diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index bf8d3c00df2d5..b407640880163 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -12493,6 +12493,7 @@ version = "0.4.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "61c5bb1d698276a2443e5ecfabc1008bf15a36c12e6a7176e7bf089ea9131140"
 dependencies = [
+ "async-compression",
  "bitflags 2.4.0",
  "bytes",
  "futures-core",
diff --git a/dashboard/lib/api/metric.ts b/dashboard/lib/api/metric.ts
index d40f92f405df1..1fabec81f94f4 100644
--- a/dashboard/lib/api/metric.ts
+++ b/dashboard/lib/api/metric.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
  *
  */
 import { Metrics, MetricsSample } from "../../components/metrics"
+import { GetBackPressureResponse } from "../../proto/gen/monitor_service"
 import api from "./api"
 
 export interface BackPressuresMetrics {
@@ -151,10 +152,11 @@ export const BackPressureInfo = {
 
 // Get back pressure from meta node -> compute node
 export async function fetchEmbeddedBackPressure() {
-  const response = await api.get("/metrics/fragment/embedded_back_pressures")
-  let backPressureInfos: BackPressureInfo[] = response.backPressureInfos.map(
-    BackPressureInfo.fromJSON
+  const response: GetBackPressureResponse = await api.get(
+    "/metrics/fragment/embedded_back_pressures"
   )
+  let backPressureInfos: BackPressureInfo[] =
+    response.backPressureInfos?.map(BackPressureInfo.fromJSON) ?? []
   backPressureInfos = backPressureInfos.sort((a, b) => a.actorId - b.actorId)
   return backPressureInfos
 }
diff --git a/dashboard/lib/api/streaming.ts b/dashboard/lib/api/streaming.ts
index 13fa8716f821a..5859c2df7e519 100644
--- a/dashboard/lib/api/streaming.ts
+++ b/dashboard/lib/api/streaming.ts
@@ -18,14 +18,10 @@
 import _ from "lodash"
 import sortBy from "lodash/sortBy"
 import { Sink, Source, Table, View } from "../../proto/gen/catalog"
-import { ActorLocation, TableFragments } from "../../proto/gen/meta"
+import { TableFragments } from "../../proto/gen/meta"
 import { ColumnCatalog, Field } from "../../proto/gen/plan_common"
 import api from "./api"
 
-export async function getActors(): Promise<ActorLocation[]> {
-  return (await api.get("/actors")).map(ActorLocation.fromJSON)
-}
-
 export async function getFragments(): Promise<TableFragments[]> {
   let fragmentList: TableFragments[] = (await api.get("/fragments2")).map(
     TableFragments.fromJSON
diff --git a/src/meta/Cargo.toml b/src/meta/Cargo.toml
index fcc3590bae8e2..1008af8e5fef2 100644
--- a/src/meta/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/meta/Cargo.toml
@@ -92,7 +92,12 @@ uuid = { version = "1", features = ["v4"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(not(madsim))'.dependencies]
 axum = "0.6"
-tower-http = { version = "0.4", features = ["add-extension", "cors", "fs"] }
+tower-http = { version = "0.4", features = [
+    "add-extension",
+    "cors",
+    "fs",
+    "compression-gzip",
+] }
 workspace-hack = { path = "../workspace-hack" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/src/meta/src/dashboard/mod.rs b/src/meta/src/dashboard/mod.rs
index 2156229db87a1..5e5a7476fa10c 100644
--- a/src/meta/src/dashboard/mod.rs
+++ b/src/meta/src/dashboard/mod.rs
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ use risingwave_rpc_client::ComputeClientPool;
 use thiserror_ext::AsReport;
 use tower::{ServiceBuilder, ServiceExt};
 use tower_http::add_extension::AddExtensionLayer;
+use tower_http::compression::CompressionLayer;
 use tower_http::cors::{self, CorsLayer};
 use tower_http::services::ServeDir;
 
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ pub(super) mod handlers {
     use risingwave_pb::catalog::table::TableType;
     use risingwave_pb::catalog::{Sink, Source, Table, View};
     use risingwave_pb::common::{WorkerNode, WorkerType};
-    use risingwave_pb::meta::{ActorLocation, PbTableFragments};
+    use risingwave_pb::meta::PbTableFragments;
     use risingwave_pb::monitor_service::{
         GetBackPressureResponse, HeapProfilingResponse, ListHeapProfilingResponse,
         StackTraceResponse,
@@ -175,30 +176,6 @@ pub(super) mod handlers {
         Ok(Json(views))
     }
 
-    pub async fn list_actors(
-        Extension(srv): Extension<Service>,
-    ) -> Result<Json<Vec<ActorLocation>>> {
-        let mut node_actors = srv
-            .metadata_manager
-            .all_node_actors(true)
-            .await
-            .map_err(err)?;
-        let nodes = srv
-            .metadata_manager
-            .list_active_streaming_compute_nodes()
-            .await
-            .map_err(err)?;
-        let actors = nodes
-            .into_iter()
-            .map(|node| ActorLocation {
-                node: Some(node.clone()),
-                actors: node_actors.remove(&node.id).unwrap_or_default(),
-            })
-            .collect::<Vec<_>>();
-
-        Ok(Json(actors))
-    }
-
     pub async fn list_fragments(
         Extension(srv): Extension<Service>,
     ) -> Result<Json<Vec<PbTableFragments>>> {
@@ -405,7 +382,6 @@ impl DashboardService {
 
         let api_router = Router::new()
             .route("/clusters/:ty", get(list_clusters))
-            .route("/actors", get(list_actors))
             .route("/fragments2", get(list_fragments))
             .route("/views", get(list_views))
             .route("/materialized_views", get(list_materialized_views))
@@ -465,7 +441,8 @@ impl DashboardService {
         let app = Router::new()
             .fallback_service(dashboard_router)
             .nest("/api", api_router)
-            .nest("/trace", trace_ui_router);
+            .nest("/trace", trace_ui_router)
+            .layer(CompressionLayer::new());
 
         axum::Server::bind(&srv.dashboard_addr)
             .serve(app.into_make_service())