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perf(agent-sessions): rank the list page first, then net its sessions alone - #1199

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Problem

After #1197 the Agent Sessions list loads for orgs with long agent runs, but:

  • "Load more" still fails: the second page (OFFSET 50) hits MEMORY_LIMIT_EXCEEDED at the list profile's 1.5 GB.
  • The first page takes 5–6 s, and the sidebar distributions 7–8 s.

Cause: aiSessionsPage nets usage (ancestor climb + claims) for every trace of the caller's window before it cuts the page to 50 sessions. Cost and memory grow with the window, not with the page.

Change

Rank, then read (default sort and every sort/filter except cost, tokens, model calls):

  1. aiSessionRankQuery — which sessions are on the page, over the caller's window. Only the ranking columns; none of the usage SQL is in the text.
  2. aiSessionPageQuery({ sessionIds }) — the rows of those sessions, over the page's own extent (fanOutStart/fanOutEnd, the same convention /details uses). Other sessions inside the bounds are dropped in the per-trace HAVING, before anything is netted.

A sort or filter on usage still needs every session netted, so it stays one read.

Integer span keys: the netting compares span ids as 63-bit cityHash64 values instead of strings. Its lookups are sorts, so this is most of their cost.

Measurements

Local ClickHouse, synthetic org: 1.46M index rows, 75k traces, 420 sessions over 7 days, 4 threads.

Read Before After
List, page 1 870 ms, 760 MB rank 52 ms / 33 MB + rows 320 ms / 78 MB
List, page 2 890 ms, 890 MB rank 32 ms / 27 MB + rows 263 ms / 92 MB
Distributions 1,274 ms, 749 MB 906 ms, 481 MB
List sorted by cost 1,608 ms, 896 MB 1,002 ms, 571 MB

Production (our own org, 7 days, interactive profile): the rank query runs in 70 ms.

Verification

  • New e2e case: rank + ranked read returns the same rows as the single read, across orgs, offsets and a duration sort.
  • Integer keys: row-for-row equal to main on randomized span trees where netting changes the totals (3,986 raw calls → 2,270).
  • ai-trace-index-materialization + ai-tools ClickHouse e2e: 23/23. Catalog analyzer sweep + list handler tests: 457/457. query-engine-integrations: 446/446 (SQL baseline regenerated, two fixtures added). MCP agent-sessions tests: 16/16.

Notes

  • The list is now two warehouse round trips on the common path; self-traces show them as aiSessionsRank and aiSessionsPage.
  • Sessions with more than 2,000 usage reporters are still capped, and which 2,000 are kept is not deterministic, so their totals can differ between loads. Not introduced here; it shows on orgs with very long sessions.
  • The rank query still scans the whole window. If that scan becomes the bottleneck, the next step is a session-keyed rollup.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Improvements
    • AI session lists can load more efficiently when filtering and sorting by supported fields, while preserving page order and results.
    • Sorting by usage measures continues to use the appropriate loading path.

… alone

The list read netted every trace of the caller's window to show one page, so
its cost and memory grew with the window: seconds per load for an org with
long agent runs, and past the list profile's memory on a later page.

Where the index can rank the page (every sort and filter but those on cost,
tokens and model calls), the list is now two reads: aiSessionRankQuery picks
the page's sessions over the window with none of the usage SQL, and
aiSessionPageQuery reads those sessions over the page's own extent, filtered
per trace before anything is netted. A usage sort or filter still nets every
session in one read.

The netting compares span ids as 63-bit hashes instead of strings, which is
most of what its lookups sort: the reads that still net everything
(distributions, usage sorts) take about a quarter less time and a third less
memory.
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🟡 Confidence 3/5 · needs attention
The new ranked read's upper bound can count spans that started after the requested window, so the list's numbers depend on the sort near a window edge.
quality 90/100 · 1 warning · tests covered · risk medium · 2/2 new units observable

The Agent Sessions list is split into a rank read over the window and a page read over the ranked page's own extent, and the usage netting now compares span ids as 63-bit hashes. The split and the rekey are faithful; one window-boundary case in the new bounds needs a fix.

  • aiSessionRankQuery ranks and cuts the page off the index alone
  • aiSessionPageQuery({ sessionIds }) reads those sessions over fanOutStart/fanOutEnd
  • Usage netting compares span ids as 63-bit cityHash64 keys

Findings

🟠 Warning · F1 · Ranked page read counts spans that start after the caller's endTime

correctness · packages/backend/src/services/ai-sessions/ai-session-reads.ts:234

fanOutEnd is the latest span end among the ranked rows, but it bounds the index on span start (Timestamp <= fanOutEnd, ai-sessions.ts:552), so a span of a page session that starts after the caller's endTime is counted in the row, where the one-read path (every usage sort and filter) excludes it. The same list then reports different totalTokens/cost/traceCount/agentDurationMs depending on the sort, a durationMaxMs filter can admit a row whose displayed duration is past it, and a historical window (yesterday 00:00–23:59) shows usage that belongs outside it.

Bound the read's upper end by the caller's window, e.g. `fanOutEnd: payload.endTime` (or clamp the max of `agentEnd` down to it). The page's earliest `agentStart` is never before `startTime`, so `fanOutStart` can stay as it is.
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F1 · Warning · correctness · packages/backend/src/services/ai-sessions/ai-session-reads.ts:234
Ranked page read counts spans that start after the caller's `endTime`
`fanOutEnd` is the latest span **end** among the ranked rows, but it bounds the index on span **start** (`Timestamp <= fanOutEnd`, `ai-sessions.ts:552`), so a span of a page session that starts after the caller's `endTime` is counted in the row, where the one-read path (every usage sort and filter) excludes it. The same list then reports different `totalTokens`/`cost`/`traceCount`/`agentDurationMs` depending on the sort, a `durationMaxMs` filter can admit a row whose displayed duration is past it, and a historical window (yesterday 00:00–23:59) shows usage that belongs outside it.
Suggested fix: Bound the read's upper end by the caller's window, e.g. `fanOutEnd: payload.endTime` (or clamp the max of `agentEnd` down to it). The page's earliest `agentStart` is never before `startTime`, so `fanOutStart` can stay as it is.
What was checked
  • Integer keys are consistent end to end — sumMap keys, needles, intDiv(t, 2) (ai-span-columns.ts:143, :183, ai-span-columns.test.ts:60)
  • The per-trace HAVING on sessionKey drops other sessions inside the bounds, and OrgId is still filtered (ai-sessions.ts:550, :559)
  • An empty rank returns before the second read, so reduce never runs on an empty array (ai-session-reads.ts:224)
Observability coverage: 2 of 2 changes observable
Change Kind Observable Evidence
aiSessionRankQuery warehouse read (list page, first of two) outbound yes ai-session-reads.ts:219 compiledQuery with { profile: "list", context: "aiSessionsRank" }
aiSessionPageQuery ranked read (list page, second of two) outbound yes ai-session-reads.ts:207 compiledQuery with context "aiSessionsPage"

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AI-session listing now uses a rank-then-page query path when the index can rank the requested page. Usage-link IDs and SQL fixtures also change from prefixed strings to numeric hash keys.

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AI session reads

Layer / File(s) Summary
Numeric usage-link keys
packages/query-engine-integrations/src/ai/ai-span-columns.ts, packages/query-engine-integrations/src/ai/ai-span-columns.test.ts, packages/query-engine-integrations/src/__sql_baseline__/integrations.sql
Span and parent IDs use numeric hash keys. Token and cost links have distinct low-bit values, and ancestor IDs are recovered by integer division.
Ranked session-page queries
packages/query-engine-integrations/src/ai/ai-sessions.ts, packages/query-engine-integrations/src/ai/ai-sessions.test.ts, packages/query-engine-integrations/src/ai/index.ts, packages/query-engine-integrations/src/benchmark/index.ts, packages/query-engine-integrations/src/__sql_baseline__/integrations.sql
Page planning identifies when the index can rank a page. The rank query returns paged session IDs and agent bounds. The page query can use those results without applying pagination or ranking filters again.
Backend rank-then-page flow
packages/backend/src/services/ai-sessions/ai-session-reads.ts, apps/api/src/routes/internal/ai-sessions.http.test.ts, packages/backend/src/services/warehouse/ai-trace-index-materialization.clickhouse.e2e.test.ts
The backend performs a rank read followed by a bounded page read when supported. It skips the second read if ranking returns no sessions. Tests cover the two-read path and the usage-sort single-read path.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant API
  participant listAiSessions
  participant aiSessionRankQuery
  participant aiSessionPageQuery
  participant ClickHouseIndex
  API->>listAiSessions: Request session list
  listAiSessions->>aiSessionRankQuery: Build ranked page query
  aiSessionRankQuery->>ClickHouseIndex: Read session IDs and agent bounds
  ClickHouseIndex-->>listAiSessions: Return ranked sessions and bounds
  listAiSessions->>aiSessionPageQuery: Build bounded page query
  aiSessionPageQuery->>ClickHouseIndex: Read session details
  ClickHouseIndex-->>API: Return session rows
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Comment thread packages/backend/src/services/ai-sessions/ai-session-reads.ts
The page's upper bound was where its last span ended, applied to where spans
start, so a span that started after the caller's endTime and before that
point was counted in the row though the ranking never saw it. The ranked read
now also keeps to Timestamp <= endTime; the e2e compares both reads over a
window that ends inside a turn.
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🟢 Confidence 4/5 · likely safe to merge
The delta is a single clamp on the ranked page read, every production caller of that path passes endTime, and the unit, HTTP and ClickHouse e2e tests pin it.
quality 100/100 · no findings · tests covered · risk medium · 2/2 new units observable

The delta since the last review clamps the ranked page read to the caller's endTime, so a span that starts past the window is no longer netted. The clamp is wired through the one production caller and covered by tests; safe to merge.

  • indexTracesOf adds Timestamp <= endTime whenever sessionIds is set (ai-sessions.ts:554)
  • listAiSessions threads payload.endTime into the ranked page's PageBounds (ai-session-reads.ts:240)
  • e2e adds a window ending inside a turn to prove rank and single read agree
  • SQL baselines and the ranked benchmark fixture carry the new bound

Fixed since the last review

  • ✅ F1 · Ranked page read counts spans that start after the caller's endTime
What was checked
  • F1: the ranked read is bounded by Timestamp <= endTime (ai-sessions.ts:554, baseline SQL line 845)
  • Both indexTraces(..., "page") callers leave sessionIds undefined, so the details reads are untouched (ai-sessions.ts:967)
  • aiSessionRankQuery still scans the window only (ai-sessions.ts:864)
Observability coverage: 2 of 2 changes observable
Change Kind Observable Evidence
aiSessionsRank warehouse read database query yes context: "aiSessionsRank"; WarehouseQueryService.test.ts:1387 asserts one database span per compiledQuery
aiSessionsPage warehouse read (ranked path) database query yes context: "aiSessionsPage" (ai-session-reads.ts:214), row count annotated as maple.ai.page_size

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