Notification of bot downtime

[Jason Salas]

I was thinking that something that might be cool, at least for the
time being, is a service that displays the status of the Google Wave
Robot (engine?), since bots in Wave seem to have some issues with
sustaining uptime. I was thinking of writing such a service as a
bot...but DUH! It'll be down, too. Seriously though, is there a
place in the GAE logs or definitive facility we can use to see the
status of the bot API?

Jas

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[Tal Rotbart]

Hi Jas,

Even with bot downtime, it shouldn't be a problem to build a
bot-downtime monitoring system. It would require two bots
participating in a wave:

1. 'Pong Bot' - which needs to be able to respond to any Wave event
with a timestamp written as a blip.
2. 'Ping Bot' - which upon a cron tick will attempt to modify a
wave(let). It should then listen to any change events and when the
other bot responds, update a 'last known good' timestamp.

This last-known-good timestamp should be publicly accessible and is a
good basis for any downtime monitoring system. Notification can be
done using appengine's own cron mechanism.

Cheers,
Tal

[Jason Salas]

good thoughts Tal! thanks!

[Sam Osborne]

Maybe write it as a gadget? Unless they go down too...

On 7 Aug 2009, at 00:02, Jason Salas <digitalpon...@gmail.com>
wrote: