operator_ui.py called .replace() on last_update without checking type —
an integer value (written by the materializer) raised AttributeError and
silently fell back to os.path.getmtime(), which was stuck at 5/29 after a
deploy with preserved timestamps. web.py had the same class of bug but
worse: it unconditionally replaced last_update with mtime, ignoring the
JSON field entirely. Both now branch on isinstance(str) and cast numeric
values directly to float, with mtime only as a last-resort fallback.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause of stale data:
- node_agent.py falls back to socket.gethostname() when NODE_NAME is unset.
Inside a Docker container this returns the 12-char container ID (e.g.
'be17cb6eb0f6'), not the host name. Observer ingested those events and
created ghost entries in world/nodes.json that never expired.
observer.py:
- _prune_stale_world(): removes node/service/incident entries for nodes absent
from topology inventory; called on every run_once() cycle (both new-events
and idle paths). Resolved incidents older than 7 days are also aged out.
- _save_world(): now writes node_count and service_count to runtime-summary.json
so the Dashboard's System Overview cards show real numbers instead of undefined.
operator_ui.py:
- current_nodes/services/deployments/incidents(): the observer stores world state
as keyed dicts; the frontend calls .map() which requires an array. All four
functions now convert the dict to a properly-shaped list. Each item has the
fields the Nodes, Services, Topology, Deployments, and Correlation views expect
(hostname, health, capabilities, desired_state, dependencies, etc.).
- current_incidents(): synthesises a human-readable 'message' field from node +
service + trigger_type (observer does not store one; dashboard showed undefined).
- current_events(): adds a 24 h time filter (EVENTS_MAX_AGE_HOURS env var,
default 24). Without this, every event file ever written was returned,
including events from ghost-node deploys.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Oskar Kapala