Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for the info.
I was accustomed to a small and probably less complex set of servers than Wikimedia has, and it is possible that the severs' acolytes were doing more than I knew about to keep the servers happy, but I notice that the number of Wikimedia Analytics trouble reports seems to be an order of magnitude greater than what I observed for network services in the place where I last worked in an IT department. I think the complexity and scale of the Wikimedia environment may be contributing factors, but I was wondering if there is more to the story, for example there may be inherently fragile tools used by WM Analytics. I am just curious.
Thanks,
Pine On Oct 12, 2014 6:02 PM, "Jeremy Baron" jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
On Oct 12, 2014 8:49 PM, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I've noticed in my time on this list that it seems like the reliability
of Wikimedia Analytics services is a bit spotty. I've worked in IT services, and our web and email servers' reliability seemed pretty good, comparable to the Wikimedia content delivery services.
Who is "our"?
Which services do you have in mind?
Some services (e.g. wikimetrics, reportcard) run on labs so they inherent the lower uptime expectations of labs vs. prod.
Some services were historically not very reliable but should soon be more reliable than they ever were before. (see footnote 1 at bottom of https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2014-October/002539.html ; subject=Adventures in Clusterland 2014-09-22--2014-09-28)
-Jeremy
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