[Labs-l] Labs reliability

[Pine W]

OK. I was hoping to see a report or graph showing server uptime
percentages. I thought there was a way to do this.

Pine


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Alex Monk <krenair at gmail.com> wrote:

> icinga.wikimedia.org has private production data in, so is restricted to
> the following LDAP groups: ops, wmf, nda
>
>
> On 31 August 2014 22:15, Pine W <wiki.pine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info. I tried to access Labs info on icinga to see what
>>
>> that might show about Labs reliability information. I'm pretty sure that I
>>
>> was able to access icinga in the past. When I go to icinga.wikimedia.org
>> I
>>
>> am prompted for a username and password, and mine don't work. I can log
>>
>> into wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> Also, is there any place besides icinga that shows reliability data?
>> Perhaps
>>
>> I am thinking of a different tool.
>>
>>
>> Pine
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 30, 2014 10:25 PM, "Jeremy Baron" <jeremy at tuxmachine.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I have heard that Labs is an experimental envirionment, and service
>>> outages
>>> > and storage erasures are to be expected from time to time. What is the
>>> > recommended alternative to Labs for services that need good
>>> reliability like
>>> > bots?
>>>
>>> Tell us more about the use case you have in mind?
>>>
>>> is 48 hours of downtime per year too much? 24 hours?
>>>
>>> There is some redundancy built in to both labs and tool labs in
>>> particular. I would say typical services (including bots) should be
>>> configured either so that there's multiple copies running (on
>>> different hosts) so that it's not broken by the failure of a single
>>> host *or* configured so that it's restarted automatically if it dies
>>> or is not currently running.
>>>
>>> If you've encountered a problem the first step is to reconfigure your
>>> service to do one of those things.
>>>
>>> Documentation here is somewhat lacking. e.g.
>>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/ doesn't mention "bigbrother" at all.
>>>
>>> -Jeremy
>>>
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