Uptime Report for my Live OakLeaf Systems Azure Table Services Sample Project: January 2012
My live OakLeaf Systems Azure Table Services Sample Project demo runs two small Windows Azure Web role instances from Microsoft’s South Central US (San Antonio, TX) data center. Here’s its uptime report from Pingdom.com for January 2012:
Following is detailed Pingdom response time data for the month of January 2012:
This is the eighth uptime report for the two-Web role version of the sample project. Reports will continue on a monthly basis.
| Month | Year | Uptime | Downtime | Outages | Response Time |
| January | 2012 | 100.00% | 00:00:00 | 0 | 773 ms |
| December | 2011 | 100.00% | 00:00:00 | 0 | 765 ms |
| November | 2011 | 99.99% | 00:05:00 | 1 | 708 ms |
| October | 2011 | 99.99% | 00:04:59 | 1 | 720 ms |
| September | 2011 | 99.99% | 00:05:00 | 1 | 743 ms |
| August | 2011 | 99.98% | 00:09:57 | 2 | 687 ms |
| July | 2011 | 100.00% | 00:00:00 | 0 | 643 ms |
| June | 2011 | 100.00% | 00:00:00 | 0 | 696 ms |
The Azure Table Services Sample Project
See my Republished My Live Azure Table Storage Paging Demo App with Two Small Instances and Connect, RDP post of 5/9/2011 for more details of the Windows Azure test harness instance.
I believe this project is the oldest continuously running Windows Azure application. I first deployed it in November 2008 when I was writing Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform for Wiley/WROX, which was the first book published about Windows Azure.
The application runs the default set of Windows Azure Diagnostics. About 5 GB of Event Counter data provide the source data for my Generating Big Data for Use with SQL Azure Federations and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Clusters post of 1/8/2012.
For more details about the Table Services Sample project or to download its source code, visit its Microsoft Pinpoint entry. Following are Pinpoint listings for three other related OakLeaf sample projects, two of which are live in the South Central US data center:
- Microsoft Codename "Data Explorer" Mashup with "Social Analytics" Data (1/24/2012, live)
- Microsoft Codename “Social Analytics” WinForms Client Sample (11/22/2011)
- SQL Azure Reporting Services Preview Sample (10/24/2011, live)
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