Betfair Down / Betfair site crash

[Derek27]

I'm disappointed with the level of abuse Betfair is getting on Twitter. It's fallen well below previous standards and reduced to simple "I want to cash out" tweets. Bring back the guy with the monkey memes.

[napshnap]

I'm disappointed with the level of abuse Betfair is getting on Twitter. It's fallen well below previous standards and reduced to simple "I want to cash out" tweets. Bring back the guy with the monkey memes.

They got him, Derek. They got him ...

[beermonsterman]

I'm disappointed with the level of abuse Betfair is getting on Twitter. It's fallen well below previous standards and reduced to simple "I want to cash out" tweets. Bring back the guy with the monkey memes.

They got him, Derek. They got him ...

[Derek27]

Our service was not good enough today, it must and will be better...

Think I've heard that before!

[Euler]

The Betfair Exchange will be unavailable on Tuesday 7th March 05:30 to 06:30 GMT due to planned maintenance

[mickeytrader]

Thx for info!

[lotora]

system down

[Derek27]

system down

That was planned, see two posts ago. You can get prior email warnings of planned maintenance by subscribing to the forum below.

https://forum.developer.betfair.com/for ... ouncements

[Derek27]

We had multiple failovers of the Exchange Bet Stream on Saturday, which caused a full snapshot to be sent out to our other downstream applications. One of these applications ran out of memory when trying to process the snapshot, causing long garbage collection, and leading to bet placement failures. To mitigate such problems, we are currently in the process of aggressively reducing & tuning memory usage across both the Bet Stream and our downstream applications.

Haven't a clue what they're talking about but at least we've got an explanation.

[ShaunWhite]

We had multiple failovers of the Exchange Bet Stream on Saturday, which caused a full snapshot to be sent out to our other downstream applications. One of these applications ran out of memory when trying to process the snapshot, causing long garbage collection, and leading to bet placement failures. To mitigate such problems, we are currently in the process of aggressively reducing & tuning memory usage across both the Bet Stream and our downstream applications.

Haven't a clue what they're talking about but at least we've got an explanation.

The api usually delivers deltas, changes since the last update. If you request a full snapshot when loading a new market, or they start streaming snapshots as it seems here, it's a hell of a lot bigger and it all goes bang.

As an aside what I think is quite interesting is how it's worth leaving at least half an hour either side of a planned outage if you want to bet into typical markets. Looking at incomming network traffic around the last planned outage it's definately the case that people wind down early and then take a while to wind up again. The scale is Mb per 10mins.

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[Derek27]

As an aside what I think is quite interesting is how it's worth leaving at least half an hour either side of a planned outage if you want to bet into typical markets. Looking at incomming network traffic around the last planned outage it's definately the case that people wind down early and then take a while to wind up again. The scale is Mb per 10mins.

Is your overnight trading on overnight markets or are you offering prices to the afternoon racing markets?

[ShaunWhite]

Is your overnight trading on overnight markets or are you offering prices to the afternoon racing markets?

Aus horses and dogs.

[Derek27]

I've placed a couple of bets that didn't go in.

[deestar]

here we go again? very late suspend on the 14:05 from Wolverhampton

[Michael5482]

here we go again? very late suspend on the 14:05 from Wolverhampton

No issues on the football Bournemouth v Liverpool has been exemplary