Time for a community-sourced Google App Status page?

[Mike Lawrence]

Hope this post doesn't get me in trouble with my Google friends, but
I've about had it with the Google App Engine System Status page.
   http://code.google.com/status/appengine

Yesterday my app was unreachable four times with 500 error pages,
but the System Status page above shows no issues.

Google Enterprise Support:
"I can confirm that we had a transient infrastructure issue that caused a temporary increase of latency that affected your application instances. This should now be fixed as traffic has been moved to different datacenters." 

I'd prefer Google fix/enhance their App Status page so we have more visibility to what's really going on.
But, It's probably not in Googles best interest since Amazon will likely use it against them for marketing FUD.

So, how about we build our own App Status page that transparently collects and reports app status?

We could:
1. build and publish source to a simple custom servlet that Java developers could add to their apps eg:
   http://appid.appspot.com/appstatus
   that returns json data that we can aggregate into a community-sourced system status page.
2. build an app engine site
    a. for registering your app engine URL and how often you want it tested
    b. viewing the current combined status of all sites
    c. polling the registered sites for status

We'd probably want to add an entity ("eg dual") that we could hit for testing db operations.

Thoughts?

[Felippe Bueno]

Sounds good.

+1

ps - I also had problems yesterday.

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[Tim Hoffman]

I too have problems with the status page.

Also I feel some different things should be monitored.

I would like to see startup time measured for a largish stack say django (not built in one, and I don't use django)

that would give an indication if slow imports (reading from filesystem) are killing things.

(Yesterday I had instance down for 2 hours, and the DeadlineExceeded almost always

occurred during import of custom libs)

Just my 2c worth

So that normal apps aren't polluted with extra stuff you could run a monitoring stack as a different version

so that can be kept seperate from your other instance stats.

Rgds

Tim

[James Broberg]

Frankly I never even look at or depend upon the Google App Engine
System Status. I monitor my individual apps using Pingdom and other
internal tools.

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