What to log from an odds poller
Log the transitions, not the polls. Which events deserve a line, which to keep out, and how a small hourly rollup feeds every metric you alert on.
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Capacity notes
Dated engineering notes on polling the Pinnacle REST API: capacity, cursors, rate limits, storage and monitoring.
Recalibrate your capacity plan after the first month
Planning math is a guess until production grades it. Compare planned and actual requests, peak rate, 429s and storage after a month, then adjust.
Share one Pinnacle API key across pollers without 429s
Every worker shares one per-second ceiling. Partition the boards, pace against one shared budget, and keep one cursor per board: a multi-sport poller.
What to do when your Pinnacle API cursor is gone
Lost your since cursor? Stop the delta loop, take one full board read, persist the new cursor with its snapshot, and resume. The full procedure.
Test your Pinnacle odds pipeline offline before going live
Record a handful of real Pinnacle API responses, replay them through your parser, and rehearse 429s, restarts and cursor resumes without spending quota.