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Closes #896

Background

Once a federated app has produced more than a few traces, it gets hard to find one failed activity or one noisy log category in the debug dashboard by scrolling. This adds a small filtering surface to the traces list and to a trace's log table, without changing how trace or log data is stored.

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  • Add a checkbox filter to the traces list page over the activity types it already displays (OR across multiple selections), and keep the live-poll script in sync with the active filter so it does not trigger a reload loop.
  • Add a filter to the trace detail page's log table by category, level, and a case-insensitive text search of the message (AND across the three).
  • Both filters are plain GET forms, so they work without JavaScript and the current selection survives a page reload or a shared link.
  • Add a changelog fragment.

Scope

The issue suggests filtering traces by status or path as one possible first version. Neither field exists on TraceSummary or TraceActivityRecord today: there is no request path captured anywhere, and the closest thing to a status, outbound delivery success or failure, is not captured either — FedifySpanExporter only reacts to activitypub.activity.sent, which send.ts only emits after a successful delivery, so a failed delivery currently leaves no trace record at all. Making that filterable would mean extending FedifySpanExporter in the main package to also capture activitypub.delivery.failed, which is a bigger change than "a small filtering surface" in packages/debugger. I kept this PR scoped to what the dashboard already captures: activity type for traces, category/level/text for logs. Happy to open a follow-up issue for delivery-status capture if that is wanted.

Testing

  • mise run check-each debugger
  • mise run test-each debugger (Deno, Node.js, and Bun; 67/67 pass on each)
  • Manually exercised both filters against a local instance of the dashboard (screenshots below)

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This was implemented with Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5). I picked the issue, decided to scope the filters to data the dashboard already captures instead of extending FedifySpanExporter, and reviewed the design and the results at each step. Claude Code implemented the filtering logic, the UI, and the tests, and ran the checks and tests above on all three runtimes.

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The debugger filters traces by activity type and trace logs by category, level, or case-insensitive message text. The dashboard and trace-detail pages provide matching controls and filter-specific empty states. Periodic refresh detects changes to trace counts or activity types.

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Debugger filtering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Route filtering and query handling
packages/debugger/src/routes.tsx, CHANGES.md, changes.d/debugger/debug-dashboard-filters.md
Routes filter traces by selected activity types and logs by supplied category, level, and message criteria. Changelog entries describe both filtering surfaces.
Trace-list controls and refresh
packages/debugger/src/views/traces-list.tsx, packages/debugger/src/views/layout.tsx, packages/debugger/src/mod.test.ts
The trace list displays activity-type checkboxes and filter-specific empty states. Periodic refresh compares trace counts and activity types. Tests cover type filters, API results, and refresh behavior.
Trace-log controls and filtering tests
packages/debugger/src/views/trace-detail.tsx, packages/debugger/src/mod.test.ts
Trace details display category, level, and message-search controls. Tests cover individual and combined filters, retained form values, filtered counts, API results, and escaped query text.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Browser
  participant DashboardRoute
  participant TracesListPage
  participant TraceDetailRoute
  participant TraceDetailPage
  Browser->>DashboardRoute: Request selected activity types
  DashboardRoute->>DashboardRoute: Filter traces by matching activity type
  DashboardRoute-->>TracesListPage: Return filtered traces and filter options
  Browser->>TraceDetailRoute: Request category, level, and query filters
  TraceDetailRoute->>TraceDetailRoute: Filter logs by each non-empty criterion
  TraceDetailRoute-->>TraceDetailPage: Return filtered logs and filter options
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The dashboard filters and refresh behavior appear ready to merge after normal checks.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to a94b4

The filters narrow results on existing debugger routes rather than adding privileges or new data sources. No introduced security issue was identified in the inspected paths. Authentication remains configuration-dependent, and deployment exposure and tenant isolation were not verified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new query criteria narrow data already retrievable through the same debugger instance. The inspected change does not introduce a new data source or broader trace identity lookup; the instance’s actual tenant and network exposure remains unestablished.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — Attacker-supplied filter values reach ordinary JSX text and attribute expressions, not a newly introduced raw-HTML sink. The polling script’s raw-HTML block does not interpolate filter query values, and its pathPrefix interpolation uses JSON encoding with less-than escaping.
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Check name Status Explanation
Description check ✅ Passed The description accurately explains the trace and log filtering changes, scope, testing, and implementation decisions.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #896 and reference pull request #1204. The implemented scope matches the described filtering objectives.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within the debugger package, tests, views, styles, and changelog. They do not modify storage or unrelated delivery behavior.
Title check ✅ Passed The title is concise and clearly identifies the main change: adding filtering controls to the debug dashboard.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #896 requests a modest debugger filtering surface and data-boundary tests. The PR adds trace filtering by repeated activity types with OR behavior. It adds log filtering by category, level, and …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within issue #896. Routes, views, polling, styles, tests, and the changelog directly support the debugger filtering surface. The PR does not add unrelated storage changes or delivery-…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 80.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 5 files.
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Review comments at @packages/debugger/src/routes.tsx:
- Around line 219-232: Update the TraceDetailPage call in the route to preserve
the total log count separately from the filtered logs, and use that total in the
trace header summary. Keep the filtered list for displaying logs; alternatively,
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Once a federated app has produced more than a few traces, it gets
hard to find one failed activity or one noisy log category by
scrolling. The traces list page gains a checkbox filter over the
activity types it already displays, and the trace detail page gains
a filter for its log table by category, level, and a case-insensitive
text search.

Both filters are plain GET forms, so they work without JavaScript and
keep selections in the URL. The trace list's existing live-poll
script now forwards the active filter to /api/traces so a filtered
view does not trigger a reload loop from comparing against an
unfiltered count.

The issue's suggestion to also filter by delivery status or request
path does not map to data the dashboard currently captures without
extending FedifySpanExporter in the main package, so this stays
scoped to what packages/debugger already has.

fedify-dev#896

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
Record the new filtering controls as a changes.d fragment under
@fedify/debugger, and sync it into CHANGES.md's unreleased section.

fedify-dev#896

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
CodeRabbit's review on the PR raised two points. Issue fedify-dev#896 asks for
tests that check the filtering behavior at the data boundary, not
only rendered HTML, but /api/logs/:traceId had no filter support, so
the log-filter tests could only assert on HTML. It now accepts the
same category/level/q parameters as the trace detail page and filters
before returning JSON, and a new test asserts on the parsed array.

Separately, the trace header showed the filtered log count with
nothing to say it excludes records outside the filter. It now shows
"N of M log records" whenever a filter is active.

fedify-dev#896

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
Fedify 2.4.0 was released upstream while this branch was open, which
moved the unreleased section to 2.5.0 and finalized the old one.
Re-run sacho sync against the new base so the fragment lands under
2.5.0 instead of the already-released 2.4.0, and add this PR's number
to the fragment's reference now that it exists.

fedify-dev#896

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
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Jae-Hyuk-Jang force-pushed the issue-896-debugger-filters branch from d4f1c87 to 1b944ee Compare October 1, 2026 07:03
@dahlia dahlia self-assigned this Oct 1, 2026
@dahlia dahlia added component/federation Federation object related component/otel OpenTelemetry integration component/testing Testing utilities (@fedify/testing) component/debugger Debugger related (@fedify/debugger) labels Oct 1, 2026
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Please address the inline comments. Could you also update the trace-detail screenshot to show the current N of M log records count?

import { Layout } from "./layout.tsx";

/** The fixed set of log levels the filter form offers, in severity order. */
const LOG_LEVELS = ["debug", "info", "warning", "error", "fatal"] as const;

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Could you use getLogLevels() from @logtape/logtape here? LogTape also supports trace, which this list omits. Trace-level logs are stored and can be filtered with ?level=trace, but users cannot select that level in the form. Using the API would keep the options in sync with the supported levels.

fetch(${
JSON.stringify(pathPrefix).replace(/</g, "\\u003c")
} + "/api/traces")
} + "/api/traces" + location.search)

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With Create selected, a newly captured Follow trace does not change the filtered count, so polling never reloads the page and the new Follow checkbox only appears after a manual refresh. Could you also detect changes to the available activity types when deciding whether to refresh, while keeping the active filter applied? Please add a regression test for this case.

sinkTwoDistinctLogs(dbg, traceId);

const request = new Request(
`https://example.com/__debug__/api/logs/${traceId}?level=error`,

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This test is named “filters by category, level, and text search”, but the request only supplies level=error. Could you add JSON API assertions for category, case-insensitive text search, and their AND combination as well? That would cover these filters at the data boundary, as requested in #896.

dahlia pointed out that the hardcoded level list omitted "trace",
which LogTape supports and the dashboard already stores and can
filter by (?level=trace worked, but the dropdown had no option for
it). getLogLevels() keeps the dropdown in sync with whatever levels
LogTape supports, in severity order, without us tracking it by hand.

fedify-dev#896

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
dahlia found that with a filter active, a newly captured trace of a
type outside that filter left the filtered count unchanged, so the
poll never reloaded and the new checkbox only appeared after a manual
refresh. The poll now always fetches the unfiltered trace list and
compares the total count together with the full set of activity
types across ticks, which also catches an existing trace gaining a
new type in place, something a count-only comparison would miss.
location.reload() keeps the active filter, since it reloads the same
URL.

There is no browser test harness in this repo, so the regression
tests extract the rendered <script> body and run it in a sandbox with
fake fetch/setInterval/location, then assert on whether reload() was
called across simulated ticks.

fedify-dev#896

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
dahlia pointed out that "filters by category, level, and text
search" only exercised level=error, so category, the text search,
and their AND combination were untested at the JSON boundary that
fedify-dev#896 asks for. Each now has its own test, matching the naming already
used for the HTML-rendered log filter tests.

fedify-dev#896

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
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Please address the inline comments. Could you also update the trace-detail screenshot to show the current N of M log records count?

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