fix(admin): stop blocking dashboard tiles on PostHog insight recomputes by saddlepaddle · Pull Request #6456 · ParadevAI/Paradev

saddlepaddle · 2026-08-14T00:35:00Z

Problem

Every insight tile fetched its saved insight with refresh=blocking, which holds the HTTP request open while PostHog recomputes the insight. Timed against the real project on a cold cache:

insight	cold
activeOrgs	20.3s
activatedRate	15.2s
newSiteVisitors	9.4s
the other seven	0.3–1.0s

Past PostHog's ~15min refresh throttle, loading the Product tab meant a 20s blocking request.

Fix

refresh=blocking → refresh=lazy_async. PostHog serves its cached result immediately and kicks off the recompute in the background. A genuinely cold insight returns no result yet, so fetchInsightResults reports pending and the tile polls until it lands — the same idiom getMrr already uses for Stripe Sigma.

The staleTime + pending-poll wiring is now one useInsightResults hook rather than the identical query block repeated in all four insight tiles.

Measurement

Against the local API with all five Product-tab insights forced to recompute, transport unchanged in both runs:

before (refresh=blocking) — total 18.0s
  + 4.55s  WAU
  + 4.83s  DAU
  + 4.95s  workspacesPerCreator
  + 9.01s  activatedRate
  +18.05s  activeOrgs

after (refresh=lazy_async) — total 0.85s
  all five tiles landed between +0.80s and +0.85s

Notes

Tiles now paint last-known numbers first and update when the recompute lands. The tile header already shows lastRefresh, so staleness stays visible.
I also checked whether the tRPC batch link was coupling tiles together. It isn't — httpBatchStreamLink streams each result as it resolves (visible in the before-run above, where the fast tiles landed at ~4.5s while activeOrgs was still running). No transport change needed.
Two adjacent things left alone: getEnterpriseArr fetches Stripe subscriptions serially in a loop, and the business tiles have no staleTime so they re-run Mercury/Stripe/cohort queries on window refocus.

Summary by cubic

Stops blocking admin dashboard tiles on PostHog recomputes. Old behavior held requests with refresh=blocking; new behavior uses refresh=lazy_async to return cached results immediately and poll during recompute, keeping stale charts visible.

Adds useInsightResults(insight) with staleTime=10m; polls every 3s while pending.
fetchInsightResults now uses refresh=lazy_async; sets pending when no result or query_status is incomplete; throws on query_status.error so tiles show an error instead of polling forever.
Tiles (HogQLLineTile, TrendSeriesTile, RetentionGridTile, PostHogFunnelTile) adopt the hook; show a skeleton only when no result exists; stale numbers stay rendered and update when recompute lands; lastRefresh remains visible.
Product tab cold recomputes improve from ~18s to ~0.85s for the last tile to land.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Analytics insight tiles now share consistent result loading and refresh behavior.
- Results automatically update while insights are being recalculated, with refreshes continuing until current data is available.
- Insight results are reused briefly to improve responsiveness and reduce unnecessary reloads.
Bug Fixes
- Tiles no longer appear complete while results are still pending.
- Stale results are clearly treated as pending during background recomputation, preventing misleading displays.

Every insight tile fetched its saved insight with `refresh=blocking`, which holds the request open while PostHog recomputes. Measured against the real project on a cold cache, that is 20.3s for activeOrgs, 15.2s for activatedRate, and 9.4s for newSiteVisitors; the other seven insights hit PostHog's cache and return in under a second. Switch to `refresh=lazy_async`: PostHog serves its cached result immediately and recomputes in the background past its refresh throttle. A cold insight comes back with no result yet, so `fetchInsightResults` reports `pending` and the tile polls until the result lands, matching the existing getMrr idiom. Measured on the Product tab with all five insights forced to recompute, the same batched transport went from 18.0s to 0.85s for the last tile to land. The staleTime and pending-poll wiring is now a single useInsightResults hook instead of the same query block repeated in all four insight tiles. Tiles paint stale numbers first and update when the recompute lands; the tile header already surfaces lastRefresh.

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Dashboard insight tiles now use a shared useInsightResults hook. PostHog returns pending status for asynchronous results. The hook polls pending results, and tiles remain loading until results are available.

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Insight result loading

Layer / File(s)	Summary
PostHog pending result contract `packages/trpc/src/lib/posthog-client.ts`	PostHog uses `refresh=lazy_async`, exposes query status, raises failed-query errors, and returns pending status for missing or recomputing results.
Shared insight results hook `apps/admin/src/app/(dashboard)/hooks/useInsightResults/*`	The hook adds 10-minute caching and polls every 3 seconds while results remain pending.
Dashboard tile integration `apps/admin/src/app/(dashboard)/components/Tile/`	HogQL, funnel, retention, and trend tiles use the shared hook and include unavailable results in their loading states.

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The dashboard now returns cached insight values immediately and updates them asynchronously, reducing tile load latency without any actionable merge-blocking risk remaining.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant InsightTile
  participant useInsightResults
  participant tRPC
  participant PostHog
  InsightTile->>useInsightResults: request insight key
  useInsightResults->>tRPC: query insight results
  tRPC->>PostHog: fetch with refresh=lazy_async
  PostHog-->>tRPC: result and query_status
  tRPC-->>useInsightResults: result and pending status
  useInsightResults-->>InsightTile: result and loading state

Possibly related PRs

superset-sh/superset#6410: Modifies the same insight tile components and posthog-client.ts, with a related pending-aware insight-fetching pattern.

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Past cache_target_age, lazy_async returns the stale result *and* a live query_status for the recompute it just started, so `result == null` missed that case and the tile sat on stale numbers until the next refetch. Drive `pending` off query_status as well, and key the tile skeleton off the result being absent rather than off `pending`, so a stale chart stays on screen while the recompute runs instead of collapsing to a skeleton.

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In `@packages/trpc/src/lib/posthog-client.ts`:
- Around line 52-62: Update the response mapping around recomputing and pending
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terminal: exclude it from pending and throw an appropriate terminal error
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…rever A failed cold query comes back with result null and query_status.error set. `pending` was `result == null || recomputing`, so the error guard on the recomputing term never applied and the tile polled a query that can never complete, sitting behind a skeleton indefinitely. A failed query is terminal — retrying means starting a new one — so throw and let the tile render its error state.

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