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PSA: Google is notorious for blatantly lying about App Engine availability. Today’s yellow alerts and red exes, on the uptime/status page, somehow always become
by alanh 11y ago
PSA: Google is notorious for blatantly lying about App Engine availability. Today’s yellow alerts and red exes, on the uptime/status page, somehow always become yesterday's green checks.
(This was a first-hand source of frustration for the team I was working with a few years ago.)
You have been warned.
- crb 11y agoOn the contrary, check out https://status.cloud.google.com/summary https://status.cloud.google.com/summary. Serious incidents (eg https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/appengine/15019 https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/appengine/15019) include a full incident report, including root cause analysis,.
- jfoster 11y agoThere have been incidents that Google didn't acknowledge at all. There was one day where all sites using custom domains were redirected to Google.com for several hours, including their own Chrome Web Store. (which, I presume, runs on App Engine) It eventually resolved after a few hours, but both during & after the incident, there wasn't any public communication from Google. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/IIvw-WuBY2A https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/IIv... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/voRDhS3nS78 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/voR...
- alanh 11y agoWell I can certainly hope they upped the honesty factor. (My experience is from 2010 & 2011. If the page you linked to is indeed the new version of the one I recall — is there no standalone App Engine status page? — then it’s certainly be massively redesigned.)
- fizx 11y agoAWS is notorious about displaying outages as green (plus an "informational message"). I think we can assume that everyone games the numbers as hard as they think they can get away with.