fix(traces): cap captured body size to keep admin Traces UI responsive (#9946)

The trace middleware buffered the full request and response bodies for every
JSON exchange. With a chatty agent-pool RAG workload, /embeddings responses
(large vector arrays) accumulated to tens of MB in the in-memory buffer; the
admin Traces page would then download and parse 40+ MB on every load and on
every 5s auto-refresh, locking the UI in a loading state.

Add LOCALAI_TRACING_MAX_BODY_BYTES (default 64 KiB) that caps each captured
body. The full payload still flows through to the real client; only the
trace copy is bounded. Exchanges record body_truncated and original
body_bytes so the dashboard can show that truncation happened. The cap is
configurable via env, CLI, and runtime_settings.json.

Also unblock recovery: the Traces page now keeps the Clear button enabled
while loading, since "buffer too large to render" is exactly when the user
needs to clear it.


Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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LocalAI [bot]
2026-05-22 15:29:24 +02:00
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parent 0b2ae3c6ca
commit 61bf34ea2f
7 changed files with 212 additions and 19 deletions

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@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ type RunCMD struct {
LoadToMemory []string `env:"LOCALAI_LOAD_TO_MEMORY,LOAD_TO_MEMORY" help:"A list of models to load into memory at startup" group:"models"`
EnableTracing bool `env:"LOCALAI_ENABLE_TRACING,ENABLE_TRACING" help:"Enable API tracing" group:"api"`
TracingMaxItems int `env:"LOCALAI_TRACING_MAX_ITEMS" default:"1024" help:"Maximum number of traces to keep" group:"api"`
TracingMaxBodyBytes int `env:"LOCALAI_TRACING_MAX_BODY_BYTES" default:"65536" help:"Maximum bytes captured per request/response body in the trace buffer (0 = uncapped). Caps memory growth from chatty endpoints like /embeddings." group:"api"`
AgentJobRetentionDays int `env:"LOCALAI_AGENT_JOB_RETENTION_DAYS,AGENT_JOB_RETENTION_DAYS" default:"30" help:"Number of days to keep agent job history (default: 30)" group:"api"`
OpenResponsesStoreTTL string `env:"LOCALAI_OPEN_RESPONSES_STORE_TTL,OPEN_RESPONSES_STORE_TTL" default:"0" help:"TTL for Open Responses store (e.g., 1h, 30m, 0 = no expiration)" group:"api"`
@@ -273,6 +274,7 @@ func (r *RunCMD) Run(ctx *cliContext.Context) error {
opts = append(opts, config.EnableTracing)
}
opts = append(opts, config.WithTracingMaxItems(r.TracingMaxItems))
opts = append(opts, config.WithTracingMaxBodyBytes(r.TracingMaxBodyBytes))
token := ""
if r.Peer2Peer || r.Peer2PeerToken != "" {