Google Cloud: misterious constant 0.033/s compute request APIs - google-app-engine

I open a new project on Google Cloud, and I start a default Standard Env App Engine. I don't do anything else, and I start to get mysterious non-zero traffic to my project.
I specifically keep getting a alternating 0.033/s and 0.017/s request per seconds on the project. This is not specific to this project but to ALL my google cloud projects. Also I get 100% errors rate. I trying to investigate but I didn't even know where to start.
Where can I get more information on what this APIs requests are specifically? And why this happens?

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Getting a 504 Gateway Error on Google App Engine (long runtime of Flask App)

I have been working with Google Cloud Platform & Flask for the first time - my client wanted me to deliver a solution on it in 2 weeks.
I have been successful so far in creating a Flask application and wanted to productionize it through Google App Engine. However, the runtime of my function is a little over 2.5 minutes and I get a "504 Gateway Timeout" error. In the code piece, I am accessing bigQuery, google spreadsheets and GCS buckets. Should I switch to a new GCP service or can some tweaks in my code/yaml file suffice? My yaml config is -
runtime: python37
liveness_check:
check_interval_sec: 300
timeout_sec: 299
failure_threshold: 10
success_threshold: 10
initial_delay_sec: 500
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app_start_timeout_sec: 1800
I would be very, very grateful to anyone who can help me resolve this issue.
Thank you!
Edit: Just to give a brief about the application - this is a forecasting application that reads data from bigquery, GCS buckets, and Google Spreadsheets, processes it and runs ML models on it. The results are written back to Google Spreadsheets within the application itself (i.e. no response needed from the application per see). I'm triggering the application using google AppsScript.
The best option is to restructure how your website works. You can then stick with GAE standard. Even if you switch to GAE flexible, it will work better this way.
Here is the sequence of operations:
A user submits a request from web page.
Your website returns immediately with a page that indicates that you are working on it.
The page you return includes Javascript that will poll your website to ask if the task is complete.
When the task is complete, the Javascript will update the page and present the results to the user.
On the server side, you can use cloud tasks for doing the processing which I believe has a time limit of 10 minutes.
This way, the user is always viewing a web page and isn't sitting there waiting and looking at a blank screen while waiting for the server to return something.

I recently deployed a "hello, word" flask app with google app engine (flexible) and it's very slow

I followed this guide: Quickstart for Python. After launching the "hello, world" app to app engine (flex) I went to [project].appspot.com and noticed that it is very slow. I tried testing it in different devices and network conditions and I still have the same issue. I went to Cloud Trace and can't build a report due to a lack of traces. It is also slow in both http and https. I deployed to us-central and I am in Texas.
I have attached some logs from Logging and a snippet from Google Chrome's Dev Tools to show the slowness.
Logs from Logging:
Chrome Dev Tools:
The images don’t show anything especially unexpected. Response time will vary depending on the location of the client and its distance to the region of the App Engine Flex instance. Responses that take an especially long time are likely due to a cold boot.
You probably use a free instance of app engine. Because it's free the lifespan is very short, therefor it shuts down after a short amount of time without requests. When you send a new request after some time, the instance has to set up and then process the request, which takes time. You can keep pinging the app to keep the instance alive. Similiar question is anwered here.

LiteIDE for Go in Google App Engine

It seems to me that LiteIDE is a good environment to get started with Go...
But in order to debug, it's asking me for the following:
What should I set these to if I'm developing a Google App Engine app?
I need the ability to detect and give hints to compile-time errors in the IDE. That should also be the case when using GAE-specific APIs (Channel API, etc.)
Though for runtime errors, I would assume that those are better left to visiting the dev site.
In other words- the way Google App Engine does things if I understand correctly, is you launch dev_appserver.py and then you don't actually recompile/relaunch again, the dev server does all of that and you simply visit http://localhost:8080 to test it, and it will give runtime errors descriptively in the browser.

Google App Engine request being executed multiple times

I have an issue with our Python 2.7 Google App Engine project where after a lot of research it appears as though App Engine is repeatedly sending through the same request to our servers. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
EDIT:
It's a standard request with all the same parameters as it was first sent with (some of which are 15 days old now). I'm wandering if it's a similar situation to this https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine-downtime-notify/9fAYP7UyppQ
Typically App Engine doesn't send requests, it's the framework you use to handle requests.
If you're getting duplicate requests coming in, you should look to see where it's coming from. If it's coming from an app engine server to your own external server, then somebody is running some sort of process on their app engine account that's accessing data from your server during its execution.
The details, including what you would do about it, are all situation-dependent. There's no catch-all response. Just be aware that, yes, any computer on the Internet can make web requests to any other. And that includes app engine (in both directions).

EC2 , Openstack, Google App Engine (GAE) and REST

I was handed an assignment but I don't know where to start.
The aim is to have 2 piece of code running. One will run in Open stack private cloud and perform the task of indexing two sets of text, with another running in EC2 with the task of matching the two indexed tests.
I want to access them via google app engine.
Ideally, I would like to click a button or perform an action on Google app engine, which then sends a request to Openstack to run the code and retrieve the output of a txt file.
That outputted text files will then be forwarded onto EC2 where the matching will occur and the results sent back to Google App Engine.
My question is, how can I send the files between the systems using REST requests?
FrankN --
EC2, GAE and OpenStack are disparate cloud computing platforms. To integrate them might include, say, using one platform while saving backups to another.
CloudU.Rackspace.com is a vendor-neutral education site about cloud computing (note: It'll take six or so hours to finish it all). This might help.
Disclaimer: I work for Rackspace.
Firstly, not really sure what your requirements are, why your code does or why are you trying to mix cloud providers in that way.
That said, I would suggest taking the upload from GAE and push it to AWS S3 where you can then retrieve and use as you please from EC2.
Not sure what functionality you are trying to get out of OpenStack that is not present in AWS; however, I would suggest building whatever you are building in EC2 first, then duplicate in on OpenStack services to avoid future vendor lock in.

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