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No Data despite data existing in the buckets #998
Description
- I am on the latest ActivityWatch version.
- I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
- OS name and version: NixOS 23.05
- ActivityWatch version: 0.12.2 (rust)
Describe the bug
I'm missing data for a about 14 days.
I checked the JSON of my buckets: They do contain a bunch of events, which dont look mangled in any way.
The timeline view shows the data properly.
So yeah. Whats happening here?
To Reproduce
- have aw-qt in your autostart
- have modules enabled
- everything works for months
Expected behavior
Not losing data.
Documentation
Today: only half of todays events are tracked:
My example will be the 14th december.
No data for previous days:
Timeline works:
Activity
github-actions commentedon Dec 17, 2023
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BelKed commentedon Dec 17, 2023
Could you please try the latest beta version (
v0.12.3b15) to verify if the issue still occurs there?lucianosarno commentedon Jan 19, 2024
I have the same issue, and the latest beta version and my OS triggered a security alert.
wonka929 commentedon Jan 25, 2024
Look at my comment for this other Issue
#1006
mzfr commentedon Feb 13, 2024
I have been facing a similar issue. I just noticed that the dashboard for the last 5/6 days just says "No Data".
I've tried stopping and restarting the server but that didn't help. I even moved from version 0.12.2 to 0.12.3b16 but I still had the same issue.
OS name and version - Sonoma 14.2.1
Current Activity watch version - 0.12.3b16
shoaib281 commentedon May 15, 2024
Did you find a way to resolve this? @mzfr
mzfr commentedon May 19, 2024
@shoaib281 Nope. For some reason only the Browser Watcher is working so I can only see data in the "browser" tab of the Activity. But other than that the problem is still there for me, even on version v0.12.3b16
ErikBjare commentedon May 19, 2024
In both @AlexLJordan and @mzfr's timeline screenshots there's missing data. We need data from both aw-watcher-window and aw-watcher-afk to display the Activity view (although the AFK bucket filtering can be disabled in the "Filter" menu).
In @AlexLJordan's screenshot there's no aw-watcher-window bucket, so the watcher must have crashed. Simply restarting it would fix it. I'm considering better restart mechanics for watchers that crash to address this.
In @mzfr's screenshot the aw-watcher-afk and aw-watcher-window watchers don't have any overlapping data. Almost like one crashed and then the other was started. This might be a Sonoma problem (I'm still on macOS 13). Not sure what happened there.
Rubikoid commentedon Jun 13, 2024
Faced the same problem after update to
v0.13.1.Before update everything was ok.
Checking any previous day also leads to no data.
OS name and version - Sonoma 14.3.1.
No data on the main tab:
Only the editor tab works:
But buckets are filling properly:
Rubikoid commentedon Jun 13, 2024
Okay, I found a reason.
Sometimes, in some networks MacOS can change itself domain to ip/${name}.local.
I had main
rubi-mbp14AND arubi-mbp14.localbuckets.But due to usage of
find_bucketin web request (flood(query_bucket(find_bucket("aw-watcher-window_rubi-mbp14")));), instead ofaw-watcher-window_rubi-mbp14wasaw-watcher-window_rubi-mbp14.localmatchedWhich, of course, contains no data.
For me, I just removed all buckets, related to
rubi-mbp14.local, but I think this is a bug in web query builder.stale commentedon Jul 19, 2025
This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.
0xbrayo commentedon Oct 18, 2026
The root cause found by @Rubikoid has been fixed in ActivityWatch/aw-webui#760, which shipped in v0.14.0. If a host had buckets with similar names (e.g.
myhostandmyhost.local), the web UI'sfind_bucket()lookup could match the wrong bucket and show no data. The Activity view now queries the exact bucket ID when the hostname is known.@AlexLJordan could you update to the latest release and confirm whether this is resolved for you? We'll close this issue if we don't hear otherwise.
AlexLJordan commentedon Oct 21, 2026
I'm glad to hear a root cause was found! I moved PCs since this bug and somewhere across the migration my AW config seems to have busted, so I don't have any data recorded to check with the new release.
But I think the issue can be closed :)
Thanks for following up on this after so much time! I appreciate it. This repo and it's community are very admirable for that.