On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Jennifer Kay <[email protected]> wrote:
> My apologies if this is posted twice - I thought I posted it once but > can't find it … > > I want to quantify how activity on my MOOC<https://cs4hsrobots.appspot.com/> > has > varied over time and I'm wondering if any of you can answer the following > question: > Short version: > > Is the number of Frontend Instance Hours that my MOOC uses (as shown on my > daily app-engine usage report) directly proportional to the amount of > "activity" on my MOOC? > > - If so, can you help me understand what this quantity represents (so > I believe your answer :-) > - If not, is there some other easy-to-aquire data that I could use as > a metric? > > No. Frontend instance hours aren't proportional to usage except in very limited cases. For instance, it's entirely possible to have multiple frontend hours billed even if there are no users currently using your application (ex: cron jobs, tasks, resident instances on standby). You asked for an explanation, so: Frontend instance hours represent CPU/RAM space and time being used. Any other service (datastore, logs, etc) are billed separately. You are correct in that frontend instance hours are spent in response to user requests, but they are also used up in response to cron, tasks, or other automated responses. As for a better metric, I would suggest using the logging data. You can move your logging data into Google BigQuery ( http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/07/analyzing-your-google-app-engine-logs.html), and split up your traffic by incoming IP address, time, user-agent information, etc and see what your users are doing and where they're coming from. ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Advisor Chicago, IL App Engine Code Samples: http://www.learntogoogleit.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
