If you are a developer of external feeds to the Google Search Appliance, you spend a lot of your time waiting for feed process to move from the “Feeds” page to update.  There is an new feature to view the remaining count of documents waiting to be processed.  This can be accessed by going to /getbacklogcount on the back of the feed service port 19900.  Try it out:

http://yourappliance:19900/getbacklogcount