The use of this that is more important to me is doing sysadmin-work. I'm constantly checking my admin console throughout the day to make sure my error rate isn't high or that my taskqueues aren't backed up. If I could use an API to query this data and send problems to a pager it would really improve my life.
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Ikai L (Google) <[email protected]> wrote: > We've heard requests for a Dashboard API before. I can certainly see the > usefulness of being able to not just do read operations, but write > operations as well. Make sure to star the issue and get others to do it. > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Peter Recore <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> doesn't Google Analytics require JavaScript to be active on the >> client? If so, that would ignore hits from various categories of >> clients like people running no-script and agents making API calls >> through some kind of web service. i think it would also ignore >> internal requests, like from a cron job. >> >> On Apr 26, 10:03 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi Chris, >> > >> > Have you considered simply using Google Analytics? >> > >> > -Nick Johnson >> > >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Chris Killpack <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > > I recently discovered that I had become a human cron-job: every night >> > > around 11:50pm PST I would log into the GAE dashboard, total the >> > > number of >> > > requests in my app and store them in a spreadsheet so I could track >> > > load >> > > over time. >> > >> > > I've found no mention of a dashboard API, which leaves scraping the >> > > HTML. This is non trivial because I have to deal with the Account >> > > login >> > > page, which I expect goes out of it's way to make auto login's hard. I >> > > thought about hard-coding the relevant cookies into the cron job, >> > > generating >> > > new ones by manual login every time the existing ones fail. But it >> > > appears >> > > the relevant cookies only last 24 hours, so I'm back to my nightly >> > > routine. >> > >> > > Is there another way to retrieve this info, and if not, are there >> > > plans for >> > > such a mechanism? I've found an open issue: >> > >> > >> > > >http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=655&can=5&c... >> > >> > > Thanks, >> > >> > > Chris >> > >> > > -- >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > > Groups >> > > "Google App Engine" group. >> > > To post to this group, send email to >> > > [email protected]. >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > > >> > > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> >> > > . >> > > For more options, visit this group at >> > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > >> > -- >> > Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine Google Ireland >> > Ltd. :: >> > Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: 368047 >> > Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration >> > Number: >> > 368047 >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "Google App Engine" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected]. >> > For more options, visit this group >> > athttp://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 [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Relations, Google App Engine > Twitter: http://twitter.com/ikai > Delicious: http://delicious.com/ikailan > ---------------- > Google App Engine links: > Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine > Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
