PieSocket Realtime Map & Kick API

Another Tuesday, another Pie.host update!
 

🌎 A More Detailed PieSocket Dashboard

The PieSocket dashboard now includes a world map showing active connections by location.

You can see where connections to your cluster are coming from at a glance, making it easier to understand your traffic distribution and identify where your users are connecting from.

We also expanded the dashboard's message analytics.

Previously, the dashboard showed a graph for total messages. It now separately tracks:

• 📤 Messages sent
• 📬 Messages delivered
• 📊 API publishes

This gives you more visibility into the flow of messages through your infrastructure instead of looking at a single aggregate number.

With the new API publish count graph, so you can see how frequently your applications are publishing messages through the PieSocket API.

🚀 REST API: Pagination for V4 Members

The PieSocket REST API can now paginate the list of members for the V4 protocol.

This is particularly useful for applications with larger numbers of members, where returning the entire list in a single API response isn't practical.

Pagination is opt-in, so existing integrations continue working as they do today. To enable it, send:

pagination=1

in the query parameters.

📚 PieSocket REST API documentation

🔌 Kick Members Through the API

We've also added APIs to close active member connections.

You can now kick:

• 👤 A single member
• 👥 All members

This is useful for operational scenarios where an active connection needs to be terminated immediately.

For example, if you rotate an API key, you may want to disconnect existing connections before allowing clients to reconnect with the new credentials. Similarly, if a user is banned, you can close their existing connection instead of waiting for it to disconnect naturally.

🛠️ Small Improvements

This week's changes are mainly focused on better visibility and operational control for PieSocket deployments, with the dashboard and REST API now providing more information and control over active connections.

Try the updated PieSocket dashboard and REST APIs to get more visibility and control over your realtime infrastructure.