Thanks Nick, that's nice and clear now. Do you know if there's any upper limit on the frequency with which logs can be downloaded?
Cheers, On Apr 16, 2:03 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Both are true: We keep 90 days of request logs, but only a fixed amount of > application logging. > > -Nick Johnson > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:11 PM, peterk <peter.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Ikai, thanks for the reply. > > > Are you sure about the 90 day thing? I was reading a thread here where > > Nick Johnson suggested it was a fixed buffer size: > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/... > > > In that case, the person asking seemed to be only able to keep 20 > > minutes of log data before old logs started to be overwritten (a busy > > site I guess!). > > > Has something changed? Could you check out what the case actually is? > > > If I might, I'd like to request if log related 'quotas' could be > > exposed and published, and expandable with money if possible! :) > > They're quite critical to an app I'm trying to plan, and while the > > current setup seems to be OK for my needs, the blindness to what's > > happening under the covers and what might happen going forward is a > > wee bit disconcerting. > > > Cheers, > > > On Apr 15, 6:48 pm, "Ikai L (Google)" <ika...@google.com> wrote: > > > The last time I checked, we guaranteed 90 days of logs regardless of > > size. > > > This is subject to change, however. I don't know what size we will set, > > but > > > like many of our other products, it'll likely start at a number we think > > is > > > reasonable based on overall usage and trend upward. > > > > Anything is possible with regards to billed features - we just can't give > > an > > > ETA unless it's explicitly stated on the roadmap. > > > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:27 PM, peterk <peter.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Reading some previous discussions and things alluded to therein, some > > > > questions cropped up. > > > > > I'm considering an application that quite fundamentally requires > > > > access to all its request logs. > > > > > So I guess I'd be recommended to use appcfg.py to periodically pull > > > > down the logs and append them to a txt file, or do whatever else I > > > > need to do to persist them. > > > > > In previous discussion I saw Google folks say that logs are stored in > > > > a circular buffer. Meaning if you had enough requests, they'd > > > > overwrite older requests. Meaning that if you had enough requests or > > > > were downloading the logs sufficiently infrequently, you might lose > > > > logs. > > > > > So question number 1: how big is the circular buffer for each > > > > application? > > > > > 2: Changes to that buffer size could detrimentally impact on my > > > > application if revised downward (silently in particular), so are there > > > > any guarantees that this buffer size won't be reduced in the future? > > > > > 3: Is there any possibility that this buffer could be exposed via the > > > > quota system so that an app could purchase a larger buffer size if it > > > > were helpful? > > > > > I'm flashing forward to a busy site and somewhat worrying about how > > > > frequently I'll have to download the logs, and whether it would be > > > > feasible to download them with a certain frequency anyway (e.g. if the > > > > log download time is quite long - as I've found it can be). Any > > > > answers or advice would be very welcome. 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