx, console/web/src/components/chat/MessageList.tsx, console/web/src/components/chat/MessageList.test.tsx
ChatView filters focus events to the active session and preserves live-turn requests for a grace period. MessageList reveals hidden groups, locates, centers, flashes, and acknowledges the target row.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1cc31

The new bidirectional trace/chat links and paged trace loading can trigger overlapping refreshes and retries; current update ordering and timeout handling may display stale or incomplete trace details, bypass refresh throttling, or consume excess trace-service capacity. The PR is not merge-ready until these bounded correctness and request-lifecycle risks are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant TraceHeader
  participant TracesV2
  participant TraceLinks
  participant ConversationsContext
  participant ChatView
  participant MessageList
  TraceHeader->>TracesV2: open linked message
  TracesV2->>TraceLinks: request sessionId and turnId
  TracesV2->>ConversationsContext: openConversation(sessionId)
  ConversationsContext->>ChatView: select conversation
  TraceLinks->>ChatView: publish focus event
  ChatView->>MessageList: pass resolved focusMessageId
  MessageList->>ChatView: report focus handled
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A rabbit follows a trace through the night
It finds the matching turn by light
The chat row opens, centered and clear
A gentle flash says, “Message here”
Session paths hop into place

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- The traces list follows the active conversation: selecting a chat
  scopes the list server-side to its iii.session.id (the identity
  attrs live on worker child spans, so the scope rides the
  search_all_spans wire shape), with a dismissable chip to show every
  session again.
- "Go to message" on an open trace resolves the session/turn from the
  row's merged trace tags (span-attribute fallback for details opened
  without their row), opens the conversation, and lands the transcript
  on the turn's rows — centered, flashed, tail-follow paused. The link
  resolves from the list row's tags alone, so the jump is available
  while the paged detail is still loading (the button also renders on
  the detail skeleton).
- Trace detail now loads in pages of 250 spans, so a very large trace
  never becomes one oversized RPC response on the worker connection.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PkBwsbShR6zyzkupCuxjoZ
…dings

Groups collapse by default on main, so a "go to message" target hidden
behind the collapse had no DOM row and the landing could never center it —
the pending focus request just lingered. The group now expands itself,
via the render-phase setState pattern, in the same render the request
resolves, latched through `expanded` so consuming the request doesn't
re-collapse the revealed row.

A wake pair's absorbed notification is addressable too: the pair's row
carries both entry ids in `data-message-row`, space-separated, and the
landing lookup matches tokens — a trigger-woken turn's anchor (its
notification user message) lands on the pair that absorbed it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AG4J9zkEQPppaB8hmrq5XF

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414-450: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Prevent stale detail loads from committing state.

If a user opens trace A and then trace B, trace A can finish last. Line 438 then replaces detailSpansRef.current, and Line 439 renders A's data while selectedTraceId is still B. The paged loop increases the time window for this ordering.

Track a load generation for each selection. Commit the span map, waterfall data, error state, and loading state only when that generation is still current.

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In `@console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/index.tsx` around lines 414 - 450, Update the
trace-detail loading flow around fetchTraces and rebuildDetail to track a
generation per selected trace, and before committing detailSpansRef.current,
waterfall data, errors, or loading state verify that the load generation is
still current. Stale loads for a previously selected trace must not update UI or
refs, including in catch and finally paths.
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In `@console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/index.tsx`:
- Around line 414-450: Update the trace-detail loading flow around fetchTraces
and rebuildDetail to track a generation per selected trace, and before
committing detailSpansRef.current, waterfall data, errors, or loading state
verify that the load generation is still current. Stale loads for a previously
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"Go to message" on a still-running turn used to no-op: the turn's durable
rows had not reached the transcript yet, so the hydrated-but-anchorless
guard dropped the request on arrival. The drop now waits for the session
to stop working — a live turn writes its rows as it goes, and landing when
they appear is what the click asked for — and rides out the completion gap
(status flips idle before the last rows land) behind a short grace timer.
The id guard keeps a stale timer from dropping a newer request, and a
genuinely absent turn still drops, so a stale request can't fire on a
later visit.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AG4J9zkEQPppaB8hmrq5XF
…red traces

The session-scoped empty state claimed "send a message to see its work
here", which reads as a lie on a conversation that HAS worked but whose
traces already expired from storage. The client cannot distinguish
"never ran" from "already expired", so the copy now owns both causes and
keeps both ways out: wait for new activity, or clear the session chip.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AG4J9zkEQPppaB8hmrq5XF
…ount

Measured against a live engine, a fixed 250-span page is not safe: a trace
of ~75KB spans served 200 spans as a 15MB response in about a second, and a
230-span page — past the transport's ~16MiB message cap — never arrived at
all. No error either: the RPC hangs forever, and the client wrapper exposes
no timeout, so the detail skeleton would spin indefinitely — the very
symptom the paging was added to fix, with the threshold moved.

The seed now probes with a small first page, prices the trace's spans from
that page's serialized size, and sizes every later page to a budget well
under the cap. A client-side timeout backstops a mispriced page (one giant
late span): shrink and retry the same window; only a page undeliverable at
the floor fails the load, with an honest error.

The live-engine check also settled the open questions in the old loop's
favor: `include_internal` filters BEFORE pagination and `total` (2044 vs
1483 on the same trace), and pages arrive full — so the short-page guard
is a correct end-of-list signal, now compared against the limit actually
requested for that call.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AG4J9zkEQPppaB8hmrq5XF
…es land

Byte-sized paging made large traces load safely, but the whole sweep — up
to ~14 one-second pages for a measured 1483-span trace of ~75KB spans —
held the skeleton the entire time. Each merged page now updates the
waterfall in place, dismissing the skeleton at the first painted page, so
the detail appears in about a second and fills in with the same shape live
span appends already have.

Progressive updates also make the seed race load-bearing: a superseded
sweep used to clobber state once at its end, now it would touch state on
every page. A sequence guard abandons the stale sweep (its fetches stop,
its late error stays silent), so switching traces mid-load keeps only the
newest selection's spans.

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In `@console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/lib/traceDetailPages.ts`:
- Around line 68-76: Update the trace-page request flow around withTimeout,
fetchPage, and fetchTraces to use cancellation at the transport boundary: create
an abort signal/controller for each request, pass it through to client.trigger,
and abort it when withTimeout returns TIMED_OUT before retrying or throwing at
the minimum page size. Preserve the existing page-size reduction and retry
behavior.
- Around line 84-90: Update collectTraceDetailSpans so bytesPerSpan uses the
UTF-8 byte length of the serialized spans via
TextEncoder().encode(...).byteLength instead of String.length, preserving the
existing page-size bounds; add a regression test covering CJK or emoji span
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const page = await withTimeout(fetchPage(offset, limit), timeoutMs)
if (page === TIMED_OUT) {
if (pageSize <= TRACE_DETAIL_MIN_PAGE_SIZE) {
throw new Error(
`trace page of ${pageSize} spans never arrived — spans too large to deliver`,
)
}
pageSize = Math.max(TRACE_DETAIL_MIN_PAGE_SIZE, Math.floor(pageSize / 2))
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Abort timed-out trace-page requests before retrying.

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const bytesPerSpan = JSON.stringify(page.spans).length / page.spans.length
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Math.max(
TRACE_DETAIL_MIN_PAGE_SIZE,
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iii-browser-sdk 0.23.0-rc.2 source trigger WebSocket serialization message size UTF-8

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The iii-browser-sdk (including version 0.23.0-rc.2 [1]) is a TypeScript SDK designed for browser applications to interact with the iii engine via WebSocket [2][3]. Regarding your specific keywords: WebSocket Serialization and Message Size The SDK uses WebSocket for communication [2][3]. For streaming functionality (via ChannelWriter/ChannelReader), the implementation includes 64 KiB chunking to handle larger data transfers efficiently [3]. Because it operates over standard WebSockets, payloads are typically serialized as JSON for control frames [4] or sent as binary data (Uint8Array) for streaming operations [5][3]. As is standard with WebSocket and JavaScript environments, data is treated as UTF-8 encoded strings when sending text-based messages (like JSON frames) [6][7]. Source Trigger In the context of iii-browser-sdk, a trigger is a mechanism to bind functions to events or invoke them remotely [2][8]. Developers register triggers using registerTrigger({ type, function_id, config }) [2][8]. The system supports various trigger types, and when a publisher worker receives an event (e.g., from a source like an HTTP request or webhook), it dispatches that event to bound functions [9]. The engine's protocol defines these triggers, and the SDK serializes these registration and invocation requests into the underlying WebSocket frames [4][3]. Top results: [1], [2], [5], [3], [8]

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In the context of the iii engine, there is no generic 16 MiB maximum message size for WebSocket JSON messages. Instead, the architecture utilizes a 4 MiB hard limit (MAX_FRAME_SIZE) for specific lower-level protocol frames to prevent memory exhaustion [1]. For larger data transfers, the engine employs a "channel" mechanism rather than sending large monolithic JSON messages. Data written to these channels is automatically chunked into 64 KiB frames to ensure stability and efficiency over WebSocket connections [2][3]. Key details regarding message and data handling in the iii engine include: - Protocol Framing: A 4 MiB (MAX_FRAME_SIZE) limit is enforced for shell protocol frames, matching requirements for sandboxed environments to prevent OOM (Out-of-Memory) errors on the host relay [1]. - Data Channels: When handling large binary blobs or data produced over time, developers are instructed to use channels. These channels manage data throughput by chunking payloads into 64 KiB segments [2]. - JSON Communication: Standard function invocations and triggers use JSON-serializable messages [2]. While JSON is efficient for structured metadata and triggers, the system intentionally offloads large data handling to the streaming channel infrastructure to maintain performance [2][3]. - Trigger Mechanisms: The engine routes events via registerTrigger and trigger calls, which are distinct from the raw data streaming path [4][5]. These triggers handle configuration and invocation requests as structured JSON payloads [6].

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In the context of the iii-hq/iii codebase, the expression 16 * 1024 * 1024 (equivalent to 16,777,216 bytes or 16 MiB) does not appear as a documented global WebSocket message size limit. Instead, the codebase uses various constants for resource and memory management that involve similar calculations or powers of two: 1. Memory and Buffer Constraints: The codebase utilizes explicit memory caps and frame-bounded constraints to manage resources [1]. For instance, there are discussions regarding the danger of fixed frame-count caps causing excessive memory usage and the potential to implement byte-budgeted caps using constants derived from buffer size and frame size [1]. 2. Preallocation Defensive Caps: In unrelated CLI download utility code, a 256 MiB (256 * 1024 * 1024) cap has been suggested as a defensive measure when preallocating vectors to prevent issues on 32-bit systems [2]. 3. WebSocket Configuration: WebSocket connections for engine and stream services are managed via specific configuration (e.g., ports 49134 and 3112) [3]. Liveness is governed by handshake timeouts (10 seconds), ping intervals (20 seconds), and idle timeouts (60 seconds) [4][5]. 4. Validation Bounds: The engine enforces specific validation bounds for data operations, such as a maximum path depth of 32, a segment byte limit of 256, a value depth of 16, and a limit of 1024 top-level keys [6][7]. If you are encountering a limit during WebSocket communication, it is likely enforced by the underlying infrastructure (such as the web server or proxy) or the specific implementation of the socket handler rather than a globally defined constant of 16 MiB in this repository [5].

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Use UTF-8 byte length for page sizing.

collectTraceDetailSpans uses JSON.stringify(page.spans).length to calculate bytesPerSpan. String.length counts UTF-16 code units, so non-ASCII span data can exceed the intended 8 MiB response budget. Use TextEncoder().encode(...).byteLength and add a CJK or emoji regression test.

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In `@console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/lib/traceDetailPages.ts` around lines 84 - 90,
Update collectTraceDetailSpans so bytesPerSpan uses the UTF-8 byte length of the
serialized spans via TextEncoder().encode(...).byteLength instead of
String.length, preserving the existing page-size bounds; add a regression test
covering CJK or emoji span data.

…il loads

Progressive painting removed the only signal that a trace was still
loading — after the first page the detail looked finished while up to a
dozen pages were still in flight. The header's span chip now counts up
("350/1483 spans" behind a spinner) while the paged seed sweeps, and
settles into the usual total when the sweep completes. The newest seed
owns the chip: superseding a sweep clears its reading immediately.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AG4J9zkEQPppaB8hmrq5XF
…l sweep

Live-measured on a 609-span trace: rebuilding the waterfall on every page
saturated the main thread — between the first painted page and the sweep's
end the page produced essentially no frames, so the progressive fill and
the counting chip could not actually animate. Repaints are now throttled
to ~1/600ms during the sweep (the chip still counts every page — a cheap
state update — and the final rebuild always runs). Same trace after: the
sweep dropped from ~14s to ~10s and the count visibly progresses
(206/609 → 362/609 → done). The remaining stretch without frames is the
inherent main-thread parse of multi-MB page payloads in the SDK, out of
scope here.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AG4J9zkEQPppaB8hmrq5XF
Browser-validated failure: opening a chat whose scoped seed is slow showed
"no observability — trace exporter not registered" for the whole wait (a
lie — the exporter was fine), with no loading indication; and switching
chats kept the PREVIOUS session's rows on screen, under the new session's
chip, until the new response landed.

Three causes, three fixes:
- `hasOtelConfigured` conflated "exporter missing" with "empty result" and
  "no response yet". It is now tri-state: `false` only on the engine's
  definitive "memory exporter not enabled" answer (marked by fetchTraces,
  which used to swallow it into an indistinguishable empty response),
  `null` until a first response settles, `true` on any response — an empty
  list is an empty list.
- The no-observability message renders only on `false`; while unknown, the
  list area shows its loading skeleton.
- A scope/filter change drops the previous rows (and the hover-held
  pending batch), so the skeleton re-arms and stale traces can't pose as
  the new chat's.

Re-validated in the browser: fresh load and slow scoped loads show the
skeleton (message gone), and 0.6s after a chat switch the panel shows
skeletons, then only the new session's trace.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AG4J9zkEQPppaB8hmrq5XF

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In `@console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/hooks/useTraceData.ts`:
- Around line 129-137: Update the scope-change reset effect in useTraceData to
also reset hasOtelConfigured to null alongside the other cleared observability
state, ensuring a new session or filter query returns to the loading state.

In `@console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/index.tsx`:
- Around line 451-454: Update the seed-page callbacks in the trace loading flow,
including onPage and the corresponding callback around line 473, to merge each
collected span into detailSpansRef.current via mergeDetailSpan instead of
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Comment on lines +129 to +137
useEffect(() => {
if (scopeKeyRef.current === scopeKey) return
scopeKeyRef.current = scopeKey
setTraceListItems([])
fingerprintRef.current = ''
prevTraceIdsRef.current = new Set()
pendingTracesRef.current = null
setNewTraceIds(new Set())
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reset observability state when the scope changes.

If the previous query set hasOtelConfigured to false, this effect clears the rows but retains that value. The page then shows “no observability” instead of the loading state while the new session or filter query is pending.

Set hasOtelConfigured to null with the other scope-reset state.

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     pendingTracesRef.current = null
     setNewTraceIds(new Set())
+    setHasOtelConfigured(null)
   }, [scopeKey])
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useEffect(() => {
if (scopeKeyRef.current === scopeKey) return
scopeKeyRef.current = scopeKey
setTraceListItems([])
fingerprintRef.current = ''
prevTraceIdsRef.current = new Set()
pendingTracesRef.current = null
setNewTraceIds(new Set())
}, [scopeKey])
useEffect(() => {
if (scopeKeyRef.current === scopeKey) return
scopeKeyRef.current = scopeKey
setTraceListItems([])
fingerprintRef.current = ''
prevTraceIdsRef.current = new Set()
pendingTracesRef.current = null
setNewTraceIds(new Set())
setHasOtelConfigured(null)
}, [scopeKey])
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In `@console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/hooks/useTraceData.ts` around lines 129 - 137,
Update the scope-change reset effect in useTraceData to also reset
hasOtelConfigured to null alongside the other cleared observability state,
ensuring a new session or filter query returns to the loading state.

Comment on lines +451 to +454
onPage: (accumulated, total) => {
if (stale()) return
detailSpansRef.current = accumulated
setSeedProgress({ loaded: accumulated.size, total })

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve live stream spans when seed pages arrive.

Lines 453 and 473 replace detailSpansRef.current with the collector-local map. appendDetailSpans merges stream updates into that ref. A stream update received after the seed starts is absent from the collector map, so a later page can remove a new span or replace a finalized span with an older pending snapshot. The waterfall can then remain incomplete until the user reloads the trace.

Merge each seed page into the existing ref with mergeDetailSpan instead of replacing the map. Add a regression test that delivers a stream update between two seed pages.

Proposed fix
-              detailSpansRef.current = accumulated
+              for (const span of accumulated.values()) {
+                mergeDetailSpan(detailSpansRef.current, span)
+              }
               setSeedProgress({ loaded: accumulated.size, total })
...
-        detailSpansRef.current = detailSpans
+        for (const span of detailSpans.values()) {
+          mergeDetailSpan(detailSpansRef.current, span)
+        }

Also applies to: 473-474

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In `@console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/index.tsx` around lines 451 - 454, Update the
seed-page callbacks in the trace loading flow, including onPage and the
corresponding callback around line 473, to merge each collected span into
detailSpansRef.current via mergeDetailSpan instead of replacing the ref with the
collector-local map. Preserve stream updates and newer finalized snapshots when
later seed pages arrive, and add a regression test that sends a stream update
between two seed pages.

…s lists

The scoped/text-search list seed was one flat read of 500 FULL spans: on a
session with ~75KB spans that response reaches ~37MB — past the
transport's ~16MiB delivery cap — and the RPC hangs forever with no error
(CLI-verified: 25s, zero bytes). When it squeaked under the cap it took
~15s; whether it loaded at all depended on the moving span window.

The seed now collects a byte-priced recency window (250 spans): a probe
prices the spans, the remaining windows fire in PARALLEL (the server-side
scan costs ~3.4s per call regardless of limit/offset, measured, so
sequential pages would multiply it; two concurrent scans finish in ~4.5s
total), and a window whose response never arrives splits in half and
retries. Windows price at half the detail budget: a recency window mixes
thin and fat spans (28KB up front, ~83KB deeper — measured), and an
under-priced window costs a timeout+split round. Roots-only seeds are
thin and keep their single read.

Two guards keep the heavier-but-deliverable seed from melting the page:
activity-driven reseeds of a filtered list now cool down to one per 10s
(a busy session used to refetch the multi-MB sweep back-to-back — the old
code got away with it only because its refetch hung silently), and the
query retries once, not three ladders deep.

Browser-measured end state on a 2092-span session: skeleton throughout,
rows in ~17s, page responsive between parses — versus 15s-or-forever
behind a false "no observability" panel. The residual latency is
structural (engine scan cost, main-thread payload parse) and needs
engine-side help: an errored oversized response, a roots-only scoped
query, or an events-free list shape.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AG4J9zkEQPppaB8hmrq5XF
…scope

The trace list now follows the active chat: it arrives scoped to the
session, flat (grouping is suspended while scoped), with a dismissable
chip — so the group row this e2e waited for could never render. Assert
the scoped arrival first (chip + this session's two traces as flat rows),
then clear the scope and run the original grouped flow unchanged.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AG4J9zkEQPppaB8hmrq5XF

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In `@console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/hooks/useTraceData.ts`:
- Line 415: Update startTraceActivityFeed so its flushTagRefresh path routes
filtered traces-query invalidation through throttledFilteredReseed, matching the
row-stream path and enforcing the 10-second cooldown; use a shared reseed entry
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scheduleTagRefresh(spans.map((s) => s.trace_id))
} else {
qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ['traces'] })
throttledFilteredReseed()

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Apply the cooldown to activity-feed reseeds.

At Line 415, only the row-stream path uses throttledFilteredReseed. startTraceActivityFeed schedules flushTagRefresh, which directly invalidates filtered traces queries at Line 311. A busy trace can therefore start an expensive filtered seed once per tag-refresh debounce window and bypass the 10-second limit.

Route that invalidation through the same throttled function, or use one shared reseed entry point.

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In `@console/web/src/pages/TracesV2/hooks/useTraceData.ts` at line 415, Update
startTraceActivityFeed so its flushTagRefresh path routes filtered traces-query
invalidation through throttledFilteredReseed, matching the row-stream path and
enforcing the 10-second cooldown; use a shared reseed entry point rather than
directly invalidating filtered queries.

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Shipped via #940 (squash a7228da): that branch was stacked on top of this one, so its merge carried this PR's entire content — every file unique to this branch is byte-identical on main (verified). Nothing left to merge here.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01AG4J9zkEQPppaB8hmrq5XF

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