Sorry for the trouble, Amanda.  The problem is solely with the underlying
database, which we don't maintain.  It's a sanitized replica of all the
changes being made to all the wikis so it's a fairly complicated piece of
infrastructure that sometimes has problems.  The folks who maintain it are
aware of the issues, but we'll continue representing them until they're
solved.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Amanda Bittaker <abitta...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Oop, thanks for the ping, Nuria.  Wikimetrics seems to be working better
> now.  I still get failures, especially when running three or four reports
> in one batch, but the reports work if you rerun them (sometimes a couple
> times.)
>
> I'm still getting "PENDING"s that turn into "FAILURE"s sometimes, which I
> just noticed for the first time last Thursday.  Also, sometimes the
> "FAILURE"s change position in the Current Report Inbox list, moving up or
> down a spot.  Not sure if that helps diagnose what might be happening...
>
> In any case, Wikimetrics is mostly functioning but seems to be having
> recurring troubles that sometimes blow up to freeze the whole tool.  It
> would be great to resolve the troubles before the next explosion--is there
> anything I can do to help?  Dan H and I still have plenty of reports to
> run, we can keep you updated on the reports ran and failure rate while you
> are fixing, if that would be useful.
>
> Many thanks,
> Amanda
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Nuria Ruiz <nu...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Ping ....
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Nuria Ruiz <nu...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Amanda,
>>>
>>> Looks like wikimetrics was able to run automatic reports last night w/o
>>> big issues, are your reports still failing?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Nuria
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Amanda Bittaker <
>>> abitta...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alright, thanks so much for your help once again, Nuria.
>>>>
>>>> If there's anything I can do or any information I can contribute,
>>>> please don't hesitate to ping me.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Amanda
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Nuria Ruiz <nu...@wikimedia.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> DB connections in labs look to be failing, unfortunately  I think
>>>>> besides asking for help on the labs list there is not much we can do 
>>>>> there.
>>>>> I will start a thread on this regard.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Nuria
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Amanda Bittaker <
>>>>> abitta...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks so much for the quick response, Nuria.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I ran the exact same reports on the same cohort as one of the last
>>>>>> batches that were failing.  Last time 2/4 of the reports failed, when I
>>>>>> reran the individually they succeeded.  (But they don't always, I reran 
>>>>>> one
>>>>>> report 3 times this morning before it worked.)   This time, my failure 
>>>>>> rate
>>>>>> got worse:  4/4 failed, although they said "PENDING" for a few seconds
>>>>>> first, which is new.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is that useful information?  Please do let me know what else I can do
>>>>>> to help solve this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks again,
>>>>>> Amanda
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Jonathan Morgan <
>>>>>> jmor...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks Nuria!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Nuria Ruiz <nu...@wikimedia.org>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If so a cohort + report to repro will be most useful.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Translation:* try to run the exact same reports on the same cohort
>>>>>>> again, to see if the same metrics fail. Let us know what you find. ;)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Same goes for anyone else who experiences these issues: the more
>>>>>>> details we (users) can provide the engineers, the more effective they 
>>>>>>> can
>>>>>>> be at diagnosing and addressing the problems.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> - J
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *for anyone who is not 100% familiar with that hip, new software
>>>>>>> engineering lingo
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Nuria
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Dan Andreescu <
>>>>>>>> dandree...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Recently there was a restart of the labsdb cluster.  I'm sorry but
>>>>>>>>> I don't have time to check on it, but I bet that's the problem.  I'm 
>>>>>>>>> off
>>>>>>>>> tomorrow unfortunately but I'll try to check tomorrow night :(  I hope
>>>>>>>>> someone else beats me to it.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Jonathan Morgan <
>>>>>>>>> jmor...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> (ping Kevin and Dan A.)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Amanda, I've had some problems with report failures recently
>>>>>>>>>> when I ran a few test cohorts. On the same cohort, when I ran 
>>>>>>>>>> multiple
>>>>>>>>>> concurrent reports (say, bytes added, edits, and pages created), 
>>>>>>>>>> some would
>>>>>>>>>> fail and others succeed. It wasn't clear what the issue was.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> - J
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Amanda Bittaker <
>>>>>>>>>> abitta...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I am getting failures again, both when uploading cohorts and
>>>>>>>>>>> running reports.  Strangely, it seems the more reports you try to 
>>>>>>>>>>> run in
>>>>>>>>>>> one batch the less likely it is any report will succeed.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Is anyone else having these problems again?  Wonderful Analytics
>>>>>>>>>>> people, could you please work your magic again?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>> Amanda
>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> Jonathan T. Morgan
>>>>>>>>>> Community Research Lead
>>>>>>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>>>>>>> User:Jmorgan (WMF)
>>>>>>>>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>
>>>>>>>>>> jmor...@wikimedia.org
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Jonathan T. Morgan
>>>>>>> Community Research Lead
>>>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>>>> User:Jmorgan (WMF)
>>>>>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>
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