Ok the speed of the google maps is based on the CLIENT.

I just did a wireshark on my client browsing Observium and on the Observium server.

The server didn’t go to any dns while my client did.

See attached;

So my question – how fast/well can the client access these api’s. google probably has a team of 500 people keeping them up and fast  24 x 7 J

From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Milton Ngan
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 02:07 AM
To: Observium Network Observation System
Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium and Google downtime

Not a DNS issue. We could ping google, but HTTP/HTTPS connections were not going through. Checked with third party monitoring systems and they also reported the same state

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From: observium [observium-bounces@observium.org] on behalf of Joseph L. Brunner [joe@affirmedsystems.com]
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2014 10:30 PM
To: Observium Network Observation System
Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium and Google downtime

What is your dns server?

Sure its good?

We use google’s own 8.8.8.8

From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Milton Ngan
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 01:27 AM
To: observium@observium.org
Subject: [Observium] Observium and Google downtime

We use the Google Map API, and it appeared that Google was unreachable here for several minutes. In that time, our Observium box ground to a halt due to all the PHP processes hanging on what I can only guess were map API calls. Once Google came back the machine became responsive again after all the processes finally cleared out.