No reported issues in February 2017 from our Pingdom tools.
Category Archives: My Studies
uptime reports for January 2017
Whilst we had issues with studentcentral during January, pingdom didn’t detect any outages.
Unscheduled studentcentral downtime 19 January 2017 -1am-1.42am
Following performance issues with studentcentral on Wednesday, 18th January, between 2.30pm and 3.00pm Blackboard, our hosts for studentcentral, recommended some system downtime for maintenance.
We had scheduled this time for Friday, 20th January at 1am and would have communicated this downtime today. Blackboard, mistakenly, performed the maintenance this morning between 1am and 1.42am. Studentcentral would have been unavailable during this time.
Studentcentral performance issues – 18 January 2017
Studentcentral appears to have had some performance issues between 2.30pm and 3.0pm on Wednesday 18th January, 2017
The issue appeared to have resolved itself by 3pm.
We have spoken to Blackboard, our managed hosting company, and they recommended an audit fix. They noted that all 4 application servers were showing high Java utilisation.
Tii News: December 2016
Wednesday, 30th November – Digital Receipts issue
RESOLVED at 11:36 on Monday 5th December
Students submitting assignments via Turnitin have not been receiving email submission confirmation receipts since approximately 20:35 on 29/11/16. This issue has been reported to Turnitin and is under investigation currently.
Until this issue is resolved, we recommend that students take a screenshot of the on-screen digital receipt shown once an assignment has been submitted.
Students may also download a copy of their digital receipt by viewing the Turnitin submission point, clicking the “Download” icon next to their submission, and choosing the “Digital receipt” option from the menu shown:
Reminder – Turnitin is unavailable from 3-7pm this Saturday, 3rd December
Turnitin have advised us that they will be carrying out maintenance on the service on Saturday 3rd December, from 3-7pm. The service will be completely unavailable during this maintenance window (including the Turnitin for iPad app), and we therefore recommend avoiding scheduling submission deadlines to fall within this period.
Uptime Reports for October
Studentcentral uptime 100% with an average response time of 549ms
Studentfolio uptime 99.95% with an average response time of 549ms
detail of outages
Recent periods of studentcentral unaccessibility
So far this academic year there have been two brief interruptions to studentcentral:
- On Sat 1 Oct the studentcentral login page was unavailable between 3am and 11am. This was due to a corrupted file following a regular ‘rolling restart’ of the service completed out of hours. The issue was identified and the team will monitor closely to ensure it does not impact access if it should reoccur.
- On Thursday 7 Oct between 2pm and 2:45pm the university experienced a network issue preventing servers external to the university accessing content inside the university. This affected studentcentral logins, blogs.brighton.ac.uk logins, studentfolio, sharepoint, unicard top-ups and many more services. The network issue is still under investigation.
To find out about services currently unavailable or planned upcoming services interruptions, check the IT Service Status webpage.
To find out about service interruptions and known issues with eLearning services, check this Service Status blog from the eLearning team.
Uptime Reports for September
Studentcentral uptime 100% with an average response time of 544ms
Studentfolio uptime 99.5% with 2 scheduled outages for upgrades
Uptime reports June 2016
Uptime report for studentcentral for June 2016- one outage of 5 mins of downtime, 99.99% uptime.
Studentfolio uptime for June 2016 6 scheduled outages on 15th June for upgrades totalling 3 hours downtime, 99.64% uptime.
Uptime reports May 2016
We run Pingdom monitoring on our hosted services, studentcentral and studentfolio.
I’m going to add a monthly uptime update, and collate the data as the months go by. The ping times are filtered on Europe, 97% of our traffic is from the UK in term time, it will be interesting to monitor the spread over the Summer.
For May 2016 both Studentcentral and Studentfolio have had 100% uptime, which seems a good start, although I’m never convinced of 100% figures.
We need to get those ping times down.
