Having added >10k hosts to kolide fleet the hosts/manage page often pops up with "It's Kinda Lonely In Here..." when it seems to timeout fetching host information. Is this a known limitation with the web UI or is there something that can be tuned to improve page load speed? The call that seems to be really slow is to api/v1/kolide/hosts. Any thoughts please?

Yeah, it's a well-known problem. I have a fix for it that I worked on with a client and trying to get through the final steps to contributing those back upstream.

ah, ok, the error I see in chrome is net::ERR_INCOMPLETE_CHUNKED_ENCODING after about ~20MB of downloading

Yeah... It tries to download the entire set of hosts. The new fix implements pagination on the frontend (backend already supported it).

the hosts manage page seems to have pagination but I guess it grabs all the results then paginates instead of just grabbing what it needs for page 1.

Correct

Is it worth pursuing our own fork on this or is the upstream merge fairly imminent?

Imminent

well, that's great news, thanks!

Yeah, I'll be quite pleased to get these changes out! I know lots of folks are struggling with perf issues.

is there some timeout that can be trivially increased in the meantime that makes it slow but eventually work?

Possibly. I'm not sure where in the stack it would be timing out.

I assume some kind of total request time timeout