[ensembl-dev] EnsEMBL REST server gateway timeout

Thu Nov 13 13:07:06 GMT 2014

Hi Paolo,

As long as you have a system in place to respect the 15 requests/second 
limit, the server should be able to cope with your request.

If you are using the VEP endpoint, it also supports POST request.
This allows you to submit several (up to 1000) entries in a single request.
It reduces the overhead in accessing the server, and means you can 
technically submit 15,000 entries per second rather than 15.

There is documentation on how to set up a POST request here:
https://github.com/Ensembl/ensembl-rest/wiki/POST-Requests

Please give it a try if you find this useful, we'd like to get feedback 
on it and expand it to more endpoints if it proves successful.

Regards,
Magali

On 13/11/2014 10:09, Paolo Cozzi wrote:
>
> Dear Kieron,
>
> Thank for your support. In my institution we are developing an 
> application which use REST interface to query VEP endpoint in 
> particular. I think that in production environment we don't need to do 
> a lot of requests on your server (we take account of the rate-limit 
> conditions of the service, but I saw that users do 1 or 2 requests per 
> day), but maybe did I stress your server in this days during 
> developing? If so, sorry for the inconvenience. Now I think that 
> things are quite stable, and our requests will be fewer.
>
> Thanks again and thanks to ensembl team for support,
>
> Regards,
>
> Paolo
>
>
> Il 12/11/2014 17:18, Kieron Taylor ha scritto:
>> Hi Paolo,
>>
>> Apologies for the inconsistent service. We are investigating the 
>> cause of three outages today. There may be intermittent further 
>> request failures while we restart individual components.
>>
>> Are you doing a great deal of VEP querying?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kieron Taylor
>>
>> Ensembl Core
>> EMBL-EBI
>>
>> On 12/11/2014 15:49, Paolo Cozzi wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> When doing a query on EnsEMBL rest server, I receive "gateway timeout",
>>> for instance
>>>
>>> $ curl -H "content-type:application/json" -H "accept:application/json"
>>> --data '{ "variants" : ["21 26960070 rs116645811 G A . . .", "21
>>> 26965148 rs1135638 G A . . ." ] }' 
>>> http://rest.ensembl.org/vep/sheep/region
>>> <html><body><h1>504 Gateway Time-out</h1>
>>> The server didn't respond in time.
>>> </body></html>
>>>
>>> Thank you for your attention,
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> Paolo
>>>
>>>
>>>
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