We're aware of the poor message that's in place. We'll be replacing this with, at the very least, a more accurate message soon. Our goal is transparency, and the new message will state that though it's not technically downtime, many users **are** experiencing downtime because the additional latency is significant enough such that web requests that make multiple datastore calls have a enough "tax" added to them that they trigger deadline exceeded exceptions.
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Jan Z/ Hapara <[email protected]>wrote: > Star this: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3726 > > The App Engine System Status frequently shows the following message: > --- > Investigation Complete - Issue Resolved > We have determined that this spike did not affect the performance or > uptime of applications. If you feel we have incorrectly diagnosed this > issue please inform us by posting in our developer forum. > --- > > We appreciate that this accurately conveys the diagnostics output on > the back end, and that the tools that generate these are (presumably) > largely automated, but the wording of this message really needs to be > improved. The text is simply not appropriate at times when the key > metric indicators are going red and apps are failing. > > The "feature" request asks that Google change the wording of this > message. By clicking on and "starring" the issue we can help Google > quantify the our collective frustration with this, and make it easier > to prioritize. > > (There is a larger issue here relating to what triggers this message > in the first place, and if it is appropriate to display this when the > indicators are going red and apps are failing...) > > J > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
