Yes I will expand this, what I have seen in the application.
I monitored a few specific devices (VPN IP pinging, metrics being sent)
that remained *'Critical'* in the *List View (/admin/config/device/)* for
over 10 minutes. This is well beyond my *5-minute run_checks interval*. But
they were "OK" inside the "Detail VIew" page.
*The Test for specific device:*
1*. In list page: *The devices Health status showing* " Critical"*
2. *Before visiting the web page:* I checked the Python shell. The
database record for this device still showed status='critical'.
3.* During the visit:* I navigated to the device *Detail View* (
/change/). The status was showing *'OK'*
4. *After the visit:* I returned to the *List View*, and the status
was now *'OK'*. [Here is the catch for 1 and 4th point]
Based on my observations, the status seems to refresh only when
the detail page is opened manually. Is there another way to confirm this?
Regards,
logu
On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 4:06 AM 'Federico Capoano' via OpenWISP <
[email protected]> wrote:
> The health status turns to OK as soon as the device communicates with the
> server by sending a checksum request or it sends monitoring data, this
> triggers "device recovery detection", which makes the system execute
> monitoring checks again on the device.
>
> Opening the device details page has no effect on the device health status,
> the only difference it makes is that refreshing the page gets the latest
> information.
>
> So I am not really sure what problem you're pointing out.
>
> Do you care to expand?
>
> Best regards
> *Federico Capoano*
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> On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 at 01:49, Logunath K <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear team,
>> I am writing to report a potential synchronization
>> issue I've noticed in the OpenWISP2 dashboard regarding device health
>> statuses.
>>
>> *Issue Description:* In the main device list page, several devices are
>> showing a *"Critical"* status. However, when I click on an individual
>> device to view its overview page, the status correctly updates to *"OK."*
>>
>> Interestingly, once I navigate back to the list page, the status for that
>> specific device remains "OK." This suggests that the status is only being
>> refreshed when the device's detail page is manually visited.
>>
>> *Technical Evidence:* I have verified this discrepancy using the Python
>> shell. Even when a device is physically reachable, the DeviceMonitoring
>> model still reflects a stale "critical" status until the web interface
>> triggers an update:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *>>> from openwisp_monitoring.device.models import DeviceMonitoring>>> d
>> = DeviceMonitoring.objects.get(device__id='[DEVICE_UUID]')>>>
>> print(d.status)critical*
>>
>> I've inspected the Celery task logs; all background processes appear to
>> be running correctly without any reported failures.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> logu
>>
>>
>>
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