Hello,
Resuming the conversation that was originally posted 5 months ago which received great input from the community. Checking the pulse 5 months later. Has the sentiment changed?
Feel free to define "mission-critical" in your organizations own terms. Thanks for the input PowerApps community. You. All. Rock!
Hi, This is the 2nd outage i've noticed in 2 years of working with powerapps, but i dont work with it daily. I'm sure a few have gone noticed by me and my users.
Is there a list somewhere of known outages? it would be really beneficial for people starting out to get a feel for how reliable it is. Anyone got any ideas on how we could track these outages?
@RussellGove These two from a few months ago affected us for approximately 2 hours on each occasion.
First event
1/29/2019
PowerApps completely inaccessible for the duration of the event.
Second event
2/5/2019
PowerApps completely inaccessible for the duration of the event.
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Discussion/Powerapps-Down/m-p/232642#M68398
If I understand you correctly, I think you are asking reletively speaking, how much down time I have due to issues with my code writing, vs the downtime of PA as an application?
If that is the question... I have never had down-time from the app code itself. I have had some small issues with discovering holes here and there that I need to fix things here and there. My code has never caused down-time that is measureable. The only measureable downtime is due to PA and the associated suite of services that are propping up my Apps.
Similar software that do some similar features as my apps... I can say the downtime for those apps is virtually zero. They are rock solid. These apps are based on local server SQL tables. We have never had a local server outage. But, there will be a day! When that does happen, my on-prem gateway will crash and PA will be down as well.
I will say that the type of outages experienced by these cloud apps is MUCH higher than having these services local.
Is there some sort of notification system Microsoft has? If we continue to expand our apps via powerapp, we really need some sort of system to let people know when the system is down and they need to use paper.
Hi @martinav ,
I was more asking:
I come from a large org with a multitude of application types. The downtime I've seen from near daily-use of PowerApps for over the past year has been pretty comparable to downtime of non-PowerApps.
Some of the biggest risks are:
I'm very curious how others are mitigating this risk. Anyone care to share?
@dyee4613 , check support.powerapps.com to see when things are up/down.
Mispost..
This statement applied to the non-powerapp reliability:
"Similar software that do some similar features as my apps... I can say the downtime for those apps is virtually zero. They are rock solid. These apps are based on local server SQL tables. We have never had a local server outage. But, there will be a day! When that does happen, my on-prem gateway will crash and PA will be down as well."
I am writing apps because we are a small company, and cannot afford the mainstream apps that do what mine are doing. These alternative, conventional software we would use otherwise would be built on local servers, and would have a similar reliability to that of the other local apps we use. Thus, far more reliable than Powerapps. Also, they include maintenance packages which would mean we would not have to have a local expert to manage ths software. At present, I am the only one who has any knowledge of these apps, and it would take some time and money to find somone to take them over in my absence.
The benefit of the power platform gives us: