Datastore Stats Are Crazy Wrong

[James Gilliam]

When I use Datastore Statistics from the dashboard it shows all
entities about 24,000

But when i click on each of the entities listed, it only totals about
1000

So, my question is ... what the hell are these other 23,000 entities
and why are they not listed ?

Do these phantom 23,000 entities have something to do with my 300,000
writes per day that I have no idea where they are coming from?

Please help.

Thanks

[Simon Knott]

Have you got sessions enabled? 

I believe (and it's a long time since I've used them) that if you have sessions enabled, they won't show up in the datastore viewer.  However, they do get written out to the datastore for replication out to your instances.

[Prateek Malhotra]

This can happen if you used to have a lot of entities and deleted them
and the statistics haven't updated yet to reflect the new number. Try
waiting a day to see what the new number is.

If you are referring to the estimated data store writes for your
application under the new pricing scheme, you should read
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/entities.html#Understanding_Write_Costs

I hope this helps!

[Jason Collins]

I've seen a similar thing and have been waiting many, many days
(weeks?).

I'm wondering if datastore stats are somehow measured over the raw
BigTable entities which don't actually get scraped up for a long
period of time.

If so, one would only really notice this discrepancy if they've done a
large number of deletions on an entity.

j

On Oct 4, 11:19 am, someone1 <someo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This can happen if you used to have a lot of entities and deleted them
> and the statistics haven't updated yet to reflect the new number. Try
> waiting a day to see what the new number is.
>
> If you are referring to the estimated data store writes for your

> application under the new pricing scheme, you should readhttp://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/entities.html#Un...

[James Gilliam]

This problem has been outstanding for many days, perhaps weeks ...

lol ... trying to see if the problem still exists today and getting
status 500 on gae dashboard ...

meanwhile ... gae upgrades are not working either ... and python just
got a big ? in gae status ...

rough day in gae-land