Google App Engine Gets CloudStatus-Like Dashboard

I would like to issue a hearty congratulations to the App Engine team on their recent announcements of quota and dashboard improvements.  We work with many, many software teams, and out of them all, the App Engine team stands out as a bunch of folks excited about making web application development easier, and pushing the ball forward.

It is great to see the affirmation of our vision towards global application transparency being adopted by cloud providers.  Google has put itself on the right track, but there is much more work to be done.

Specifically, centralized management, alerting, and visualization of applications is important.  Many App Engine apps are built in a heterogenous fashion (reliant on external web-services or facilities), which requires a different type of dashboard to see all components side-by-side.  Hyperic HQ is able to pull application-specific metrics from App Engine and render them along-side data from the rest of your infrastructure.  Google’s interest is not in performance management across your infrastructure, but the metrics which they capture in their environment is exceptional, which is why we would call on them to make their dashboard data open and accessible via web-services.  Users with heterogenous applications must be easily able to correlate performance issues from different parts of their environment.

The next year is going to be very exciting for cloud platforms, and we’re proud to be among the essential tools that developers need.  Keep your eyes on cloudstatus.com next year — the cloud is about to get … less  cloudy.

– Jon

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