Hi all,
since one of the last upgrades one or two weeks ago the new posts statistics on the dashboard is broken here. It does not show anything anymore. Is this a problem just for me or a common bug? I did not find anything through search here.
Regards
Sorry, can you clarify, are you saying these graphs are not working?
When did you update your instance last, can you update it now?
Sorry for being unclear, here is a screenshot:
I updated this evening to 05685d430f.
If I recall right, it is for about one of two weeks now, I upgrade every five days per so at the moment.
And yeah, not much traffic at the moment, but we have new posts. 
I also clicked and chose the year since today. Nothing there either.
The first thing that springs to mind is “not enough data”, but let me mention this to the staff xp team who can help debug.
Thank you! Another screenshot, where you can see that there are new topics. So there must be new posts, too. At least as many as topics (but for sure it’s more than that here ).
If you go to the full report page at https://YOURSITE.COM/admin/reports/posts?end_date=2025-02-17&start_date=2025-01-17 can you get it to show you any data, adjusting the dates/filters? Do you see any errors in the logs at https://YOURSITE.COM/logs or in the Chrome DevTools Network tab when loading this page or the dashboard?
No, everything is empty there, too. I can also adjust start and end dates, not change.
No, none. Just some deprecation notices, not related to the stats (according to the time).
Indeed, there are errors. When I load the page, it’s 9, getting more after time.
Does this help? Shall I copy-paste (text) one/all of these errors?
Indeed, I have encountered this situation as well.My community also fails to display the correct post count.
Not correct or nothing at all like here?
Did a little research, it seems like the domQueryService errors are from the Bitwarden Chrome extension, they are unlikely to cause issues. The mini-profiler errors can be ignored.
The fingerprint-report error is from GitHub - discourse/discourse-fingerprint: A plugin that computes user fingerprints to help administrators combat internet trolls., and while it is an issue that we need to fix it doesn’t seem to prevent the Posts report from loading for me locally.
That body_tag_1.js file other people seem to have issues with sometimes on Discourse Lost ability to scroll through HA community site - community-feedback - Home Assistant Community . Do you have any Adblockers? If so try disabling them. If not or that doesn’t work, try enabling Safe Mode Using Safe Mode to troubleshoot issues with themes and plugins and seeing if you can load the page, if you can that would indicate a plugin or theme issue.
Finally, try loading the JSON for the report and see if you get any results here:
I have, what’s already in Opera, which is the browser I am using on the computer. I also use Pi-hole with several blocklists.
But: These problems also occur on my iPad in the Discourse app and in other networks, including mobile data. So no ad blockers or anything like that.
I can, but not today anymore.
Sure:
{"reports":[{"type":"posts","title":"Beiträge","xaxis":"Tag","yaxis":"Anzahl neuer Beiträge","description":"Neue Beiträge, die in dieser Zeit erstellt wurden","description_link":null,"data":[],"start_date":"2025-01-18T00:00:00Z","end_date":"2025-02-18T23:59:59Z","prev_data":null,"prev_start_date":"2024-12-17T00:00:00Z","prev_end_date":"2025-01-18T00:00:00Z","prev30Days":null,"dates_filtering":true,"report_key":"reports:posts:20250118:20250218:[:prev_period]:50:4","primary_color":"rgba(113,184,254,1)","secondary_color":"rgba(113,184,254,0.1)","available_filters":[{"id":"category","type":"category","default":null}],"labels":[{"type":"date","property":"x","title":"Tag"},{"type":"number","property":"y","title":"Anzahl"}],"average":false,"percent":false,"higher_is_better":true,"modes":["chart","table"],"prev_period":0,"limit":50}]}
As this does not show anything, if I read this right, does the safe mode make sense?
Okay thank you, that is helpful and it indicates that the data itself is missing, and not that there is some error on the frontend 
The SQL query that backs this report is fairly simple, if you have access to Data Explorer or directly to your DB you can try running and tweaking this and see if it will give you any data:
SELECT
COUNT(*) AS "count_all",
date(posts.created_at) AS "date_posts_created_at"
FROM
"posts"
INNER JOIN "topics" ON "topics"."deleted_at" IS NULL
AND "topics"."id" = "posts"."topic_id"
WHERE
"posts"."deleted_at" IS NULL
AND (
topics.archetype <> 'private_message'
)
AND (
posts.created_at >= '2025-02-01'
AND posts.created_at <= '2025-02-28'
)
AND "posts"."post_type" = 1
GROUP BY
date(posts.created_at)
ORDER BY
date(posts.created_at)
And here is the report code itself:
I’m afraid it’s kind of tricky to debug this further without having access to your site so I can dig around the database.
The query in Data Explorer comes back with data:
Sorry Roi, this got a bit lost in the cracks. I guess there must be something wrong with the report code itself? discourse/app/models/concerns/reports/posts.rb at 8596aa34c46071eb42ffbb9e19ad733d1765578e · discourse/discourse · GitHub .
Do you have access to the rails console of your site? If so try this and see if it gives you any data:
Report.find("posts", start_date: 4.weeks.ago, end_date: Time.zone.now).data
This will also output the SQL queries it runs, so might be some further clues there.
No worries! It does not look perfect on the admin dashboard, but it is not that critical like other bugs.
Yes.
Hm, was I doing this right?
root@prometheus-discourse-sidemount:/var/www/discourse# rails c
Plugin name is 'discourse-docs', but plugin directory is named 'discourse-knowledge-explorer'
Plugin name is 'discourse-user-notes', but plugin directory is named 'discourse-staff-notes'
[1] pry(main)> Report.find("posts", start_date: 4.weeks.ago, end_date: Time.zone.now).data
=> []
[2] pry(main)>
The answer is empty. That would explain the empty box on the admin dashboard. But your wrote that there should be an SQL statement in the answer as well?
Ah sorry maybe I only saw it because I was running it locally. Try this:
MethodProfiler.output_sql_to_stderr!
Report.find("posts", start_date: 4.weeks.ago, end_date: Time.zone.now).data
You will get a lot more noise of queries now, but the last few queries will be the ones from the report:
Okay, a lot more noise. Is this what you are looking for or do you need more from above?
debugsql (sql): SELECT COUNT(*) AS "count_all", date(posts.created_at) AS "date_posts_created_at" FROM "posts" INNER JOIN "topics" ON "topics"."deleted_at" IS NULL AND "topics"."id" = "posts"."topic_id" WHERE "posts"."deleted_at" IS NULL AND (topics.archetype <> 'private_message') AND NOT ((topics.category_id IN (NULL))) AND (posts.created_at >= '2025-02-03 06:00:45.160432' AND posts.created_at <= '2025-03-03 06:00:45.160586') AND "posts"."post_type" = 1 GROUP BY date(posts.created_at) ORDER BY date(posts.created_at)
debugsql (sec): 0.001
debugsql (sql): SELECT "category_custom_fields"."category_id" FROM "category_custom_fields" WHERE "category_custom_fields"."name" = 'private_topics_enabled'
debugsql (sec): 0.0
debugsql (sql): SELECT COUNT(*) FROM "posts" INNER JOIN "topics" ON "topics"."deleted_at" IS NULL AND "topics"."id" = "posts"."topic_id" WHERE "posts"."deleted_at" IS NULL AND (topics.archetype <> 'private_message') AND NOT ((topics.category_id IN (NULL))) AND "posts"."post_type" = 1
debugsql (sec): 0.0
debugsql (sql): SELECT COUNT(*) FROM "posts" INNER JOIN "topics" ON "topics"."deleted_at" IS NULL AND "topics"."id" = "posts"."topic_id" WHERE "posts"."deleted_at" IS NULL AND (topics.archetype <> 'private_message') AND NOT ((topics.category_id IN (NULL))) AND "posts"."post_type" = 1 AND (posts.created_at >= '2025-01-04 06:00:45.160432' and posts.created_at < '2025-02-03 06:00:45.160432')
debugsql (sec): 0.0
debugsql (sql): COMMIT
debugsql (sec): 0.0
=> []
Yes that is what I need 
The part that jumps out at me is AND NOT ((topics.category_id IN (NULL))); I don’t have that in the query I show in the screenshot above. This would exclude all topics without a category from the count, which depending on your forum setup could be a lot?
I’m not seeing in the code where that comes from. Next step I would try doing this in Data Explorer:
SELECT
COUNT(*) AS "count_all",
date(posts.created_at) AS "date_posts_created_at"
FROM
"posts"
INNER JOIN "topics" ON "topics"."deleted_at" IS NULL
AND "topics"."id" = "posts"."topic_id"
WHERE
"posts"."deleted_at" IS NULL
AND (
topics.archetype <> 'private_message'
)
AND (
posts.created_at >= '2025-02-03 06:00:45.160432'
AND posts.created_at <= '2025-03-03 06:00:45.160586'
)
AND "posts"."post_type" = 1
GROUP BY
date(posts.created_at)
ORDER BY
date(posts.created_at)
(I removed the AND NOT clause here), and seeing if you get any result. If I run this locally I get:
count_all | date_posts_created_at
-----------+-----------------------
1 | 2025-02-03
8 | 2025-02-04
7 | 2025-02-05
1 | 2025-02-06
7 | 2025-02-12
4 | 2025-02-26
Whereas if I keep the category_id clause your queries are showing I get no data.
Yeah I’m really not sure 
Long shot but it could possibly be a plugin adding/modifying something? 
What plugins do you use? The first query above (the one with count_all) comes from here:
If just calling this in the console still adds that category_id IN (NULL) clause, then something is very weird:
Post.public_posts_count_per_day(4.weeks.ago, Time.zone.now)