Hi Peter,

Both are true: We keep 90 days of request logs, but only a fixed amount of
application logging.

-Nick Johnson

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:11 PM, peterk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Ikai, thanks for the reply.
>
> Are you sure about the 90 day thing? I was reading a thread here where
> Nick Johnson suggested it was a fixed buffer size:
>
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/faa52812efdbeaaa/a22d1a02a97e95df?lnk=gst&q=appengine+logs+circular+buffer#a22d1a02a97e95df
>
> In that case, the person asking seemed to be only able to keep 20
> minutes of log data before old logs started to be overwritten (a busy
> site I guess!).
>
> Has something changed? Could you check out what the case actually is?
>
> If I might, I'd like to request if log related 'quotas' could be
> exposed and published, and expandable with money if possible! :)
> They're quite critical to an app I'm trying to plan, and while the
> current setup seems to be OK for my  needs, the blindness to what's
> happening under the covers and what might happen going forward is a
> wee bit disconcerting.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Apr 15, 6:48 pm, "Ikai L (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The last time I checked, we guaranteed 90 days of logs regardless of
> size.
> > This is subject to change, however. I don't know what size we will set,
> but
> > like many of our other products, it'll likely start at a number we think
> is
> > reasonable based on overall usage and trend upward.
> >
> > Anything is possible with regards to billed features - we just can't give
> an
> > ETA unless it's explicitly stated on the roadmap.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:27 PM, peterk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Reading some previous discussions and things alluded to therein, some
> > > questions cropped up.
> >
> > > I'm considering an application that quite fundamentally requires
> > > access to all its request logs.
> >
> > > So I guess I'd be recommended to use appcfg.py to periodically pull
> > > down the logs and append them to a txt file, or do whatever else I
> > > need to do to persist them.
> >
> > > In previous discussion I saw Google folks say that logs are stored in
> > > a circular buffer. Meaning if you had enough requests, they'd
> > > overwrite older requests. Meaning that if you had enough requests or
> > > were downloading the logs sufficiently infrequently, you might lose
> > > logs.
> >
> > > So question number 1: how big is the circular buffer for each
> > > application?
> >
> > > 2: Changes to that buffer size could detrimentally impact on my
> > > application if revised downward (silently in particular), so are there
> > > any guarantees that this buffer size won't be reduced in the future?
> >
> > > 3: Is there any possibility that this buffer could be exposed via the
> > > quota system so that an app could purchase a larger buffer size if it
> > > were helpful?
> >
> > > I'm flashing forward to a busy site and somewhat worrying about how
> > > frequently I'll have to download the logs, and whether it would be
> > > feasible to download them with a certain frequency anyway (e.g. if the
> > > log download time is quite long - as I've found it can be). Any
> > > answers or advice would be very welcome. Thanks!
> >
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