Need help: api/external/heartbeats usage

[griffith1deady]

Hi! I started creating simple application that will be something like wakatime-desktop, however, i can't figure how to get time tracking working.

I used that code for request sending:

proc sendHeartbeat() {.async.} =
  let httpSession = HttpSessionRef.new()
  let bodyJsonNode = %*{
    "timestamp": now().inZone(utc()).format("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:sszzz"),
    "project": "ziit-desktop",
    "language": "nim",
    "editor": "Zed",
    "os": "Linux",
    "file": "main.nim"
  }

  echo bodyJsonNode
  let requestResult = HttpClientRequestRef.post(
    httpSession, "<myinstance>/api/external/heartbeats", headers = [
      ("Content-Type", "application/json"),
      ("Authorization", fmt"Bearer {API_KEY}")
    ], body = $bodyJsonNode
  )

  if requestResult.isErr:
    echo "Error sending heartbeat:", requestResult.error
    return


  let request = requestResult.value()
  let response = await request.send()
  let content = await response.getBodyReader().read()
  echo string.fromBytes(content).parseJson()

(or here)

i send request every second, i tried make it once in 1.2 minutes like your Jetbrains plugin does - nothing changed

{"timestamp":"2025-09-20T00:24:04Z","project":"ziit-desktop","language":"nim","editor":"Zed","os":"Linux","file":"main.nim"}
{"success":true,"id":"cmfrckj0z01rpnv40hb8zizpg"}

i just don't undestand why time spended does not showing?
i run this application for like 60 minutes, but still:
screenshot
i see nothing...

[0PandaDEV]

Sending a request every second is excessive and not needed at all. The correct specification can be found here.

Also, I'm unable to view the screenshot, I get a 1011 Cloudflare Access Denied error.

[griffith1deady]

Also, I'm unable to view the screenshot, I get a 1011 Cloudflare Access Denied error.

Uh, i don't know why, on screenshot just empty dashboard.

[griffith1deady]

Problem more in that api says "ok" but nothing showed

[griffith1deady]

i get displaying but after like 4 hours.. is there a reason for it? do i need using another timezone? since i used utc, heartbeats sended at 00:00, but displaying at 04:00..

[griffith1deady]

my mistake, at 03:00* with my local time 00:00

[0PandaDEV]

Heartbeats should always bet sent using the UTC timestamp no matter what timezone the client is in. The calculations for the timezone happen on the dashboard.