diff --git a/dashboard/src/components/app/Graphs.vue b/dashboard/src/components/app/Graphs.vue
index 02c6c99c2..251e79d7f 100644
--- a/dashboard/src/components/app/Graphs.vue
+++ b/dashboard/src/components/app/Graphs.vue
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ async function liveRefresh() {
   metricStream.onmessage = (message) => {
     const data = JSON.parse(message.data);
 
+    // stop here if the DOM elements are already gone due to view change
+    if (!cpuGraphItem.value) return;
+
     cpuGraphItem.value.pushData(0, data[app.id].cpu);
     memoryGraphItem.value.pushData(0, data[app.id].memory);
     diskGraphItem.value.pushData(0, data[app.id].blockReadRate, data[app.id].blockWriteRate);
@@ -102,6 +105,9 @@ async function rebuild() {
       blockWriteTotal.value = prettyDecimalSize(metrics.blockWriteTotal);
   }
 
+  // stop here if the DOM elements are already gone due to view change
+  if (!cpuGraphItem.value) return;
+
   cpuGraphItem.value.setDatasets(datasets.cpu);
   memoryGraphItem.value.setDatasets(datasets.memory);
   diskGraphItem.value.setDatasets(datasets.disk);