Hi Albert, It is probably the best metric you can easily see. But keep in mind, that number also includes tasks. So, if your app makes use of lots of long-running tasks it could bias the number up (or, conversely, lots of super fast tasks could bias it down). Also, if your app's loading time is very long relative to the typical time it takes to serve a request the scheduler seems to prefer waiting for an existing instance to serve the request.
You'll know your app is scaling if you get new instances spun-up as traffic increases. If you start seeing lots of pending times in your logs, and/or a sudden spike in latency that could indicate an issue. Robert On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 08:03, Albert <albertpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks! > > I took a look at what you told me, and I think I prefer the instances > section. At least I only have to look at a few numbers as opposed to > summarizing all the request logs. > > To everyone else, is the instances section a good place to find > information on whether an app is qualified to autoscale or not? > > Thanks! > > On May 5, 6:05 pm, Fabs <lord.f...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello >> >> If you look in the logs section in the dashboard then select "All >> requests" you can see the request latency of each request. If you go >> to the instances section of the dashboard you can see the average >> request latency of each instance of your app. I wasn't aware of a >> limit on user-facing request times for scaling, but perhaps app engine >> is less willing to scale apps that respond slowly. At any rate, 800ms >> is a long time for most common web requests. If you're doing more than >> a second's worth of work such as complex datastore operations I would >> at least consider using the task queue. >> >> Regards. >> >> On May 5, 7:08 pm, Albert <albertpa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Hi! >> >> > Is it possible for me to know if my app is "qualified" to autoscale >> > just by looking at the values being displayed in the dashboard? >> >> > It currently gives info on CPU and API CPU average request times. >> > However, please correct me if I'm wrong, I remember that the measure >> > for autoscaling is that your user facing requests should stay below >> > 800 - 1000ms in response time (even if the CPU/API CPU is above >> > 1000ms). >> >> > If this is the case, can I tell just by looking at the dashboard if my >> > app is ok to autoscale or not? Or do I have to dig in to the logs and >> > use appstats to manually profile my app? >> >> > Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.