Hi Ikai -

Just to be clear the issues have NOT subsided since last night.  I
hope you guys are working on eliminating the root of the problem and
not just "monitoring the service closely" as the latest App Engine
Notify post suggests.

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-downtime-notify/browse_thread/thread/9cf3b0cafdd6c235

And even though the status page says "this spike did not affect the
performance or uptime of applications" - every spike DOES in fact
affect the performance of applications (mine at least - GQueues, but
probably all apps).  These red spikes make my app inaccessible.  Even
the yellow spikes cause many 500 errors.  Basically this makes my app
unusable, because users can't get any consistent work done with the
frequent errors.

http://code.google.com/status/appengine/detail/datastore/2010/09/15#ae-trust-detail-datastore-get-latency

Most of all, the frequent errors make my app seem very brittle and
deteriorates user confidence.  Sales drop and my own forum gets lots
of complaints.  And then of course people start posting on Twitter.

Anyway, I'm sure you guys are working very hard to fix the issues and
want App Engine to be as reliable as possible.  My suggestion is that
you also look to improve communication during these times.  I have to
respond to my own users during these situations.  This becomes very
difficult when all I can tell them is "Google thinks the issue is
resolved and is just monitoring the situation" when clearly the status
graphs indicate otherwise and people can't access my app.  Or "Google
says the issue didn't affect performance or uptime" when clearly it
has.

-Cameron


On Sep 15, 6:13 am, Arny <[email protected]> wrote:
> We're still getting a lot of 500s (dashboard & front end).
>
> Did you transferred our apps to lower-cost servers or why is
> everything working that bad since the maintenance?
> When are the REAL paid services coming?
>
> On Sep 15, 6:17 am, "Ikai Lan (Google)" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Tim,
>
> > You can track the progress here:
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-downtime-notify/brows...
>
> > It's pretty hard to give an ETA, but we'd like to resolve this as soon as
> > possible. We're seeing signs that the issues may have subsided, but we'd
> > like a bit more confidence before giving the all clear.
>
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi
>
> > >http://groups.google.com.au/group/google-appengine-downtime-notify/br...
> > > was posted several hours ago, with no updates.
>
> > > I certainly am experiencing significant ongoing issues with taskqueues
> > > and datastore timeouts and half the time can't get to the dashboard.
>
> > > I know someone must be working hard on this, but a little more detail
> > > on progress, ie ETA to recovery would be really great
>
> > > Thanks
>
> > > Tim
>
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