You might want to take a look at the service that Apigee provides at apigee.com, Glenn.
Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/episod On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:21 AM, glenn gillen <gl...@rubypond.com> wrote: > On May 11, 4:45 am, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote: > > Now that we have a reasonable idea about what is transpiring, I'd > > venture to say that the latency distribution will be widest between > > about 6:30am to 10:30am PDT (13:30-17:30 UTC), and considerably less > > so until perhaps 5pm PDT. The balance of the day should be OK. > > At Warblecamp on the weekend someone (@mario) mentioned it would be > nice have a means of identifying (or at least being aware of) these > sorts of issues. And given the size of twitter these days and the > considerable usage of the API, there are so many variables that can > impact on performance differently for every user that it can be > difficult to know if a problem is isolated to your code or is > affecting a wide population. So floating an idea to promote some > further discussion and see if there is any interest, obvious issues > with the approach, input, etc. > > Would it be worthwhile having an independent service that allowed > developers to programmatically log their current API performance and > issues? For those that use Rails I'm thinking something along the > lines of rpm.newrelic but specifically twitter focussed. It could post > any 5xx error responses as they occur and regularly ping details about > the process usage (CPU utilization, RAM, etc.). In isolation they're > not very useful stats, in aggregation they'd help identify specific > areas suffering problems like "80% of our users in The Netherlands are > currently experiencing severe latency issues" or system wide issues > like a particular call failing, > > So would it be of any use? I'm not a consumer of the API anywhere near > the scale of Twitterfeed and so I don't currently see the same > requirement for such a service, I'm more inclined to believe if I have > a problem it's almost always mine to deal with. The great thing about > services like rpm.newrelic and hoptoad is that they give you > actionable information, and while I think this would be an interesting > technical challenge I wonder if it's actually providing users anything > actionable. > > Thoughts? > -- > Glenn Gillen > http://glenngillen.com/ >
