NASA-IMPACT / NASA-IMPACT/veda-data

Fire API "Internal Server Error" despite pagination

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We have gotten a heads up from @scofiel that queries to the FEDS AP have been returning an "Internal Server Error", even when pagination is being used, and the limit is set to 100. This is concerning because 100 is the limit we suggest in the documentation.

This issue came up before and prompted a change to the documentation to explain pagination. At the time, I believe the upper values that users could supply to limit were ~ 3000. I am concerned that this is an indicator that the database itself is slowing down as we add more data to it, and that the underlying issue could get worse.

Some details:

  • @scofiel was querying the public.eis_fire_lf_perimeter_archive collection.
  • Limits of 100 failed, but 50 work.
    -@scofiel was trying to get ~3500 features out of the API

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