Sorry, I'm confused. What if your log scraping code breaks on imports, then what?

Honestly, I'm tempted to mark is WAI... Let me know if I'm missing something.

not sure
maybe it is an inherent problem with python

if there was a separate monitoring service that scrapes logs, this problem would be solved

the bug describes a user problem and signifies a problem with the design, not with implementation. Maybe it is not a problem wit gae_ts_mon, but a problem of infra-monitoring in general: we don't have alerting on this kind of problems. I've changed the bug title; not sure it is WAI now

in the nutshell, the problem is that we don't receive alerts even though an app is completely down. this is not wai

OK, agreed - we should also have blackbox monitoring in addition to whitebox, which is gae_ts_mon. I believe monorail employs some blackbox monitoring using probes (?).

AFAIK, this is a separate pipeline (yet another one), and I'm not up to speed on it yet.

dsansome@: do you have any comments on this?

Blackbox monitoring wouldn't have helped detect this if the app was still up?
You could just alert if your request rate drops to 0.

Either way, is there a bug for being able to deploy an app without running gclient sync?

If this is really a Pri-1, find an owner and update the priority.

This is the result of a bulk edit that moved high priority available bugs to a lower priority in an attempt to be more honest with bug filers.