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Secure Your ColdFusion Perpetual License Before Adobe’s Subscription-Only Switch

Following Adobe’s announcement at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit in Las Vegas, ColdFusion will transition to a subscription-only licensing model. This major shift in licensing strategy means developers and organizations have a limited window to secure their final perpetual ColdFusion license. … Read More

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FusionReactor: AI-Powered Server Monitoring Takes Center Stage

In an era where data-driven decisions are crucial, a recent Gartner Peer Insights review sheds light on FusionReactor’s evolution into an AI-enhanced monitoring powerhouse. This October 2024 review from a UK-based implementation offers fascinating insights into how the platform is … Read More

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AI-Powered Observability: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future

Integrating generative AI seems inevitable and challenging as we navigate the evolving landscape of application monitoring. Those of us in the monitoring space, including our team at FusionReactor, find ourselves at an inflection point where we must carefully consider how … Read More

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Introducing OpsPilot for Slack Integration: Seamless Data Analysis Within Your Workspace

Data analysis shouldn’t mean constantly switching contexts between applications. That’s why we’re excited to announce our new OpsPilot Slack integration, which brings the power of FusionReactor’s analytics directly into your team’s daily workflow. https://vimeo.com/1029245689 In today’s fast-paced work environment, teams … Read More

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Introducing OpsPilot for Microsoft Teams Integration: Monitoring Made Social

In our continuous effort to make application monitoring more accessible and collaborative, we’re excited to announce OpsPilot’s integration with Microsoft Teams. This new feature allows your entire team to interact with OpsPilot directly through Teams channels and conversations, bringing powerful … Read More

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Streamline Your Operations with OpsPilot’s Latest Integrations

Context-switching between tools in today’s fast-paced development environment can significantly slow incident response and problem-solving. That’s why we’re excited to showcase OpsPilot’s seamless integrations with three essential platforms: Jira, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. These integrations directly bring OpsPilot’s powerful monitoring … Read More

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The Friday Effect: Why Your Observability Strategy Matters Most Before Weekends

The 80/20 Rule of Friday Deployments In the world of DevOps and SRE, we often talk about the Pareto Principle – the famous 80/20 rule. At FusionReactor, we’ve built our observability platform around this principle, understanding that 80% of your … Read More

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Observability as a Competitive Advantage: Focusing on the 20% That Drives Business Value

Look, we’ve all been there. Your monitoring dashboard lights up like a Christmas tree at 3 AM, drowning you in alerts while you desperately try to figure out which ones actually matter. Meanwhile, your CEO is asking why the new … Read More

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Streamline Your Workflow: A Guide to OpsPilot’s Jira Integration

Managing tickets across multiple platforms can be a hassle, but what if you could handle all your Jira tasks without leaving your primary operations interface? That’s exactly what OpsPilot’s Jira integration brings to the table. Currently optimized for Jira Data … Read More

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Celebrating Our Excellence: A Milestone Achievement in G2 Recognition

We are thrilled and humbled to announce an extraordinary achievement in our company’s journey – earning an unprecedented collection of G2 badges across multiple categories. This recognition represents more than just accolades; it reflects our unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional … Read More

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Important Update: Transitioning Away from MyCommerce and Ensuring Continuity for Our Customers

At Intergral our customers are our highest priority, and we are committed to providing you with uninterrupted access to the products and services you rely on. Today, we want to share an update about a challenging situation that has recently … Read More

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FusionReactor APM: Streamlining Server Monitoring for Modern Development Teams

Read this and many other excellent reviews on G2.com In today’s fast-paced development environment, reliable server monitoring tools aren’t just a luxury—they’re a necessity. After extensively using FusionReactor APM in our development workflow, I wanted to share my experience with … Read More

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Introducing Server Scenes: A New Way to Monitor Your Infrastructure in FusionReactor Clouds Explore

Get a comprehensive view of your server health with FusionReactor Cloud’s latest feature. Modern infrastructure monitoring demands both depth and clarity. FusionReactor Cloud’s new Server Scenes feature joins the robust Explore section, complementing the existing Metrics, Logs, and Traces views … Read More

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Distributed Tracing as a Foundation for Service Dependency Mapping

The Map Is Not The Territory I’ve spent countless hours staring at outdated architecture diagrams before the ink dried. We’ve all been there – trying to understand how our services interact, only to discover that reality has long since diverged … Read More

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How 80/20 Observability Can Enhance Collaboration Between Dev and Ops

Beyond the Metrics Let’s be honest—we’re drowning in data. Every service, container, and function generates metrics, and somewhere beneath this avalanche of information lies the insight we actually need. But here’s the thing: DevOps’s biggest challenge isn’t technical. It’s human. … Read More

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Urgent: Attention Required for Your FusionReactor Purchase via MyCommerce

Important Update: Changes to Our Payment Processing System As part of our ongoing commitment to providing the best possible service to our customers, we want to inform you about some important changes regarding our payment processing system. We’re managing a … Read More

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Introducing OpsPilot Hub: Knowledge and Services Supercharging AI Responses with Contextual Intelligence

Introducing OpsPilot Hub We’re excited to announce two powerful new features in our FusionReactors AI assistant: OpsPilot Knowledge and OpsPilot Services. These innovative systems are designed to revolutionize how AI understands and responds to your queries by leveraging your organization’s … Read More

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The Staggering Cost of IT Downtime

It’s a Critical Business Imperative In today’s digital-first world, the reliability of IT systems is not just a technical concern—it’s a critical business imperative. The cost of IT downtime has skyrocketed in recent years, with far-reaching consequences that extend well … Read More

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5 Key Features That Deliver 80% of Monitoring Value at 20% of the Cost

In IT monitoring and observability, the 80:20 rule (the Pareto Principle) suggests that 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts. At FusionReactor, we’ve embraced this principle to deliver a cost-effective observability platform that focuses on the features … Read More

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Upgrade to FusionReactor 12.1.1 Now: Defect in FusionReactor 12.1.0 That Can Potentially Disable Metrics Shipper

On September 26th, 2024, we learned of a bug affecting some customers who upgraded to FusionReactor Agent version 12.1.0.  We want to provide a detailed account of the bug, its impact, and the steps we’ve taken to resolve it. Transparency … Read More

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BoxLang support in FusionReactor 12.1

FusionReactor Introduces Box Lang support in version 12.1 FusionReactor’s release of version 12.1 introduces support for BoxLang, a powerful scripting language increasingly popular in the ColdFusion and Lucee ecosystems.  BoxLang, developed by Ortus Solutions, is at the heart of modern … Read More

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FusionReactor 12.1: Expanding Horizons with Java 21 Support and Enhanced Cloud Integration

We’re thrilled to announce the release of FusionReactor 12.1, our latest update that brings exciting new features to enhance your application performance monitoring experience. This release focuses on expanding language support, improving cloud integration, and streamlining user access. Let’s dive … Read More

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Beyond Cost: The Unexpected Benefits of Switching to a Lean Monitoring Solution

When considering a switch to a more cost-effective monitoring solution like FusionReactor, the immediate focus is often on the potential savings. However, adopting a lean observability platform can bring a host of unexpected benefits that go far beyond just reducing … Read More

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What SOC 2 Type 2 Certification Means for FusionReactor Users

At Intergral Information Systems GmbH, we’re excited to announce that we’ve achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification. This is a significant milestone not just for us but for all users of our flagship product, FusionReactor. This blog post explores what … Read More

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Behind the Scenes of the SOC 2 Certification Process

Behind the Scenes of the SOC 2 Certification Process Achieving SOC 2 certification is a significant milestone for any organization, particularly in the software industry. But what does the journey to accreditation look like? This blog post’ll take you behind … Read More

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Intergral Information Systems GmbH Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Certification: Reinforcing Our Commitment to Security and Compliance

Click here for more information about AICPA SOC. Successfully completed the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II audit We are thrilled to announce that Intergral Information Systems GmbH, the maker of FusionReactor, has successfully completed the Service Organization Control … Read More

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AI-driven APM: Revolutionizing Application Monitoring and Performance Optimization

The landscape of application performance monitoring (APM) is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies. This evolution is reshaping how organizations approach application monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization. Traditional APM tools … Read More

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The 80/20 Rule: How We Deliver High-Value Observability at a Fraction of the Cost

The 80/20 Rule: How We Deliver High-Value Observability at a Fraction of the Cost In the rapidly evolving world of technology, observability has become essential for maintaining the health and performance of applications and infrastructure. While several big names like … Read More

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How has observability transitioned from optional to indispensable in the AI era?

Observability: From optional to indispensable in the AI era   A significant paradigm shift is underway in the rapidly evolving landscape of IT operations. Once relegated to the realm of “nice-to-have” features, observability has emerged as an absolute necessity in … Read More

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The future of Observability: Leveraging AI for predictive Insights

The future of Observability: Leveraging AI for predictive Insights In the digital age, where businesses increasingly rely on complex technological ecosystems, maintaining seamless operations and preemptively addressing issues has become a cornerstone of competitive advantage. Observability, the practice of monitoring … Read More

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AI and troubleshooting: Evolution, not replacement

Why Are AI and troubleshooting evolving together instead of replacing each other? As artificial intelligence advances, its impact on Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and observability is undeniable. However, whether AI will entirely replace human troubleshooting is more nuanced than a … Read More

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The critical role of automatic anomaly detection in modern data systems

The critical role of automatic anomaly detection in modern data systems In the age of big data and continuous digital transformation, identifying anomalies swiftly and accurately has become paramount. Automatic anomaly detection, leveraging advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence, is a … Read More

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The FusionReactor Tunnel – seamless link between On-prem and Cloud

We’re thrilled to announce the latest version of FusionReactor, featuring the innovative Tunnel! This new feature provides seamless integration between FusionReactor Cloud and On-Premise Agents, offering a unified experience for monitoring and managing your applications. Seamless Integration with the Tunnel … Read More

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Custom Detectors

Enhancing Anomaly Detection with FusionReactor Cloud’s Custom Detectors We’re excited to announce that FusionReactor Cloud has been upgraded with new Custom Detectors, significantly boosting its anomaly detection capabilities. These advanced features allow for more precise monitoring and diagnostics of your … Read More

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Indispensable component of our system architecture

Indispensable Component of Our System Architecture: A FusionReactor APM Review Introduction In today’s fast-paced, cloud-driven world, managing application performance is crucial. For those of us running ColdFusion applications in containerized environments, finding the right tools to diagnose and resolve issues … Read More

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How to store FusionReactor logs persistently with Docker volumes

How to store FusionReactor logs persistently with Docker volumes As a CFML developer using FusionReactor, ensuring your logs are accessible and secure is crucial. When running FusionReactor in a Docker container, storing logs in a persistent location becomes essential. This … Read More

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Exciting new features coming to FusionReactor

Custom Detectors, FusionReactor 12.1.0, the Slack OpsPilot integration, and much more! We’re thrilled to announce a series of groundbreaking enhancements to FusionReactor, designed to revolutionize how you monitor and optimize your applications. Let’s dive into these exciting new features: Custom … Read More

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Enhanced anomaly detection with FusionReactor’s new Custom Detectors

Enhanced anomaly detection FusionReactor Cloud has been upgraded with new Custom Detectors, enhancing its anomaly detection capabilities. This feature allows for more precise monitoring and diagnostics of your application’s performance. Setting up Custom Detectors requires manual input and some knowledge … Read More

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Save 25% on Adobe ColdFusion CF2023

Exclusive ColdFusion Upgrade Promotion Are you using an older version of Adobe ColdFusion? Now is the perfect time to upgrade! The FusionReactor has teamed up with Adobe to bring you an incredible deal. Upgrade to ColdFusion 23 if you have … Read More

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How to copy FusionReactor configuration between instances

How to copy FusionReactor configuration between instances Configuring FusionReactor for multiple ColdFusion instances on your server can be time-consuming if done individually. As a CFML developer, you’ll be pleased to know that FusionReactor simplifies this process by storing its configuration … Read More

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How to view historical data in FusionReactor Cloud

How to view historical data in FusionReactor Cloud FusionReactor Cloud provides powerful tools to view and analyze historical data, allowing you to maintain visibility over your application’s performance and troubleshoot issues effectively. Up to 13 months of metric data and … Read More

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Important : Cloud support for FusionReactor versions 9.x and earlier, ends on July 1, 2024

FusionReactor Agent version 9.x or earlier will no longer be supported on FusionReactor Cloud from July 1, 2024 Effective 1st July 2024, the FusionReactor agent version of 9.x and earlier will no longer be supported on the FusionReactor Cloud platform.  … Read More

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Common ColdFusion errors and how FusionReactor helps resolve them

Common ColdFusion errors and how FusionReactor helps resolve them ColdFusion is a powerful web development platform known for its rapid application development capabilities. However, like any technology, it is not immune to errors and issues that can disrupt your application’s … Read More

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5 Less common ColdFusion errors and how FusionReactor helps resolve them

5 Less common ColdFusion errors and how FusionReactor helps resolve them  While many ColdFusion errors are widely known and frequently encountered, some are less common but can still disrupt your application if not addressed. In this blog, we will explore … Read More

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Modernizing legacy ColdFusion applications with MVC

Modernizing legacy ColdFusion applications with MVC and FusionReactor Modernizing a legacy ColdFusion application can seem daunting, especially when dealing with complex, monolithic codebases. However, adopting an MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework can significantly streamline the process, making your application more modular, maintainable, … Read More

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FusionReactor sponsors CFCamp 2024

   When and where is CFCamp 2024? 13 – 14 June 2024 + Add to calendar Munich, Germany, Munich Airport Marriott Hotel FusionReactor sponsors CFCamp 2024: Revolutionizing monitoring with AI We are thrilled to announce that FusionReactor is a proud sponsor … Read More

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Improving Lucee application monitoring with FusionReactor

Improving Lucee application monitoring Are you running a Lucee application and seeking to enhance your monitoring capabilities, including JDBC performance? FusionReactor is the perfect solution for your needs. This blog will guide you through the setup process, ensuring you can … Read More

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Enhancing ColdFusion application monitoring with FusionReactor

Enhancing ColdFusion performance If you’re running a ColdFusion application and seeking to improve your overall monitoring capabilities and JDBC performance, FusionReactor is the perfect solution. This blog will guide you through installation, ensuring you can effortlessly monitor, optimize performance, and … Read More

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What causes a NoSuchMethodError in Java and how to avoid it

What causes a NoSuchMethodError in Java and how to avoid it What causes a NoSuchMethodError in Java In our article “5 Common errors you may see in Java Stack Traces and how to avoid them“, we took a quick look … Read More

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A must-have tool for any serious ColdFusion Shop: A developer’s review of FusionReactor

Having the right tools to monitor and optimize performance is crucial In the fast-paced world of web development, performance is everything. Slow response times can turn potential customers away and impact the overall user experience. For developers working with ColdFusion, … Read More

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Introducing DEEP: Transforming real-time application monitoring

FusionReactor introduces DEEP, a dynamic monitoring tool In today’s agile technological environment, ensuring the seamless performance and reliability of applications is paramount. To address this need, FusionReactor introduces DEEP, a dynamic monitoring tool designed to enhance existing monitoring capabilities in … Read More

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Unlocking new dimensions of data analysis with OpsPilot Vision

View and understand the context of any visual data Interpreting vast visual data is crucial, this is why we’re excited to launch OpsPilot Vision. This AI-driven feature enhances how we analyze visual information. It works seamlessly with platforms like FusionReactor … Read More

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Top Lucee CFML errors and how FusionReactor can help: A technical guide for developers

Lucee is a powerful CFML engine that enables developers to build dynamic web applications. Developers might encounter specific issues affecting application performance and stability like any technology. This guide will cover errors in Lucee CFML, complete with solutions and insights … Read More

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How FusionReactor APM streamlines development for small businesses

How FusionReactor APM streamlines development for small businesses David B, a small business owner, shares his journey with FusionReactor APM, illustrating how it has become an essential part of his development toolkit since transitioning from FusionDebug in 2013. Seamless transition … Read More

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Advanced Observability AI: How OpsPilot optimizes app monitoring

OpsPilot, your go-to observability AI tool  In the fast-paced world of tech, ensuring your applications run smoothly is more critical than ever. Enter FusionReactor’s OpsPilot, your go-to observability AI tool that’s changing the game in application monitoring. Integrated directly into … Read More

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How FusionReactor transforms Enterprise DevOps

How FusionReactor transforms Enterprise DevOps In the demanding realm of enterprise-scale DevOps, having the right tools can significantly streamline processes and improve efficiency. Today, we’re sharing insights from Jeremy K., a user from a large enterprise who has experienced firsthand … Read More

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Discover the future of web development at Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2024

As supporters of the ColdFusion community, we are once again sponsoring this year’s Summit As enthusiastic supporters of the Adobe ColdFusion community, we at FusionReactor are excited to extend an invitation to the Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2024. Join us at … Read More

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Optimizing monitoring and management: OpsPilot 1.2.0 unveils enhanced features for FusionReactor Cloud users

OpsPilot 1.2.0 released OpsPilot 1.2.0 brings several new features and improvements designed to optimize user experience, streamline workflows, and further empower users in their monitoring and management endeavors within FusionReactor Cloud. New features: OpsPilot Vision OpsPilot introduces OpsPilot Vision, a … Read More

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Optimizing MTTR in modern IT environments: The role of FusionReactor’s open-source observability

Introduction to MTTR challenges In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, organizations face the daunting challenge of managing ever-increasing data volumes within increasingly complex environments. This complexity elevates the risk of application and system breakdowns and extends the Mean Time to Recovery … Read More

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Easy multi-stream monitoring with FusionReactor

Multi-stream monitoring in FusionReactor In the dynamic, data-driven world of technology, FusionReactor stands out with its capability to monitor multiple data streams, encompassing Databases, Nginx, Kafka, Docker, IIS, and Machine System Metrics. This feature uses its Observability agent, enabling comprehensive oversight … Read More

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Simple setup for FusionReactor: Your essential guide

Simple Set up of FusionReactor Administration Manager (FRAM) and the Observability Agent For FusionReactor users, a streamlined setting of the FusionReactor Administration Manager (FRAM) and the Observability Agent is crucial in getting the most out of this observability platform. This … Read More

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Spring 2024: FusionReactor – maximize system performance with award-winning monitoring

Maximize system performace As we enter Spring 2024, FusionReactor continues to lead the way in helping businesses maximize system performance. We’re proud to announce that, mirroring our achievements in Winter 2024, we have once again received prestigious awards from G2.com. … Read More

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FusionReactor’s Event Snapshot Feature: A Detailed Overview

Identify and resolve application issues Navigating through application issues can be challenging. FusionReactor’s Event Snapshot feature offers a practical solution, simplifying the process of identifying and resolving application problems. 1. What is the Event Snapshot? The Event Snapshot is a … Read More

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Updates to FusionReactor On-Premise: Streamlining for the future

Important changes to our product offerings and billing system From April 16th, 2024 FusionReactor will move to a single edition and we want to let you know exactly what this means for you: Unification of product editions: We’re moving to … Read More

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Rethinking Observability for Adobe ColdFusion developer teams: Balancing legacy efficiency with modern demands and the essential role of database monitoring

Observability for Adobe ColdFusion Adobe ColdFusion, renowned for its rapid application development capabilities, is a reliable platform for many developers. However, in modern web development demands, dev teams must embrace observability for Adobe ColdFusion, mainly focusing on the critical aspect of … Read More

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Enhanced system monitoring is made easy with FusionReactor’s new Observability Agent

The essence of the Observability Agent The Observability Agent is the latest innovation from FusionReactor, designed to extend and enhance monitoring capabilities within the FusionReactor Cloud ecosystem. This powerful tool is built on the OpenTelemetry and Grafana Agent frameworks, enabling … Read More

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Why Distributed Tracing is critical to faster troubleshooting and performance optimization

Understanding distributed tracing  Distributed tracing is a systematic approach that provides end-to-end visibility in complex, distributed systems. It involves capturing timing and metadata at each stage of a transaction or request, enabling a deeper understanding of operational dynamics. This technique … Read More

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Easier anomaly insights: FusionReactor’s intelligent detection tool

Understanding anomaly detection Anomaly Detection, a new Beta feature in FusionReactor, represents a significant leap in monitoring and operational management. It’s engineered to pinpoint deviations from standard metrics behavior, elevating how organizations handle data and operations. This feature utilizes algorithms … Read More

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Maximizing system performance: Leveraging metrics in FusionReactor

The importance of metrics in FusionReactor Metrics in FusionReactor are vital for evaluating the health and performance of applications and systems. They provide quantitative data on various aspects, like response times, system resource usage, and throughput. These metrics allow users … Read More

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Enhance system monitoring with FusionReactor’s new Observability Agent

The essence of the Observability Agent – enhance system monitoring The Observability Agent is the latest innovation from FusionReactor, designed to extend and enhance system monitoring capabilities within the FusionReactor Cloud ecosystem. This powerful tool is built on the OpenTelemetry … Read More

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What’s new in FusionReactor March 2024

Welcome to the latest update from FusionReactor! We’re thrilled to unveil many new features and enhancements designed to elevate your application monitoring and management experience in this edition. FusionReactor 12 brings a wealth of capabilities to empower developers and administrators … Read More

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Simple and efficient observability: Top 5 FusionReactor features to streamline your monitoring process

In the complex world of software observability, the need for tools that simplify and streamline processes is paramount. FusionReactor, an advanced observability platform, stands out in this regard. Integrating groundbreaking GenAI technology and offering seamless Open Telemetry (OTel) integrations, FusionReactor … Read More

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Important Update: Support for FusionReactor versions 8 and 9 extended to July 1, 2024

Support for FusionReactor versions 8 and 9 extended to July 1, 2024 In our commitment to provide a supportive and responsive experience for all our users, we have an important announcement regarding FusionReactor versions 8 and 9. Considering the valuable … Read More

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Why FusionReactor is still the best ColdFusion APM

FusionReactor (FR) is the leading application performance management (APM) solution for ColdFusion and CFML environments. Its robust and comprehensive feature set makes it an indispensable tool for developers and IT professionals. Let’s explore why FusionReactor remains the best ColdFusion APM … Read More

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Listening to you, innovating for you: Introducing FusionReactor’s upgraded billing plans

Significant billing plan updates for new and existing customers At FusionReactor, we believe in the power of listening to our valued customers. Your feedback fuels our innovation, and we’ve heard you clearly. Many of you have shared how FusionReactor and … Read More

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Optimizing performance: The benefits of FusionReactor’s 5% trace sample rate

Comprehensive insight vs maintaining system efficiency In the complex application performance monitoring landscape, the value of trace data must be balanced. At FusionReactor, we recognize this data’s critical role in system diagnostics and performance tuning. That’s why we’ve set our … Read More

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Five things you didn’t know about FusionReactor

Unmatched Value and Advanced Features In exploring five things you didn’t know about FusionReactor, we delve into the platform’s advanced features and outstanding value, especially when compared with other major players in the observability platform market. FusionReactor is a testament … Read More

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FusionReactor: Your trusted, best value, award-winning system-wide monitoring solution

Monitoring platform that exceeds our clients’ expectations FusionReactor stands out for exceptional performance and unparalleled value in the dynamic digital technology landscape. We are excited to announce that, once again, in Winter 2024, FusionReactor has been honored with multiple prestigious … Read More

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Attention FusionReactor Cloud users: Important upgrade required for FusionReactor version 8 and 9 users. Action by Feb 29 2024

See important post update February 28, 2024 Attention FusionReactor Cloud users: Important upgrade required for version 8 & 9 users Action required by Feb 29, 2024 Over time, we’ve made substantial strides in enhancing the FusionReactor agent. These improvements not … Read More

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Why FusionReactor Cloud is a more affordable observability choice

Why is FusionReactor Cloud a more affordable observability choice? As businesses navigate the ever-evolving application management landscape, choosing the right observability solution is paramount to success. In a market saturated with options, FusionReactor Cloud emerges as the most affordable choice, … Read More

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Elevate your application’s performance in 2024 with FusionReactor APM: Five reasons to make the move

Elevate your application’s performance As we step into 2024, the world of applications is evolving faster than ever. Equipping your team with the right tools is crucial to stay ahead of the curve. FusionReactor APM and OpsPilot stand out as … Read More

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Create custom dashboards with FusionReactor: A step-by-step guide

Visualize your data in a way that best suits your needs In observability and monitoring, the ability to customize how you view your data is crucial. FusionReactor’s Pro and Advanced plans offer this flexibility by enabling users to create custom … Read More

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The gift of uptime assurance: FusionReactor’s role in seamless holiday operations

Performance issues, outages, and frustrated customers The holiday season is a make-or-break time for many businesses. While increased customer engagement and sales are welcome, the strain on digital infrastructure and applications can lead to performance issues, outages, and frustrated customers. … Read More

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Keeping your systems merry and bright: Essential holiday monitoring with FusionReactor

Significant challenges, increased web traffic, heightened user expectations The holiday season is upon us, and while it’s a time for joy and celebration, it’s also when websites and applications face their most significant challenges. Increased web traffic, heightened user expectations, … Read More

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FusionReactor: A G2.com award-winning observability platform you can trust

In the dynamic world of digital technology, FusionReactor stands out as a beacon of excellence. We are proud to announce that FusionReactor has been honored with several prestigious badges from G2.com, including “High Performer”, “Best Support”, “Users Most Likely to … Read More

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Announcement: FusionReactor Cloud Incident on November 7th, 2023

We want to openly discuss a recent incident that affected our service on November 7th, 2023. Incident Details: On November 7th, we identified a software defect that allowed a user to access data beyond their permission scope, which led to … Read More

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Navigating performance challenges: OpsPilot’s bottom-up approach

Uncover the root causes of performance bottlenecks In the ever-evolving application management landscape, addressing performance issues swiftly and effectively is paramount. OpsPilot, armed with a bottom-up approach, offers a unique solution to uncover the root causes of performance bottlenecks. In … Read More

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Deep dive into log monitoring & management with FusionReactor

Deep dive into log monitoring In a digital landscape where data drives decision-making, log monitoring and management have become indispensable. FusionReactor, an observability platform, is at the forefront of offering robust log monitoring solutions. This blog post will serve as … Read More

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The impact of AI to enhance customer engagement

The likelihood is that you’ve recently interacted with AI, possibly without even realizing it. AI is revolutionizing numerous aspects of business, enhancing processes and efficiency. The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) has driven positive growth and transformation across various industries, … Read More

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FusionReactor: The next-gen solution for application performance monitoring

The ultimate solution for monitoring your application’s performance, stability, and more Introduction In today’s competitive digital landscape, application performance can make or break your business. Enter FusionReactor, the ultimate solution for monitoring your application’s performance, stability, and much more. Unveiling … Read More

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Advanced Features of FusionReactor Cloud for Enhanced Observability

Introduction Now that you’re familiar with the basics of FusionReactor, it’s time to dive deeper into the more advanced features of FusionReactor Cloud. This post will cover everything from intelligent event linkage to database monitoring. Span Metrics dashboard FusionReactor Cloud’s … Read More

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Enhancing application reliability: How OpsPilot Assistant detects errors and anomalies

Error and anomaly detection In the ever-evolving application management landscape, swiftly detecting errors and anomalies is paramount. Enter OpsPilot Assistant, your vigilant partner in continuous monitoring, designed to identify issues in real-time proactively. This blog will explore how OpsPilot Assistant … Read More

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Empowering your application’s peak performance with OpsPilot Assistant

  Enhance you applications performance Maintaining your application’s peak performance is the heartbeat of success in application management. Ensuring your application delivers the desired functionality, responsiveness, and efficiency level is paramount. Enter OpsPilot Assistant, your dedicated team of experts focused … Read More

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Revolutionizing system health monitoring with OpsPilot

Optimize your resolution process for maximum efficiency OpsPilot Assistant unlocks a world of possibilities, revolutionizing system health monitoring is just one of them. Initiate a sequence of automated system assessments, swiftly surfacing potential issues across your entire environment. Alternatively, you … Read More

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JDBC monitoring vs Database monitoring

JDBC monitoring vs Database monitoring A comprehensive guide with FusionReactor In today’s increasingly interconnected world, the database forms the backbone of most applications and services. Therefore, monitoring your database to ensure it performs optimally is not a luxury but a … Read More

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5 biggest performance issues in PHP and how to avoid them

will discuss five of the biggest performance issues in PHP and how you can avoid them. There are several factors that can contribute to performance problems in PHP applications, including:   5 Biggest Performance Issues in PHP Slow database queries … Read More

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5 biggest performance issues in Go and how to solve them

5 biggest performance issues in Go and how to solve them Go (also known as Golang) is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is syntactically similar to C, … Read More

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What’s new in FusionReactor

In this update, we are thrilled to unveil a host of enhancements designed to revolutionize your experience with FusionReactor. … Read More

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Anomaly detection in Application Performance Monitoring

Anomaly detection in Application Performance Monitoring Ensuring optimal performance is paramount in the ever-evolving landscape of software applications and systems. As modern infrastructures become more complex, detecting anomalies and potential issues in real time is crucial for maintaining smooth and … Read More

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What’s new in FusionReactor 10.0.2 (Part one)

In this blog, we’ll delve into the exciting features of FusionReactor’s new Redis Dashboard, its seamless integration capabilities with Kafka and Elasticsearch, the future-focused OpsPilot AI, and the game-changing Kubernetes cluster monitoring. … Read More

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Monitoring’s cardinality challenge

Monitoring’s cardinality challenge Why the challenge of monitoring that data becomes increasingly complex In the world of technology, monitoring is essential for ensuring that systems and applications are running smoothly and efficiently. Monitoring tools collect and analyze data from various … Read More

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Werde Meister im Troubleshooting von Java-Anwendungen mit FusionReactor & OpsPilot AI auf dem Java Forum Stuttgart

Werde Meister im Troubleshooting von Java-Anwendungen mit FusionReactor & OpsPilot AI auf dem Java Forum Stuttgart! Bist du es leid, bei der Fehlersuche in Java-Anwendungen Zeit und Mühe zu verschwenden? Mach dich bereit, deine Herangehensweise zu revolutionieren und die Konkurrenz … Read More

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Shipping Kubernetes monitoring data to FusionReactor Cloud

Shipping Kubernetes monitoring data to FusionReactor Cloud Introduction to Kubernetes     Kubernetes (pronounced coo-ber-net-ees)  is a Greek word meaning “helmsman” or “pilot”.  Kubernetes (also known as K8s) is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates containerized applications’ deployment, scaling, and … Read More

Five biggest performance issues in C#

C# is a powerful and versatile programming language that can also be slow. If you’re not careful, your C# applications can become bogged down by performance issues. In this blog post, we’ll discuss the five most significant performance issues in … Read More

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Shipping OpenTelemetry data with FusionReactor Cloud

In this blog post, we’ll explore the benefits of shipping OpenTelemetry data to FusionReactor and how it can help developers and operations teams better understand and optimize their applications. … Read More

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Instrumenting OTel in FusionReactor

Instrumenting OTel What is OpenTelemetry?   OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework that aims to make it easier to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data from software applications and systems. It provides a set of standard APIs, libraries, and … Read More

Observability with Otel Integration: A Guide to Improving the Performance and Reliability of Your Applications

A Guide to Improving the Performance and Reliability of Your Applications … Read More

The Benefits of Distributed Tracing for Developers and DevOps

The Benefits of Distributed Tracing for Developers and DevOps with FusionReactor Observability has become an essential aspect of modern software development and operations. With the rise of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, it has become increasingly challenging to monitor and … Read More

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Best Observability Platform for SMBs

Best Observability Platform for SMBs What is an observability platform? Observability platforms are tools that help organizations understand the behavior and performance of their applications. They provide real-time and historical metrics, log monitoring and analysis, and distributed tracing to help … Read More

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Maximizing Performance: An In-Depth Look at Software Tuning and the Use of APM Tools

Maximizing Performance: An In-Depth Look at Software Tuning and the Use of APM Tools What is Application Performance tuning? Performance tuning is an essential process for maximizing the performance of any software system. Performance tuning aims to optimize the system’s … Read More

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What Causes java.lang.OutOfMemoryError?

What Causes java.lang.OutOfMemoryError? Java.lang.OutOfMemoryError is a common error that can occur in a Java application. It occurs when the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) runs out of memory and is unable to allocate any more memory to the application. There are several … Read More

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5 Common Errors You May See in Java Stack Traces and How to Avoid Them

5 Common Errors You May See in Java Stack Traces and How to Avoid Them 5 Common Errors You May See in Java Stack Traces Many different types of errors can occur in a Java application. The specific errors you … Read More

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Save 25% on Adobe ColdFusion Upgrades

[vc_row height=”small”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] Exclusive ColdFusion Upgrade Promo from FusionReactor [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Adobe ColdFusion Sale. Upgrades to Adobe ColdFusion are now available at an exclusive rate, saving you 25% of the usual price. Upgrade to ColdFusion 21 if you have CF9, 10, 11, … Read More

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What causes a classnotfound exception in Java

Demystifying ClassNotFoundException in Java: Causes and Solutions As a Java developer, you’ve likely encountered the dreaded ClassNotFoundException at some point in your coding journey. This exception can be frustrating, but understanding its causes can help you quickly resolve the issue … Read More

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Intellij Memory Leak detection

Detecting Memory Leaks in IntelliJ: How FusionReactor’s Observability Suite Can Help Memory leaks are a common issue in Java applications, and IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA are no exception. These leaks can lead to decreased performance, increased resource consumption, and even … Read More

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Tips for Improving the Performance of Your Python Code

Tips for Improving the Performance of Your Python Code Python is a powerful and versatile programming language, but it can be slow at times. Here are five of the most common performance issues in Python, and how to fix them … Read More

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The 5 Biggest Performance Issues in JavaScript and How to Fix Them

The 5 Biggest Performance Issues in JavaScript and How to Fix Them JavaScript is a powerful language, but it can also be slow. If you’re not careful, your JavaScript code can slow down your website or web application. There are … Read More

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Rust Performance Optimization: A Guide to Avoiding the 5 Biggest Performance Issues

Rust performance optimization: A guide to avoiding the 5 biggest performance issues Rust is a powerful and versatile programming language that can also be slow. If you’re not careful, your Rust applications can become bogged down by performance issues. In … Read More

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Ruby Performance Optimization: A Guide to Avoiding the 5 Biggest Performance Issues

Ruby Performance Optimization Ruby is a powerful and versatile programming language that can also be slow. If you’re not careful, your Ruby applications can become bogged down by performance issues. In this blog post; Ruby Performance Optimization we’ll discuss Ruby’s … Read More

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Jprofiler Vs FusionReactor

JProfiler Vs FusionReactor Compare JProfiler with FusionReactor based on customer opinion If you are considering implementing a Static Code Monitoring tool and comparing FusionReactor with JProfiler, then looking at the reviews on G2.com is a great place to start. Reviews on G2.com … Read More

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How to Improve the Performance of Your C++ Applications with FusionReactor

How to Improve the Performance of Your C++ Applications C++ is a powerful language, but it can also be slow. If you’re not careful, your C++ code can slow down your application. There are a number of performance issues that … Read More

What causes a ClassNotFoundException in Java

In our article “5 Common errors you may see in Java Stack Traces and how to avoid them“, we took a quick look at the ClassNotFoundException; in this article, we discuss what causes this exception and how you can avoid … Read More

How to fix an Array Index Out Of Bounds Exception in Java

How to fix an Array Index Out Of Bounds Exception in Java In this article, we will look at An Array Index Out Of Bounds Exception in Java, which is the common exception you might come across in a stack trace. An array … Read More

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Announcing FusionReactor 9.0

We are very proud to announce the release of FusionReactor 9.0, which represents a major milestone for FusionReactor and has been almost 2 years in the making. FusionReactor has always been about helping engineers, support, and DevOps to get to … Read More

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OpenTelemetry and how it will influence FusionReactor

OpenTelemetry and how it will influence FusionReactor At the core of FusionReactor, we have an agent, and the agent’s task is to instrument the application and capture telemetry in the form of metrics and trace data.  Every journey in the … Read More

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JProfiler alternatives

JProfiler alternatives – Comparing JProfiler with FusionReactor – the battle of the profilers In this post, we look at the JProfiler alternative FusionReactor and how the two compare. In our previous blog posts, we compared FusionReactor with open source java … Read More

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Troubleshooting TestBox Code Coverage with FusionReactor

This blog will investigate troubleshooting TestBox Code coverage using FusionReactor. What is TestBox? TestBox is a robust testing framework for ColdFusion (CFML) that many developers rely on for producing both unit and behavior-driven (BDD) tests for their web applications. What … Read More

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FusionReactor 8.8.0 Released

FusionReactor 8.8.0 has been released with the following enhancements: We now will send CF metrics up to the cloud Display additional DB request details, such as row count and DB, and API summary information The graph rendering is now capable … Read More

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How to Monitor Non Heap Memory Using FusionReactor

How to Monitor Non-Heap Memory Using FusionReactor In order to monitor non-heap memory, we first need to understand what it is. Non-heap memory refers to native memory that the JVM uses for some of its operations. This memory is used … Read More

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Alternatives to jstack and jcmd

Alternatives to jstack and jcmd Comparing jstack and jcmd with FusionReactor – see how much more you get In one of our previous blog post, we compared Java VisualVM with FusionReactor. Today we will look at alternatives to jstack and … Read More

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Java Visualvm alternatives

What can FusionReactor (the Jvisual alternative) do that Java VisualVM can’t? This article compares both tools; which will work best for your use cases? … Read More

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New dashboards to help you troubleshoot in a new holistic way

New dashboards to help you troubleshoot in a new holistic way FusionReactor is evolving from APM to an observability platform, this means that we will be offering new dashboards to help you troubleshoot in a new holistic way with support … Read More

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Getting observability into a distributed system

Get observability into a distributed system FusionReactor is evolving from APM to an observability platform that allows you to get observability into a distributed system. This means that we will be offering a more holistic view of distributed services with … Read More

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How to debug in production

How to debug in production Debugging in production has always been something that we try our best to avoid, with multiple QA phases, staging environments, and automation to stop production bugs. Despite this, occasionally a bug will find its way … Read More

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Understand how long ColdFusion requests are taking to execute

Using FusionReactor Cloud Transactions to understand how long ColdFusion requests are taking to execute In his recent blog, Ben Nadel explains how he is using the FusionReactor Cloud tracked transactions to understand how long ColdFusion requests were taking to execute. Ben explains … Read More

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How to troubleshoot slow running requests in microservices

How to troubleshoot slow running requests in microservices  we are running 3 microservices and for this use case, we have an issue with a long-running request.   We will then take a look at FusionReactor and see how it picks … Read More

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Troubleshooting high CPU usage in Java environments

How to troubleshoot high CPU usage In this scenario, our CPU is spinning at an abnormally high rate. We will then take a look at FusionReactor and see how it picks up this issue. For the test environment, we are … Read More

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Using FusionReactor APM to identify deadlock conditions in your Java applications

How to identify deadlock conditions in Java In this use case, we will examine how to identify deadlock conditions in Java environments. We will then take a look at FusionReactor and see how it picks up this issue. For the … Read More

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LogQL cheat sheet

LogQL Cheat Sheet This cheat sheet highlights different patterns for querying FusionReactor LogQL. Introducing FusionReactor Log query Language FusionReactor queries log with its unique log query language called LogQL, often distributed as grep besides labels for filtering. There are two … Read More

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Parse Variable Patterns using Regex

What is parsing? Parsing is a very important process when handling logs because it lets users filter logs in useful ways. Unstructured logs can easily be shared into attribute (key/value) pairs, which helps to create improved alerts and charts. There … Read More

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How to Parse JSON data in JavaScript

Assuming that you’ve used a web app before, there is a strong possibility that it uses JSON format to create a framework, store and transmit data between its servers and connected devices. JavaScript Object Notation, which is popularly known as … Read More

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FusionReactor 8.7.7 Released

FusionReactor 8.7.7 has been released. With enhancements including improved alert emails, SpringBoot fixes, and more. Enhancements to Crash Protection API and DB time can now be found in both the request log and Crash Protection emails, making it easier to … Read More

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New beta release – log alerting

Our most powerful alerting engine Log Alerting is now in beta and all beta users will immediately have access to this powerful query-based alerting engine. Set alerts on FusionReactor logs and ingested third-party logs. Your log data can be used … Read More

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How to use Log Dashboards to gain actionable insight

How to use Log Dashboards to gain actionable insight Logs have many valuable functions; they contain a considerable amount of data. Using log query languages such as LogQL allows you to get fantastic insights, but they rely on running queries … Read More

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Diagnosing a server attack using logs

Diagnosing a server attack using logs  Imagine that your server is under attack. How would you diagnose the issue and understand its impact? You may have been aware of previous attacks and have seen significant spikes coming into your server. … Read More

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Using logs to easily diagnose a server crash

Reasons for a server crash Java can crash in several ways and for several reasons. Sometimes it’s not easy to diagnose a server crash. For example, Your JVM may still be operational, but you cannot process requests anymore. Part of your application breaks … Read More

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Finding hidden exceptions in your application

What are hidden errors and why do you need to find them? Hidden exceptions can occur by design. For example, adding a try-catch block into your code is an easy way to prevent errors from displaying to your users and … Read More

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What are logs and why do I need to monitor them?

What are logs, and why do I need to monitor them? Let’s start by clarifying the basics. Logs are recordings of events that have taken place while an application runs. Some are automatically created, and some are explicitly developed – … Read More

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What is log alerting?

Log alerting Log alerting allows you to set rules based on any log that is ingested either by an external log agent or the FusionReactor agent. It is relatively simple to set up query-based alerts in LogQL. You can utilize … Read More

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Obfuscation added to log monitoring

Obfuscation in logs is now in beta Passwords, credit card information, and API keys are automatically obfuscated in logs sent from FR. However, should you have switched obfuscation in logs off in the UI, then you may need to manually … Read More

FusionReactor 8.x Release Notes

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Why monitor a monolithic server

Why monitor a monolithic server? It is quite challenging to improve the performance of a monolithic server application. Change is difficult when things are tightly coupled. Unlike microservices, where things are more likely to be managed by development teams. However, … Read More

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OTel Tracing stability milestone reached

OTel Tracing stability milestone reached OTel Tracing stability milestone reached with OpenTelemetry Collector. As a result, OpenTelemetry Collector has released its first GA version. With version 0.36.0, the tracing components come with stability guarantees for tracing in the OpenTelemetry Protocol … Read More

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APM – Whats new in Application Performance monitoring

What is an APM (Application Performance Monitor) Application Performance Monitors (APMs) help developers and DevOps professionals improve the performance of an application and identify errors and exceptions in the code. So, the APM identifies and diagnoses complex application performance problems … Read More

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Log4j vulnerability Important information for ColdFusion, Lucee, and Java users 

Log4j CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 Log4 Shell vulnerability Important information for ColdFusion, Lucee, and Java users  Updated December 16, 2021 Does FusionReactor need updating to fix the vulnerability? The FusionReactor agent does not depend on or utilize Log4j, so is not … Read More

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VueJS 101 for CFML Devs

VueJS 101 for CFML Devs I’ve been stumbling across a fair few developers recently who like the idea of using VueJS, but are not sure how to get started. VueJS can be used to build whole applications, but sometimes the … Read More

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Webinar – Distributed tracing and on-prem observability

Introducing Distributed tracing and on-prem observability In this webinar, Nick and Mikey will give an update on where FusionReactor is in its Observability journey. We will talk about using metrics, logs, and tracing in a smart way to help you … Read More

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Benefits of observability and monitoring

Using observability and monitoring There’s an increasing demand for flexible observability and monitoring solutions that can collect all the data about their environment in one place by organizations, businesses, and developers. First off, you can only monitor an observable system. … Read More

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Effective ways to Avoid Application Performance Overhead with Log data

Effective ways to Avoid Application Performance Overhead with Log data It becomes critical for every forward-thinking organization to adopt effective ways to avoid performance overhead when managing their logs. Log data remains an untapped or poorly managed resource for many … Read More

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Best practices to optimize and enhance log data

Best practices to optimize and enhance log data Best practices to optimize and enhance log data, such as data compression and log parsing, should be considered effective ways to minimize the mounting costs of monitoring and querying logs. The massive … Read More

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What you need to know about distributed tracing

This article will guide you on what you need to know about distributed tracing, why it matters, and when your organization can implement it. … Read More

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How to create fast LogQL queries to filter terabytes of logs per second with FusionReactor

How to create fast LogQL queries to filter terabytes of logs per second with FusionReactor Performance matters when retrieving or analyzing data. This is why the need to create fast queries which filter terabytes of logs is critical because fast … Read More

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Unmasking unstructured logs with FusionReactor Cloud Logging LogQL pattern parser

Unmasking unstructured logs with FusionReactor Cloud Logging LogQL pattern parser Log data represents untapped or mismanaged resources for many organizations. Even if they can harness valuable insights from structured logs through their log management system, unmasking unstructured logs pose the … Read More

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Options in Observability

There are different options in observability. I&O leaders will need to sieve through the possibilities in observability to pick the right choice for their enterprise. Deciding on what observability pipeline to settle for entails a lot of decisive steps and … Read More

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The Effective Way To Enforce A Logging Policy

The effective way to enforce a logging policy involves strategies and practices to ensure that logs are monitored adequately. These strategies include; defining the access and notification policy, communicating a logging policy enterprise-wide, and assigning a policy marshall. We have … Read More

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Beware Ransomware Attacks on Very Old ColdFusion Servers (CF9 and 8)

Beware Ransomware Attacks on Very Old ColdFusion Servers (CF9 and 8) It’s always risky to run old versions of software, of course, and that problem is hitting home for those who may still be running very old versions of Adobe … Read More

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Roadmap To Observability and How You Can Align Your Enterprise

Monitoring alone cannot handle the complexities that come with microservices, cloud computing etc. This is therefore when Observability comes into play here. Most importantly, a roadmap to observability. Whether you like it or not, changes in enterprise tech, application, and … Read More

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What You Need To Know About Observability: Benefit and Principles

Observability is not a factor to ignore due to the ever-increasing technologies and services modern enterprise solutions require. To name a few – cloud, DevOps, microservices, containers, serverless, etc. The benefits of utilizing observability tools are clear as this increases … Read More

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Integrating Logging and Monitoring – Best Practices

Logging and monitoring play essential roles in maximizing application performance. They play roles that are crucial when deploying and managing an application to meet availability and performance expectations. Although the former and the latter play distinguished roles, they work perfectly … Read More

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Framework For Deploying Centralized Log Monitoring

Framework For Deploying Centralized Log Monitoring Imagine this –  you are recently employed as a DevOps manager at a big fintech company. You are on-call duty. During the night, your sleep is interrupted by an explosion of phone notifications. Your … Read More

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A Beginner’s Guide to Troubleshooting Slow Pages in FusionReactor

Beginner’s Guide to Troubleshooting Slow Pages in FusionReactor By: David Levin, CEO and Big Kahuna of Angry Sam Productions, Inc. It happens to just about every developer, client, or boss who calls out of the blue and complains that one … Read More

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Effective Ways To Identify and Fix Application Performance Issues

Building poor Java performance scripts can generate lots of negative results in the long run. This includes page load delays resulting in frustrated page visitors and reduction in sales conversions, including several other effects. However, in this post, we’ll look … Read More

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Tracing vs Logging vs Monitoring: Why Are They Different?

This article will discuss why these three crucial cloud-native concepts are different; Tracing vs Logging vs Monitoring. When debugging microservices or even a vast monolith system, it can get overwhelming for system admins to figure out the root cause of … Read More

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Testing and Improving Database Performance Using FRAPI

Testing and Improving Database Performance Using FRAPI So the other day, I spotted a MySQL query (InnoDB, 5.27 if you’re interested) which was feeling non-performant. I should also point out, that SQL and testing and improving database performance are really … Read More

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Revisiting CFML Operators In Lucee

Revisiting CFML Operators In Lucee Operators are ubiquitous. As developers, we use them every day, and maybe even in every line of code. Why is it then, I never seem to find the time to revisit these language essentials? Perhaps … Read More

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Logging vs. Monitoring: How Are They Different & Why You Need Both?

Logging vs. Monitoring? It is practically impossible to talk about application deployment and management without squeezing logging and monitoring into the sentence. They are imperative when deploying and managing an application to meet availability and performance expectations. Although they perform … Read More

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Getting Started – Configuring FusionReactor APM

This blog is going to take you through the basics of configuring FusionReactor APM to get an amazing experience out of FusionReactor. Most configurations of FusionReactor are fine “out of the box”, but making small changes to tailor it to … Read More

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Performance issues in legacy Java applications – comparing different investigative techniques

Performance issues in legacy Java applications If you ever had some serious issues with the performance of your Java application, most probably you know how valuable thread profiling can be. But do you know which profiler you should use? There … Read More

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How To Install FRAM (FusionReactor Administration Manager) On Your Server

Installing FusionReactor Administration Manager On Your Application Server FRAM or the FusionReactor administration manager is installed through the automated installer. It contains the instance manager that will find and configure FusionReactor in your application server for you. This installation approach … Read More

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How To Monitor A Legacy Java Application

How To Monitor A Legacy Java Application Many progressive organizations with legacy Java applications go through the same phase of not knowing when to deploy application modernization strategies on Legacy apps. If they jump on the bandwagon too fast, they … Read More

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Debugging Java In Production With FusionReactor

FusionReactor is a developer-focused production-grade monitoring tool for monolithic servers and distributed servers. It’s designed for software developers, technical support, and DevOps. Its main objective is to show you exactly why your application is running slowly or breaking in production. … Read More

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Automatic Root Cause Error Analysis

Event Snapshots Event Snapshots are intended to provide deep-level insight whenever a problem, such as an exception or thread latency occurs. Snapshots are triggered automatically. The Event Snapshot provides automatic root cause error analysis by displaying source code, scope variables, … Read More

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FusionReactor Dashboards

In this blog, we are going to cover the dashboards available in FusionReactor. What Are FusionReactor Dashboards? Dashboards allow you to see the health of your environment with a quick glance. FusionReactor Dashboards allow for instances to be grouped or … Read More

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Understanding Metrics In FusionReactor

In this blog we are going to cover the metrics available in FusionReactor. Metrics in FusionReactor are stored in memory on the local FusionReactor instance and stored both in log files and the cloud. Logs in FusionReactor are available for … Read More

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FusionReactor CPU Alerting and Crash Protection

FusionReactor CPU Alerting and Crash Protection In this blog, we’re going to show you a great feature of FusionReactor, which is how to configure CPU Alerting for Crash Protection. This Alert is based on the “Instance” CPU, rather than the … Read More

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How To Copy Configurations Between Instances In FusionReactor

Copying configurations between instances is important for anyone wanting to deploy multiple copies of FusionReactor. Whether this is done via scripting, virtualization, or installing FusionReactor on each server manually. It allows you to have an instance with pre-configured settings like … Read More

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Top 5 Things To Check When Releasing An Application

Introduction To Application Checks Testing before you deploy to production can only do so much in preparing you for when the application goes live. Small changes in environment and user behavior can cause unforeseen issues that you should be aware … Read More

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Managing Java Application Performance

Nowadays, Java Application Performance Monitor (APM) is doubly important because Java-based applications enable many critical IT services to run a business enterprise smoothly. Additionally, several production installations utilize home-grown application components which run on Java application servers. For example, Oracle … Read More

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When and Why To Use Node.js For Backend Development

Set up on Chrome’s JavaScript V8 engine, Node.js is an open-source JavaScript runtime environment. It works from the back-end across various platforms to carry out code (in JavaScript) independent of a web browser. Using Node.js, software developers can now use … Read More

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Why Should You Learn GoLang?

In the last few years, web development has seen the noteworthy rise of a new programming language called Go (or GoLang). However, given the existence, and sufficiency of other programming languages such as Java and Python, you might find yourself … Read More

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Why Should You Develop With Python?

Python has increased in popularity during the past few years. It has even surpassed Java. This programming language grew in demand due to the rise in machine learning. A lot of developers use python for data analysis and web application … Read More

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What Is OpenTelemetry and Why Should You Care?

OpenTelemetry is an impartial and standard way to gather the required data for applications, along with their supporting infrastructures and services. The most advanced data available now are spans and traces, while automated instrumentation, metrics, and additional languages are still … Read More

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Changing FusionReactor’s “Slow Request Threshold”, Why and How

You may have noticed in the FusionReactor UI that requests which are “slow” have their duration show up in red in the FusionReactor UI. The default is 8 seconds, but what if you would prefer to lower that duration to … Read More

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Multithreading and Multiprocessing

Multithreading and Multiprocessing: Selecting the right approach for your development Why are multithreading and multiprocessing used? Simultaneously executing programming tasks before now had always been daunting. But today, many programming languages support Multithreading and Multiprocessing, which aids concurrent execution of … Read More

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How to debug in production

How to debug in production Debugging in production has always been something that we try our best to avoid, with multiple QA phases, staging environments, and automation to stop production bugs. Despite this, occasionally a bug will find its way … Read More

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Are Subscription Services Really The Future Of Gaming Industries?

Over the years, the gaming industry has gradually transitioned from a linear model of selling products to gamers, to a dynamic subscription model. Subscription services seem to be the face of the new era of games.  Thanks to gaming subscription … Read More

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Samsung vs Huawei vs Apple Battle for Top Smartphone Maker in 2021

The year 2020 wasn’t a propitious year for many of us. Especially for the top smartphone makers ̶ Samsung, Huawei, and of course, US tech giant— Apple, who were looking to increase their market share value. The race to the … Read More

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Watermarking PDFs In Lucee 5.3.7 Without Using CFPDF

Watermarking PDFs In Lucee 5.3.7 Without using CFPDF Recently, I’ve needed to add a watermark to PDFs but struggled with Lucee’s current implementation in 5.3.x..  Watermarking PDFs In Lucee 5.3.7 without using CFPDF is usually pretty straightforward, via <code> <cfpdf action=”addwatermark” … Read More

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Why Load Test ColdFusion Apps (4 Reasons)

By Michaela Light, CEO of TeraTech Let’s make sure that your new ColdFusion app doesn’t crash immediately after launch – by effective load testing. In this article, we will look at 4 reasons why load test ColdFusion Apps. You will … Read More

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The Difference Between Spring Framework vs. Spring Boot

What is the difference between Spring Framework vs. Spring Boot? When it comes to building Java-based applications, the Spring Framework and Spring Boot are two popular options. Both frameworks are developed and maintained by the Spring community and provide a … Read More

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Why Do I Need an Application Performance Monitor (APM) Tool?

Why Do I Need an Application Performance Monitor (APM) Tool? Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a technique that is a must-have for every serious-minded DevOps team. When it comes to employing the best practices for present-day software development, application Performance … Read More

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What is the Difference Between Observability and Monitoring

Observability Vs. Monitoring: Why a Developer needs Both Given the complexity of distributing the evolving cloud-based services and infrastructures across a diverse range of users, IT service providers consistently observe and monitor metrics, datasets, and logs. Establishing system reliability and … Read More

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What is observability

What is Observability: What Every Developer Should Know The ability to always know what a system does goes beyond trying to figure out if a particular functionality is operational or not. Having observability will enable you to determine what specific … Read More

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Finding and fixing Spring Data JPA performance issues with FusionReactor

Finding and fixing Spring Data JPA performance issues with FusionReactor For several years, Spring Data JPA has established itself as one of the most commonly used persistence frameworks in the Java world. It gets most of its features from the … Read More

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Basic Load Testing With Locust

Basic load testing with Locust No-one likes to get caught out with scaling issues. Your app or site goes viral, or you simply get a tonne of unexpected traffic through a favourable blog post, and without some preparation, all hell … Read More

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ColdFusion and Microservices

The all-new Adobe ColdFusion 2021 has just been released with dozens of features introduced to boost efficiency, security, scalability, language improvement, in addition to much newer instruments for performance monitoring and profiling. A substantial focus of CF2021 is support of … Read More

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Black Friday Deals

Discounted CF2021 price and Free FusionReactor APM Software If you are looking to purchase CF 2021 then this is the perfect time as not only do we sell ColdFusion at a discounted price; we will also give you a FusionReactor … Read More

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ColdFusion Performance Issues and Troubleshooting

With ColdFusion being one of the most powerful and robust Java development platforms for web application development, it does not automatically eliminate the presence of certain parameters that could lead to a performance issue on a ColdFusion server.  You’ll find … Read More

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FusionReactor 8.6.0 Released

FusionReactor 8.6.0 released yesterday – November 18, 2020 Following the recent Adobe release, we are pleased to announce that FusionReactor has been updated and fully supports ColdFusion 2021.  We also support CF 2021 in our instance manager and if you … Read More

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Adobe ColdFusion 2018 Versus Lucee

Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee are two leading web application development tools based on CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) code. Adobe ColdFusion was initially developed to connect HTML and the database easily. With the release of Adobe ColdFusion 2018, a full-blown scripting language … Read More

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A Guide To Understanding ColdFusion Metrics and System Metrics

The ColdFusion Metrics and System Metrics have similar features but differ by their distinct graphical illustration pages displaying such information as processed requests and management internal requests. ColdFusion Metrics and System Metrics are slated for a specific version of the … Read More

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Performance Issue With Redis Session Management On Adobe ColdFusion Servers With FusionReactor Or Adobe Performance Monitoring Toolset (PMT)

Introduction We recently had a performance issue with Redis session management in FusionReactor where a user saw a high CPU when running FusionReactor reported to our technical support team. Upon investigating the issue, we found this was due to both … Read More

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How To Retain FusionReactor Logs In Docker Environment

When running in a docker based environment it can be difficult to retain the logs for your application and for the monitoring tools that you use. To overcome this there are several options that you can use: An external platform … Read More

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Accelerate the DevOps Pipeline with ColdFusion Enterprise 2021

Following our recent series on the latest version of ColdFusion Enterprise 2021 (CF2021), which was released a week ago, this segment will highlight how to expedite the DevOps pipeline using the latest release. Among the nearly 60 updates added to … Read More

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These days the development of software is a rapidly changing process. The introduction of cloud hosting and containerization has made big applications running in your server room a thing of the past. Where before you would maintain one or two … Read More

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The best tool for Diagnosing issues with CF/Tomcat

“The best tool for Diagnosting issues with CF/Tomcat” What do you like best? Lets you dig into running apps and stack traces and find causes for slow running pages and hangs and kill stuck threads. What do you dislike? Can … Read More

Just as useful as a development tool as it is for production debugging

Just as useful as a development tool as it is for production debugging What do you like best? FR is very polished with tons of data. Automatic JDBC wrapping takes zero setup and nearly every screen or dashboard is customizable. … Read More

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Just as useful as a development tool as it is for production debugging

Just as useful as a development tool as it is for production debugging What do you like best? FR is very polished with tons of data. Automatic JDBC wrapping takes zero setup and nearly every screen or dashboard is customizable. … Read More

Couldn’t do without it!

What do you like best? The ability to be able to see instantly exactly what is going on with my applications, in real time, and to be able to quickly and efficiently pinpoint and debug issues all in one package. … Read More

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Couldn’t do without it!

What do you like best? The ability to be able to see instantly exactly what is going on with my applications, in real time, and to be able to quickly and efficiently pinpoint and debug issues all in one package. … Read More

FusionReactor is Enlightening

“enlightening!” What do you like best? ability to quickly identify issues quickly historical logs and trends using powerful graphing tools What do you dislike? having to install and manage agent updates (although it is relatively easy) What problems are you … Read More

FusionReactor is Enlightening

“enlightening!” What do you like best? ability to quickly identify issues quickly historical logs and trends using powerful graphing tools What do you dislike? having to install and manage agent updates (although it is relatively easy) What problems are you … Read More

Must have tool for ColdFusion performance monitoring

What do you like best? Being able to see all of the request details, e.g. activity, history, long running requests. The profiler is a killer feature. What do you dislike? Not really much to dislike, maybe the profiler UX could … Read More

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Must have tool for ColdFusion performance monitoring

What do you like best? Being able to see all of the request details, e.g. activity, history, long running requests. The profiler is a killer feature. What do you dislike? Not really much to dislike, maybe the profiler UX could … Read More

Mandatory Tool for ColdFusion

“Mandatory Tool for ColdFusion” What do you like best? The metrics that FusionReactor provides are by far the most used feature. The ability to drill down and find out specific memory or database issues is invaluable. What do you dislike? … Read More

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Mandatory Tool for ColdFusion

“Mandatory Tool for ColdFusion” What do you like best? The metrics that FusionReactor provides are by far the most used feature. The ability to drill down and find out specific memory or database issues is invaluable. What do you dislike? … Read More

Has the technology to monitor performance level at a high level working to debug issues working against software

What do you like best? Has the technology to monitor performance level at a high level working to debug issues working against software. What do you dislike? Software shows some grey areas in reference to processing time for performance to … Read More

Reliable developer focused Java application performance monitor

What do you like best? It has been able to help me analyse,diagnose and keep my servers alive. What do you dislike? Nothing, I dislike nothing about it and it has been a great experience. Recommendations to others considering the … Read More

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Has the technology to monitor performance level at a high level working to debug issues working against software

What do you like best? Has the technology to monitor performance level at a high level working to debug issues working against software. What do you dislike? Software shows some grey areas in reference to processing time for performance to … Read More

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Reliable developer focused Java application performance monitor

What do you like best? It has been able to help me analyse,diagnose and keep my servers alive. What do you dislike? Nothing, I dislike nothing about it and it has been a great experience. Recommendations to others considering the … Read More

Maven Surefire Stack Trace Problem

For some months we have been having problems with maven-surefire-plugin showing very strange exception stack traces. After some searching, I found out that maven-surefire-plugin has a trimStackTrace configuration option which is set to true by default. See http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html#trimStackTrace I have … Read More

Maven Surefire Stack Trace Problem

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] For some months we have been having problems with maven-surefire-plugin showing very strange exception stack traces. After some searching, I found out that maven-surefire-plugin has a trimStackTrace configuration option which is set to true by default. See http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html#trimStackTrace I … Read More

Asynchronous Transactions

FusionReactor is able to track asynchronous requests made with several different libraries, examples of which include:   Redisson MongoDB Kafka Java Clients OkHttp Apache HttpClient How FusionReactor Displays this Information The response to the asynchronous request is tracked with ‘Callback’ … Read More

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Asynchronous Transactions

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] FusionReactor is able to track asynchronous requests made with several different libraries, examples of which include:   Redisson MongoDB Kafka Java Clients OkHttp Apache HttpClient [/vc_column_text][us_separator size=”small”][vc_column_text] How FusionReactor Displays this Information The response to the asynchronous request is … Read More

FusionReactor: Use it every day to solve knotty problems or help guide tuning efforts

“Use it every day to solve knotty problems or help guide tuning efforts” What do you like best? Helps find issues quickly, easily, and safely; supporting complex or simple setups equally well. While its largest user base may be ColdFusion, … Read More

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FusionReactor: Use it every day to solve knotty problems or help guide tuning efforts

“Use it every day to solve knotty problems or help guide tuning efforts” What do you like best? Helps find issues quickly, easily, and safely; supporting complex or simple setups equally well. While its largest user base may be ColdFusion, … Read More

Great Java performance monitoring tool

Automated Root Cause Analysis. Provide deep level insight (source code, scope variables, stack traces) whenever a problem, such as an exception or thread latency occurs. Snapshots are triggered automatically. What do you dislike? I do not like the Enterprise Dashboard, … Read More

Great Java performance monitoring tool

Automated Root Cause Analysis. Provide deep level insight (source code, scope variables, stack traces) whenever a problem, such as an exception or thread latency occurs. Snapshots are triggered automatically. What do you dislike? I do not like the Enterprise Dashboard, … Read More

FusionReactor Is Perfect for CFML Troubleshooting

FusionReactor Is Perfect for CFML Troubleshooting “FusionReactor Is Perfect for CFML Troubleshooting” What do you like best? Being able to troubleshoot long-running web requests and SQL queries. Having access to the actual SQL that was generated is extremely helpful in … Read More

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FusionReactor Is Perfect for CFML Troubleshooting

FusionReactor Is Perfect for CFML Troubleshooting “FusionReactor Is Perfect for CFML Troubleshooting” What do you like best? Being able to troubleshoot long-running web requests and SQL queries. Having access to the actual SQL that was generated is extremely helpful in … Read More

Amazing account manager service

What do you like best? Amazing account manager service.  Andy McAuliffe answered my original query and persevered with a really positive outcome for the company. He regularly followed up with me to ask how things were going and to check … Read More

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Amazing account manager service

What do you like best? Amazing account manager service.  Andy McAuliffe answered my original query and persevered with a really positive outcome for the company. He regularly followed up with me to ask how things were going and to check … Read More

Microservice support in FusionReactor 8.2.0

In FusionReactor 8.2.0 we have added support for the Java application Frameworks okHTML, Spring Boot and Micronaut.  This brings the list of supported Java application frameworks to; Spring framework, Spring Boot, okHTML, Micronaut, Struts 2, Play, Vaadin, JSF, Vertx, Grizzly … Read More

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Microservice support in FusionReactor 8.2.0

In FusionReactor 8.2.0 we have added support for the Java application Frameworks okHTML, Spring Boot and Micronaut.  This brings the list of supported Java application frameworks to; Spring framework, Spring Boot, okHTML, Micronaut, Struts 2, Play, Vaadin, JSF, Vertx, Grizzly … Read More

ColdFusion Class Checker

FusionReactor is used to monitor many ColdFusion servers but our support team keeps seeing an issue that FusionReactor cannot solve. This issue is that some of the ColdFusion classes, for the template cache, become corrupt.  This corruption isn’t caused by … Read More

ColdFusion Class Checker

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] FusionReactor is used to monitor many ColdFusion servers but our support team keeps seeing an issue that FusionReactor cannot solve. This issue is that some of the ColdFusion classes, for the template cache, become corrupt.  This corruption isn’t caused … Read More

What’s new in 8.2

FusionReactor 8.2 has now been released; this release has been modelled around user feedback. what is LDAP? Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a client/server protocol used to access and manage directory information. It reads and edits directories over IP … Read More

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What’s new in 8.2

FusionReactor 8.2 has now been released; this release has been modelled around user feedback. what is LDAP? Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a client/server protocol used to access and manage directory information. It reads and edits directories over IP … Read More

FR Sponsor key CF events

Event season is nearly here and this year we are sponsoring ColdFusion events both in Europe and across the pond. We are Platinum Sponsor of CF Summit in Las Vegas  1st and 2nd October then the Silver sponsor of CF … Read More

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FR Sponsor key CF events

Event season is nearly here and this year we are sponsoring ColdFusion events both in Europe and across the pond. We are Platinum Sponsor of CF Summit in Las Vegas  1st and 2nd October then the Silver sponsor of CF … Read More

FusionReactor: Go beyond Monitoring

What do you like best? At its core FusionReactor is just like any other performance monitoring tool with its’ Measuring transaction of Memory and CPU Usage, alerting you for performance issues. But It goes beyond with the help of FusionReactor … Read More

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FusionReactor: Go beyond Monitoring

What do you like best? At its core FusionReactor is just like any other performance monitoring tool with its’ Measuring transaction of Memory and CPU Usage, alerting you for performance issues. But It goes beyond with the help of FusionReactor … Read More

25% off Velocity Berlin Tickets

FusionReactor is an Innovator sponsor at this years Velocity conference in Berlin this November. As a sponsor this means that we can offer you 25% Discount on tickets. Simply use the voucher code FusionReactor25 at registration and you can save … Read More

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25% off Velocity Berlin Tickets

FusionReactor is an Innovator sponsor at this years Velocity conference in Berlin this November. As a sponsor this means that we can offer you 25% Discount on tickets. Simply use the voucher code FusionReactor25 at registration and you can save … Read More

Notification capability for our servers for multiple and diverse events

“FusionReactor Monitor” What do you like best? Notification capability for our servers for multiple and diverse events. What do you dislike? So far it is meeting our expectations, and as we grow more complex we will continue to ensure that … Read More

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Notification capability for our servers for multiple and diverse events

“FusionReactor Monitor” What do you like best? Notification capability for our servers for multiple and diverse events. What do you dislike? So far it is meeting our expectations, and as we grow more complex we will continue to ensure that … Read More

A must have to debug ColdFusion server problems!

A must have to debug ColdFusion server problems! What do you like best? Comprehensive list of features that help pinpoint the source of problems when you face server problems. What do you dislike? Somewhat expensive VS built in coldfusion monitor … Read More

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A must have to debug ColdFusion server problems!

A must have to debug ColdFusion server problems! What do you like best? Comprehensive list of features that help pinpoint the source of problems when you face server problems. What do you dislike? Somewhat expensive VS built in coldfusion monitor … Read More

FusionReactor is a key tool I won’t do without”

“A key tool I won’t do without“ What do you like best? FusionReactor allows me to drill down and get unique insight and knowledge into what is happening with my web app and makes troubleshooting a breeze. What do you … Read More

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FusionReactor is a key tool I won’t do without”

“A key tool I won’t do without“ What do you like best? FusionReactor allows me to drill down and get unique insight and knowledge into what is happening with my web app and makes troubleshooting a breeze. What do you … Read More

Fusion-Reactor is a must-have for Java and ColdFusion admins

“Fusion-Reactor is a must-have for Java and ColdFusion admins“ What do you like best? The ability to quickly troubleshoot problems with an instance’s heap, cpu, web requests and so much more. The dashboard provides so much information in real-time. What … Read More

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Fusion-Reactor is a must-have for Java and ColdFusion admins

“Fusion-Reactor is a must-have for Java and ColdFusion admins“ What do you like best? The ability to quickly troubleshoot problems with an instance’s heap, cpu, web requests and so much more. The dashboard provides so much information in real-time. What … Read More

FusionReactor is the best thing to ever happen to CFML

FusionReactor is the best thing to ever happen to CFML What do you like best? FusionReactor allows me to monitor and quickly troubleshoot my ColdFusion and Lucee servers. You simply should not run an enterprise-grade ColdFusion application without it. I … Read More

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FusionReactor is the best thing to ever happen to CFML

FusionReactor is the best thing to ever happen to CFML What do you like best? FusionReactor allows me to monitor and quickly troubleshoot my ColdFusion and Lucee servers. You simply should not run an enterprise-grade ColdFusion application without it. I … Read More

Very solid product, indispensable during debugging

Very solid product, indispensable during debugging What do you like best? This product has saved so much time and effort. It is solid and seems to have little or no impact on the running of our applications. The interface is … Read More

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Very solid product, indispensable during debugging

Very solid product, indispensable during debugging What do you like best? This product has saved so much time and effort. It is solid and seems to have little or no impact on the running of our applications. The interface is … Read More

What’s new in FusionReactor 8.1.0

A summary of the exciting new features and improvements made in FusionReactor 8.1.0 FusionReactor 8.1.0 enhances its already powerful feature set A new debugging interface will make debugging in production quicker and easier Our Enterprise Dashboard will automatically detect and … Read More

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What’s new in FusionReactor 8.1.0

A summary of the exciting new features and improvements made in FusionReactor 8.1.0 FusionReactor 8.1.0 enhances its already powerful feature set A new debugging interface will make debugging in production quicker and easier Our Enterprise Dashboard will automatically detect and … Read More

If you don’t have FusionReactor get it now

“If you don’t have it yet, get it NOW“ What do you like best? Don’t know, theres too much… but favourites are: * That we are totally in control of our application server in Realtime * What the guys of … Read More

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If you don’t have FusionReactor get it now

“If you don’t have it yet, get it NOW“ What do you like best? Don’t know, theres too much… but favourites are: * That we are totally in control of our application server in Realtime * What the guys of … Read More

The De Facto Standard for ColdFusion / Java Application Monitoring

The De Facto Standard for ColdFusion / Java Application Monitoring What do you like best? FusionReactor is a necessary tool if you’re running a ColdFusion application of any appreciable size. Not helpful, not convenient. Necessary. It provides insights and alerts … Read More

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The De Facto Standard for ColdFusion / Java Application Monitoring

The De Facto Standard for ColdFusion / Java Application Monitoring What do you like best? FusionReactor is a necessary tool if you’re running a ColdFusion application of any appreciable size. Not helpful, not convenient. Necessary. It provides insights and alerts … Read More

A must have tool for monitoring CF apps

Latest review on G2 What do you like best? The most helpful feature of FusionReactor is the fact that you can introspect all the requests running in production. You can easily see how much time it takes to run a … Read More

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A must have tool for monitoring CF apps

Latest review on G2 What do you like best? The most helpful feature of FusionReactor is the fact that you can introspect all the requests running in production. You can easily see how much time it takes to run a … Read More

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FusionReactor and Your ColdFusion Queries

FusionReactor and Your ColdFusion Queries In my last article on FusionReactor, I talked about slow pages and how the tool helps you find them. In that article, I specifically avoided talking about one of the biggest culprits of slow pages – … Read More

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FusionReactor and Your ColdFusion Queries

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] FusionReactor and Your ColdFusion Queries In my last article on FusionReactor, I talked about slow pages and how the tool helps you find them. In that article, I specifically avoided talking about one of the biggest culprits of slow pages … Read More

Win Velocity 2019 Tickets

FusionReactor are sponsors of Velocity 2019 in San Jose June 10 – June 13 2019. Win Bronze Tickets Winning is easy, simply Start a new 14 day FusionReactor trial Tweet about your trial using the hashtag “ImTryingFusionReactor” This year Velocity … Read More

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Win Velocity 2019 Tickets

FusionReactor are sponsors of Velocity 2019 in San Jose June 10 – June 13 2019. Win Bronze Tickets Winning is easy, simply Start a new 14 day FusionReactor trial Tweet about your trial using the hashtag “ImTryingFusionReactor” This year Velocity … Read More

Changing your FusionReactor instance name, easily

Have you wished you could change the name given to your monitored instance in FusionReactor (the name that appears in the UI and various reports/emails)? Did you know you could change it easily, on the fly, from within the instance … Read MoreRead More

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Changing your FusionReactor instance name, easily

[vc_row][vc_column][us_separator size=”small”][vc_column_text] Have you wished you could change the name given to your monitored instance in FusionReactor (the name that appears in the UI and various reports/emails)? Did you know you could change it easily, on the fly, from within … Read MoreRead More

FusionReactor is sponsoring the 2019 O’Reilly Velocity conference in San Jose. June 10 – 13, 2019

The FusionReactor team are delighted to announce that we are sponsoring the  O’Reilly Velocity conference 2019 in San Jose. We are offering a 25% discount on all event tickets – you can receive your discount, using the following coupon – … Read More

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FusionReactor is sponsoring the 2019 O’Reilly Velocity conference in San Jose. June 10 – 13, 2019

The FusionReactor team are delighted to announce that we are sponsoring the  O’Reilly Velocity conference 2019 in San Jose. We are offering a 25% discount on all event tickets – you can receive your discount, using the following coupon – … Read More

[FRS-459] How to fix cloned FusionReactor instances

How to fix cloned FusionReactor instances … Read More

[FRS-459] How to fix cloned FusionReactor instances

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Finding (and Fixing) Your Slow ColdFusion Pages with FusionReactor

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Finding (and Fixing) Your Slow ColdFusion Pages with FusionReactor [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] In my last article I described how I wanted to help introduce FusionReactor to ColdFusion developers with a special focus on helping solve practical problems and navigating terminology that … Read More

[FRS-458] FusionReactor 8 Third Party License Agreements and Additional Notices

FusionReactor 8 Third Party License Agreements and Additional Notices … Read More

[FRS-458] FusionReactor 8 Third Party License Agreements and Additional Notices

FusionReactor 8 Third Party License Agreements and Additional Notices … Read More

Getting Started with FusionReactor (for ColdFusion Devs)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Getting Started with FusionReactor (for ColdFusion Devs) As a ColdFusion developer, you may know that it’s running as a J2EE server but also may have zero to no idea what that means in a practical sense. ColdFusion has always … Read More

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FR8 is released

FusionReactor announces the immediate release of FusionReactor 8 embracing automated root cause analysis FusionReactor 8 (FR8) has been designed to make a developers life easier and dramatically reduce the time required to figure out what’s gone wrong in a production … Read More

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FusionReactor awarded FeeFo Gold for the 3rd consecutive year

FusionReactor is proud and delighted to have been awarded the “Gold Trusted Service Award” for the third consecutive year. Feefo is a reviews and customer insights technology company that provides businesses with the tools to collect real, purchase-verified reviews and … Read More

[FRS-457] Potential performance issues using Event Snapshots

Potential performance issues using Event Snapshots … Read More

[FRS-457] Potential performance issues using Event Snapshots

Potential performance issues using Event Snapshots … Read More

Configuring Alerting in FusionReactor Cloud

In this post Matthew Clemente discusses FusionReactor for Docker Swarm (Part 2, Alerting). This article originally appeared on his blog Configuring Alerting in FusionReactor Cloud (Hybrid) Previously I blogged, in earlier posts, about installing and deploying FusionReactor Cloud to monitor CFML … Read More

FusionReactor for Docker Swarm

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In this post Matthew Clemente discusses FusionReactor for Docker Swarm. This article originally appeared on his blog FusionReactor for Docker Swarm (Part 1, Installation)   Moving a standard ColdFusion installation to Docker Swarm requires rethinking – and frequently rewiring … Read More

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Configuring Alerting in FusionReactor Cloud

In this post Matthew Clemente discusses FusionReactor for Docker Swarm (Part 2, Alerting). This article originally appeared on his blog Configuring Alerting in FusionReactor Cloud (Hybrid) Previously I blogged, in earlier posts, about installing and deploying FusionReactor Cloud to monitor CFML … Read More

FusionReactor Showcase Production Debugging

Intergral showcases the first Java APM solution designed for use across the whole Software Development Lifecycle, at O’Reilly Velocity conference – London, 2018 FusionReactor goes beyond traditional Java monitoring capabilities by adding low-level profiling and debugging, giving developers and DevOps … Read More

FusionReactor Showcase Production Debugging

Intergral showcases the first Java APM solution designed for use across the whole Software Development Lifecycle, at O’Reilly Velocity conference – London, 2018 FusionReactor goes beyond traditional Java monitoring capabilities by adding low-level profiling and debugging, giving developers and DevOps … Read More

FusionReactor APM is sponsoring the 2018 O’Reilly Velocity conference in London 30 Oct – 2 Nov

This year, the FusionReactor team are once again proud sponsors of the O’Reilly Velocity conference, which is being held in London between 30th October and 2nd November 2018. We are offering a 25% discount on all event tickets – you … Read More

FusionReactor APM is sponsoring the 2018 O’Reilly Velocity conference in London 30 Oct – 2 Nov

This year, the FusionReactor team are once again proud sponsors of the O’Reilly Velocity conference, which is being held in London between 30th October and 2nd November 2018. We are offering a 25% discount on all event tickets – you … Read More

Using FusionReactor’s Metric and Log Archive Viewer for post crash troubleshooting

A customer recently wrote into the FusionReactor Support Team regarding their ColdFusion server, which was crashing on average once per week.  We have used FusionReactor and specifically the archive viewer, to take the customers archived log data and diagnose the root … Read More

FusionReactor 7.4.1 adds support for Async functionality in ColdFusion 2018

With the release of FusionReactor 7.4.1 we added support to track async requests in ColdFusion 2018, these async functions will be tracked as a child transaction of the web request. This addition will allow you to track whether any asynchronous call … Read More

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Using FusionReactor’s Metric and Log Archive Viewer for post crash troubleshooting

A customer recently wrote into the FusionReactor Support Team regarding their ColdFusion server, which was crashing on average once per week.  We have used FusionReactor and specifically the archive viewer, to take the customers archived log data and diagnose the root … Read More

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FusionReactor 7.4.1 adds support for Async functionality in ColdFusion 2018

With the release of FusionReactor 7.4.1 we added support to track async requests in ColdFusion 2018, these async functions will be tracked as a child transaction of the web request. This addition will allow you to track whether any asynchronous call … Read More

FusionReactor 7.4.0 adds support for ColdFusion / Lucee tags (CFLDAP, CFFTP, CFMAIL, CFIMAP, CFPOP)

With the release of FusionReactor 7.4.0 we’ve added some new support for a number of ColdFusion tags (we already had support for CFHTTP and CFQUERY). This now means in both ColdFusion and Lucee the following tags will now be tracked … Read More

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FusionReactor 7.4.0 adds support for ColdFusion / Lucee tags (CFLDAP, CFFTP, CFMAIL, CFIMAP, CFPOP)

With the release of FusionReactor 7.4.0 we’ve added some new support for a number of ColdFusion tags (we already had support for CFHTTP and CFQUERY). This now means in both ColdFusion and Lucee the following tags will now be tracked … Read More

What’s new in FusionReactor 7.3 – over a dozen useful new features and enhancements

FusionsReactor 7.3, the latest release in the ColdFusion and Java monitoring tool has tons of new features and improvements. This article will be an overview of some of the most valuable aspects which affect the bottom line and ultimately guide … Read More

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What’s new in FusionReactor 7.3 – over a dozen useful new features and enhancements

FusionsReactor 7.3, the latest release in the ColdFusion and Java monitoring tool has tons of new features and improvements. This article will be an overview of some of the most valuable aspects which affect the bottom line and ultimately guide … Read More

Win a FREE Ticket for Velocity Conference San Jose, California 2018

  This year we are back at Velocity Conference San Jose – You can visit us at booth #812 we will be showing off the latest FusionReactor developments and features to help developers fix problems faster! To celebrate this we … Read More

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Win a FREE Ticket for Velocity Conference San Jose, California 2018

  This year we are back at Velocity Conference San Jose – You can visit us at booth #812 we will be showing off the latest FusionReactor developments and features to help developers fix problems faster! To celebrate this we … Read More

Can’t reproduce the production problem?  Just debug it in production!

Why debugging in production is so tempting? In one of my first jobs, one of the tasks I had was to fix a bug which used to occur from time to time in a very complex production system. That is … Read More

Can’t reproduce the production problem?  Just debug it in production!

Why debugging in production is so tempting? In one of my first jobs, one of the tasks I had was to fix a bug which used to occur from time to time in a very complex production system. That is … Read More

FusionReactor 7.x Release Notes

FusionReactor 7.x Release Notes … Read More

FusionReactor 7.x Release Notes

FusionReactor 7.x Release Notes … Read More

EULA V5 – FusionReactor 7 & 8

INTERGRAL SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) THE FOLLOWING EULA APPLIES TO FUSIONREACTOR VERSIONS 7 AND 8, AND THEIR MINOR/MICRO UPDATES ONLY IMPORTANT: CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT. THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN … Read More

EULA V5 – FusionReactor 7 & 8

INTERGRAL SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) THE FOLLOWING EULA APPLIES TO FUSIONREACTOR VERSIONS 7 AND 8, AND THEIR MINOR/MICRO UPDATES ONLY IMPORTANT: CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT. THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN … Read More

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Understanding Java Buffer Pool Memory Space

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Understanding Java Buffer Pool Memory Space What is the buffer pool memory space? Java applications use memory to store data temporarily as it is being processed. One of the memory spaces used by Java applications is the buffer pool … Read More

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The Importance of Java Application Profiling – Comparing Different Techniques

If you ever had some serious issues with the performance of your Java application, most probably you know how valuable thread profiling can be. But do you know which profiler you should use? There are two basic techniques used by … Read More

FusionReactor Wins FeeFo Gold Trusted Merchant 2018 Award

We are thrilled to announce that for the second year in a row FusionReactor has been accredited with the “FeeFo Gold Trusted Merchant” 2018 award! Feefo is an independent feedback service that are dedicated to collecting trusted reviews. The Gold … Read More

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FusionReactor Wins FeeFo Gold Trusted Merchant 2018 Award

We are thrilled to announce that for the second year in a row FusionReactor has been accredited with the “FeeFo Gold Trusted Merchant” 2018 award! Feefo is an independent feedback service that are dedicated to collecting trusted reviews. The Gold … Read More

Screencast Intro to FusionReactor Cloud & Docker Swarm Demo – Brad Wood

In this video Brad Wood of Ortus Solutions introduces you to FusionReactor Cloud and Docker Swarm “We’ve made a new screencast that shows an introduction to FusionReactor Cloud, a new way to monitor any number of servers in a consolidated … Read More

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FusionReactor Blog featured in the top 30 ColdFusion Blogs

The FusionReactor Blog was selected as one of the Top 30 ColdFusion Blogs by FeedSpot. The whole FusionReactor team are proud to be part of this list.   Have a look at some of the other top ColdFusion blogs featured … Read More

VisualVM Buffer pool

VisualVM Buffer pool – what is the buffer pool? The buffer pool space is located outside of the garbage collector-managed memory. It’s a way to allocate native off-heap memory.  What’s the benefit of using buffer pools? To answer this question, let’s … Read More

Monitoring Buffer Pools

Monitoring Buffer Pools – what is the buffer pool? The buffer pool space is located outside of the garbage collector-managed memory. It’s a way to allocate native off-heap memory.  What’s the benefit of using buffer pools? To answer this question, … Read More

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VisualVM Buffer pool

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] VisualVM Buffer pool – what is the buffer pool? The buffer pool space is located outside of the garbage collector-managed memory. It’s a way to allocate native off-heap memory.  What’s the benefit of using buffer pools? To answer this question, … Read More

Monitoring Buffer Pools

Monitoring Buffer Pools – what is the buffer pool? The buffer pool space is located outside of the garbage collector-managed memory. It’s a way to allocate native off-heap memory.  What’s the benefit of using buffer pools? To answer this question, … Read More

Win a Ticket for Adobe ColdFusion Summit – Las Vegas, 2017 with FusionReactor

The FusionTeam will once again be PLATINUM sponsors of this great event – make sure you join us and the Adobe ColdFusion Team in Las Vegas! We will be showing off the new major release of FusionReactor, which is FR … Read More

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Win a Ticket for Adobe ColdFusion Summit – Las Vegas, 2017 with FusionReactor

The FusionTeam will once again be PLATINUM sponsors of this great event – make sure you join us and the Adobe ColdFusion Team in Las Vegas! We will be showing off the new major release of FusionReactor, which is FR … Read More

Memory Mapped Buffer

Understanding the Memory Mapped Buffer To understand the memory mapped buffer we first need to understand the Java buffer pool. The Java buffer pool space is located outside of the garbage collector-managed memory. It’s a way to allocate native off-heap memory.  … Read More

Java Non-Direct Buffer

Understanding  Java Non-Direct Buffer The Java buffer pool space is located outside of the garbage collector-managed memory. It’s a way to allocate native off-heap memory.  What’s the benefit of using a Java buffer pool? To answer this question, let’s firstly … Read More

garbage collector-managed memory

Understanding garbage collector-managed memory The Java buffer pool space is located outside of the garbage collector-managed memory. It’s a way to allocate native off-heap memory.  What’s the benefit of using a Java buffer pool? To answer this question, let’s firstly … Read More

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Memory Mapped Buffer

Understanding the Memory Mapped Buffer To understand the memory mapped buffer we first need to understand the Java buffer pool. The Java buffer pool space is located outside of the garbage collector-managed memory. It’s a way to allocate native off-heap memory.  … Read More

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Java Non-Direct Buffer

Understanding  Java Non-Direct Buffer The Java buffer pool space is located outside of the garbage collector-managed memory. It’s a way to allocate native off-heap memory.  What’s the benefit of using a Java buffer pool? To answer this question, let’s firstly … Read More

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garbage collector-managed memory

Understanding garbage collector-managed memory The Java buffer pool space is located outside of the garbage collector-managed memory. It’s a way to allocate native off-heap memory.  What’s the benefit of using a Java buffer pool? To answer this question, let’s firstly … Read More

[FRS-429] FusionReactor 7 Third Party License Agreements and Additional Notices

FusionReactor 7 Third Party License Agreements and Additional Notices … Read More

[FRS-429] FusionReactor 7 Third Party License Agreements and Additional Notices

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Announcing FusionReactor 7 – tons more metrics and features = tons more insight & faster issue identification

FR7 represents a massive step forward for FusionReactor, includes 20 completely new core features and around 100 major improvements and bug fixes. Our primary goals for this release have been to enhance the array of system, application and JVM metrics … Read More

Announcing FusionReactor 7 – tons more metrics and features = tons more insight & faster issue identification

FR7 represents a massive step forward for FusionReactor, includes 20 completely new core features and around 100 major improvements and bug fixes. Our primary goals for this release have been to enhance the array of system, application and JVM metrics … Read More

Monitoring Kafka Consumer Applications

New in FusionReactor 7.0.0, we added the ability to monitor your applications usage of Apache Kafka. Firstly, what is Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka is a publish-subscribe service that allows for multiple system to publish to a given topic and for … Read More

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Monitoring Kafka Consumer Applications

New in FusionReactor 7.0.0, we added the ability to monitor your applications usage of Apache Kafka. Firstly, what is Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka is a publish-subscribe service that allows for multiple system to publish to a given topic and for … Read More

FusionReactor features in the DZone Guide to Java: Development and Evolution

DZone have just published the 2017 Guide to Java: Development and Evolution and FusionReactor is featured in it. The 2017 Guide to Java explores upcoming features of Java 9, how to make your apps backwards-compatible, a look into whether Microservices … Read More

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FusionReactor features in the DZone Guide to Java: Development and Evolution

DZone have just published the 2017 Guide to Java: Development and Evolution and FusionReactor is featured in it. The 2017 Guide to Java explores upcoming features of Java 9, how to make your apps backwards-compatible, a look into whether Microservices … Read More

We are Sponsoring Velocity Conference, San Jose,CA 2017: Build & Maintain Complex Distributed Systems

We are Sponsoring Velocity Conference, San Jose,CA 2017: Build & Maintain Complex Distributed Systems. Come and meet us at our booth #718. We will be showing off the latest FusionReactor developments and features to help Java developers fix problems faster! … Read More

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We are Sponsoring Velocity Conference, San Jose,CA 2017: Build & Maintain Complex Distributed Systems

We are Sponsoring Velocity Conference, San Jose,CA 2017: Build & Maintain Complex Distributed Systems. Come and meet us at our booth #718. We will be showing off the latest FusionReactor developments and features to help Java developers fix problems faster! … Read More

PODCAST: Why FusionReactor is Different than Other APM Tools and What’s New in Version 7 & the CLOUD, with David Tattersall

David Tattersall the CEO of Intergral (makers of FusionReactor) talks on the ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michael Smith. On Why It is Different to other APM tools and what is new in version 7 & the CLOUD See the … Read More

PODCAST: Why FusionReactor is Different than Other APM Tools and What’s New in Version 7 & the CLOUD, with David Tattersall

David Tattersall the CEO of Intergral (makers of FusionReactor) talks on the ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michael Smith. On Why It is Different to other APM tools and what is new in version 7 & the CLOUD See the … Read More

Win a FREE Ticket for Velocity Conference San Jose, California 2017

This year we are back at Velocity Conference San Jose – You can visit us at booth #718 we will be showing off the latest FusionReactor developments and features to help developers fix problems faster! To celebrate this we are … Read More

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Win a FREE Ticket for Velocity Conference San Jose, California 2017

This year we are back at Velocity Conference San Jose – You can visit us at booth #718 we will be showing off the latest FusionReactor developments and features to help developers fix problems faster! To celebrate this we are … Read More

[FRS-426] FusionReactor incompatibility with Lucee 5.1.4.19 and 5.2.1.9

FusionReactor incompatibility with Lucee 5.1.4.19 and 5.2.1.9 … Read More

[FRS-426] FusionReactor incompatibility with Lucee 5.1.4.19 and 5.2.1.9

FusionReactor incompatibility with Lucee 5.1.4.19 and 5.2.1.9 … Read More

Why Every Developer Needs FusionReactors Production Debugger

The situation is a common one when you’re a Java developer: you know there’s an application issue; you know it’s degrading performance and negatively impacting your customers; but you’re having trouble finding the root cause and you’re using valuable time … Read More

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Why Every Developer Needs FusionReactors Production Debugger

The situation is a common one when you’re a Java developer: you know there’s an application issue; you know it’s degrading performance and negatively impacting your customers; but you’re having trouble finding the root cause and you’re using valuable time … Read More

EULA V4 – FusionReactor 7

INTERGRAL SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) THE FOLLOWING EULA APPLIES TO FUSIONREACTOR VERSION 7 AND ITS MINOR/MICRO UPDATES ONLY IMPORTANT: CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT. THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU (EITHER … Read More

EULA V4 – FusionReactor 7

INTERGRAL SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) THE FOLLOWING EULA APPLIES TO FUSIONREACTOR VERSION 7 AND ITS MINOR/MICRO UPDATES ONLY IMPORTANT: CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT. THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU (EITHER … Read More

FusionReactor Wins FeeFo Gold Trusted Merchant 2017 Award

We are thrilled to announce that FusionReactor has been accredited with the “FeeFo Gold Trusted Merchant” 2017 award! Feefo is an independent feedback service that are dedicated to collecting trusted reviews. The Gold Trusted Merchant award is only given to … Read More

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FusionReactor Wins FeeFo Gold Trusted Merchant 2017 Award

We are thrilled to announce that FusionReactor has been accredited with the “FeeFo Gold Trusted Merchant” 2017 award! Feefo is an independent feedback service that are dedicated to collecting trusted reviews. The Gold Trusted Merchant award is only given to … Read More

FusionReactor Developer Edition – Ultimate features and insight

Our “typical” FusionReactor customer is generally a techie, usually a software programmer who is either developing on, or is responsible for an application.  About 25% of the time, our customers come from IT management, operations or DevOps positions.    What we … Read More

Using Production Debugger to set a conditional break point in a ColdFusion loop

This example will show how to set a conditional break point in a ColdFusion loop using the FusionReactor Production Debugger. Code Example – pdloop.cfm pdloop.cfm 1 2 3 4 <cfset aArray = [“January”,”February”,”March”,”April”,”May”,”June”,”July”,”August”,”September”,”October”,”November”,”December”]> <cfloop from=”1″ to=”#arrayLen(aArray)#” index=”i”>   <cfoutput>#i#: #aArray[i]#<br></cfoutput> </cfloop> … Read More

FusionReactor Blog gets selected at #25 of the top 40 Java Blogs

The FusionReactor Blog was selected as one of the Top 40 Java Blogs by FeedSpot. The whole FusionReactor team are proud to be part of this list. Have a look at some of the other top Java blogs featured in the … Read More

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FusionReactor Blog gets selected at #25 of the top 40 Java Blogs

The FusionReactor Blog was selected as one of the Top 40 Java Blogs by FeedSpot. The whole FusionReactor team are proud to be part of this list. Have a look at some of the other top Java blogs featured in the … Read More

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Remote Debugging a Java application using FusionReactor

Remote debugging is not a new concept and you can find numerous articles explaining how to setup various IDE’s such as Eclipse, Netbeans or IntelliJ to perform remote debugging of a Java Application.    If you’ve searched and found this … Read More

Java byte buffer

Java byte buffer – what is the buffer pool? The buffer pool space is located outside of the garbage collector-managed memory. It’s a way to allocate native off-heap memory.  What’s the benefit of using buffer pools? To answer this question, let’s … Read More

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Java byte buffer

Java byte buffer – what is the buffer pool? The buffer pool space is located outside of the garbage collector-managed memory. It’s a way to allocate native off-heap memory.  What’s the benefit of using buffer pools? To answer this question, let’s … Read More

FusionReactor 6.x Release Notes

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FusionReactor 6.x Release Notes

FusionReactor 6.x Release Notes … Read More

Win a FREE Ticket for Velocity Conference Amsterdam , 2016

We are sponsoring Velocity Conference,  Amsterdam. You can visit us at booth #416, we will be showing off the latest version of FusionReactor and FusionReactor CLOUD. To celebrate this we are giving away a free ticket for Velocity Conference, Amsterdam. The Prize is for … Read More

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Win a FREE Ticket for Velocity Conference Amsterdam , 2016

We are sponsoring Velocity Conference,  Amsterdam. You can visit us at booth #416, we will be showing off the latest version of FusionReactor and FusionReactor CLOUD. To celebrate this we are giving away a free ticket for Velocity Conference, Amsterdam. The Prize is for … Read More

Java Buffer Pool Memory Space

Understanding the Java Buffer Pool Memory Space The Java buffer pool space is located outside of the garbage collector-managed memory. It’s a way to allocate native off-heap memory.  What’s the benefit of using a Java buffer pool? To answer this … Read More

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Java Buffer Pool Memory Space

Understanding the Java Buffer Pool Memory Space The Java buffer pool space is located outside of the garbage collector-managed memory. It’s a way to allocate native off-heap memory.  What’s the benefit of using a Java buffer pool? To answer this … Read More

Win a Ticket for Adobe ColdFusion Summit – Las Vegas, 2016

Win a Ticket for Adobe ColdFusion Summit – Las Vegas, 2016   The FusionTeam will once again be sponsors of this great event – make sure you join us and the Adobe ColdFusion Team! We will be showing off the … Read More

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Win a Ticket for Adobe ColdFusion Summit – Las Vegas, 2016

Win a Ticket for Adobe ColdFusion Summit – Las Vegas, 2016   The FusionTeam will once again be sponsors of this great event – make sure you join us and the Adobe ColdFusion Team! We will be showing off the … Read More

FusionReactor ColdFusion line performance

Introduction This technote is going to guide you through the use and configuration of the FusionReactor ColdFusion line performance plugin. The FusionReactor ColdFusion Plugin is able to profile the execution of ColdFusion CFML code at line level. The data gathered … Read More

FusionReactor ColdFusion line performance

Introduction This technote is going to guide you through the use and configuration of the FusionReactor ColdFusion line performance plugin. The FusionReactor ColdFusion Plugin is able to profile the execution of ColdFusion CFML code at line level. The data gathered … Read More

FusionReactor Lucee and Railo line performance

Introduction This technote is going to introduce the Lucee and Railo line performance plugins. The FusionReactor plugins allow you to profile the execution of ColdFusion CFML code at line level. This data can then be used to identify performance issues … Read More

FusionReactor Lucee and Railo line performance

Introduction This technote is going to introduce the Lucee and Railo line performance plugins. The FusionReactor plugins allow you to profile the execution of ColdFusion CFML code at line level. This data can then be used to identify performance issues … Read More

Win a Ticket for Velocity Conference New York, 2016

For the second time we are sponsoring Velocity Conference, New York. You can visit us at booth #19, we will be showing off the latest version of FusionReactor and FusionCLOUD. To celebrate this we are giving away a free ticket for Velocity Conference, New … Read More

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Win a Ticket for Velocity Conference New York, 2016

For the second time we are sponsoring Velocity Conference, New York. You can visit us at booth #19, we will be showing off the latest version of FusionReactor and FusionCLOUD. To celebrate this we are giving away a free ticket for Velocity Conference, New … Read More

Announcing FusionReactor 6.2

We’re happy to announce the latest release of FusionReactor – 6.2.   This release contains around a dozen cool new features and improvements.   You can see a list of all the new stuff on the Release Notes page or simply just … Read More

Announcing FusionReactor 6.2

We’re happy to announce the latest release of FusionReactor – 6.2.   This release contains around a dozen cool new features and improvements.   You can see a list of all the new stuff on the Release Notes page or simply just … Read More

FusionReactor features in the DZone Performance & Monitoring Guide

DZone have just published the 2016 Performance & Monitoring Guide and FusionReactor are featured in it. According to DZone’s research, it states that the #1 tool for finding production issues is APPLICATION LOGS (90% of respondents) – which we think … Read More

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FusionReactor features in the DZone Performance & Monitoring Guide

DZone have just published the 2016 Performance & Monitoring Guide and FusionReactor are featured in it. According to DZone’s research, it states that the #1 tool for finding production issues is APPLICATION LOGS (90% of respondents) – which we think … Read More

[frs-370] FusionReactor 6 Third Party License Agreements and Additional Notices

FusionReactor 6 Third Party License Agreements and Additional Notices … Read More

[frs-370] FusionReactor 6 Third Party License Agreements and Additional Notices

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Introducing FusionReactor’s Production Java Profiler

If you’re trying to root out application performance bottlenecks on your production JVM environment – then you are faced with some significant challenges. Knowing where and what to tune up within your applications can be a major headache. APM tools … Read More

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Introducing FusionReactor’s Production Java Profiler

If you’re trying to root out application performance bottlenecks on your production JVM environment – then you are faced with some significant challenges. Knowing where and what to tune up within your applications can be a major headache. APM tools … Read More

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Transaction Memory Values Explained

One of the metrics gathered by FusionReactor during the execution of a transaction (request) is the memory usage of the transaction. This is displayed on the Main tab in the transaction details page. Since FusionReactor 6 we have added the … Read More

FusionReactor 5.x Release Notes

FusionReactor 5.x Release Notes … Read More

FusionReactor 5.x Release Notes

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2015 Wrap-Up – hello FR6 and Happy Birthday FusionReactor !

What a year 2015 has been – I just wanted to share some of the highlights we’ve achieved : 1. We launched FusionReactor 6 – with loads of new features – some significant performance improvements as well as the new … Read More

Announcing FusionReactor 6 – the wait is over !

After approximately 10 years of engineering, 100 meetings, 1,000 pizzas and 10,000 cups of coffee we’re now ready with FusionReactor 6 – it’s taken a while – but it’s worth it and FR6 is by far the best, fastest and … Read More

[frs-312] FusionReactor 5 Third Party License Agreements and Additional Notices

FusionReactor 5 Third Party License Agreements and Additional Notices … Read More

[frs-312] FusionReactor 5 Third Party License Agreements and Additional Notices

FusionReactor 5 Third Party License Agreements and Additional Notices … Read More

FusionReactor 4.5.x Release Notes

FusionReactor 4.5.x Release Notes … Read More

FusionReactor 4.5.x Release Notes

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FusionReactor 6 sneak peek – Re-writing the definition of what Application Performance Monitoring is all about!

APM tools have emerged as a category to help businesses address issues when applications break or systems are slow. Unfortunately, even though many of those tools measure metrics and provide some insight into what’s going on, they don’t do anything … Read More

FusionReactor 6 sneak peek – Re-writing the definition of what Application Performance Monitoring is all about!

APM tools have emerged as a category to help businesses address issues when applications break or systems are slow. Unfortunately, even though many of those tools measure metrics and provide some insight into what’s going on, they don’t do anything … Read More

[frs-359] Daily report plugin fails to send daily email

Daily report plugin fails to send daily email … Read More

[frs-359] Daily report plugin fails to send daily email

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Northern Virginia ColdFusion Users Group FusionReactor Product Suite Presentation (Recorded November 2014)

Using FusionReactor, FusionAnalytics, and FusionDebug to Solve CF Server and Coding Challenges (Recorded November 2014) Using FusionReactor, FusionAnalytics, and FusionDebug to Solve CF Server and Coding Challenges Presented to the Northern Virginia ColdFusion Users Group, Presented by Charlie Arehart (Recorded November, … Read More

Northern Virginia ColdFusion Users Group FusionReactor Product Suite Presentation (Recorded November 2014)

Using FusionReactor, FusionAnalytics, and FusionDebug to Solve CF Server and Coding Challenges (Recorded November 2014) Using FusionReactor, FusionAnalytics, and FusionDebug to Solve CF Server and Coding Challenges Presented to the Northern Virginia ColdFusion Users Group, Presented by Charlie Arehart (Recorded November, … Read More

All about FusionReactor’s Daily Reports

Something you will hear over and over when looking at the APM space, is reports. Every APM solution has reports, and FusionReactor is no different. With the release of FusionReactor 5.0.0, we included the Daily Report, which is a summary … Read More

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All about FusionReactor’s Daily Reports

Something you will hear over and over when looking at the APM space, is reports. Every APM solution has reports, and FusionReactor is no different. With the release of FusionReactor 5.0.0, we included the Daily Report, which is a summary … Read More

Getting custom instrumentation and metrics using FusionReactor: Examples with ColdFusion

FusionReactor will simply work out-of-the-box to give you masses of metric data and insight into requests, transactions, queries and resources without adding any additional code to your application.   However, if you want to get even more insight into specific areas … Read More

Getting custom instrumentation and metrics using FusionReactor: Examples with ColdFusion

FusionReactor will simply work out-of-the-box to give you masses of metric data and insight into requests, transactions, queries and resources without adding any additional code to your application.   However, if you want to get even more insight into specific areas … Read More

Keeping it real – excluding the effect of long running requests in FusionReactor

Something that comes up when speaking to FusionReactor customers is the need to handle long running requests.  In FusionReactor as with many APM solutions there is a continuous running aggregate of the average run-time of the web requests. Unfortunately if … Read More

How to keep your application / server responding when you’re running out of memory – FusionReactor Survival Strategy

FusionReactor has many great features one of the most overlooked and possibly one of the most powerful is EnGuard Crash Protection (CP).   This feature is able to alert you as well as prevent your servers from falling over by limiting … Read More

EULA V3 – FusionReactor 6

INTERGRAL SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) THE FOLLOWING EULA APPLIES TO FUSIONREACTOR VERSION 6 AND ITS MINOR/MICRO UPDATES ONLY IMPORTANT: CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT. THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU (EITHER … Read More

EULA V3 – FusionReactor 6

INTERGRAL SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) THE FOLLOWING EULA APPLIES TO FUSIONREACTOR VERSION 6 AND ITS MINOR/MICRO UPDATES ONLY IMPORTANT: CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT. THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU (EITHER … Read More

[FR-2832] How to add a FusionReactor Plugin to your FusionReactor installation

Description This article provides a set of instructions for adding FusionReactor plugins to existing FusionReactor instances and to the FusionReactor installation so that instances created in the future contain the plugin. This article provides a use case scenario, that scenario … Read More

EULA V2 – FusionReactor 5

INTERGRAL SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) THE FOLLOWING EULA APPLIES TO FUSIONREACTOR VERSION 5 AND ITS MINOR/MICRO UPDATES ONLY IMPORTANT: CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT. THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU (EITHER … Read More

EULA V2 – FusionReactor 5

INTERGRAL SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) THE FOLLOWING EULA APPLIES TO FUSIONREACTOR VERSION 5 AND ITS MINOR/MICRO UPDATES ONLY IMPORTANT: CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT. THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (“EULA”) IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU (EITHER … Read More

FusionReactor v5 Java Server Monitor – A feature tour

A 20 minute feature tour of FusionReactor v5 visiting: Enterprise Dashboard Web Metrics Real-Time Running Request List Request History Request Details CPU Thread Time TCP/IP Stream Metrics HTTP Headers JDBC Transactions HTTPClient/WebService Transactions Longest Requests (since server started) Slowest Requests … Read More

[FR-2832] How to add a FusionReactor Plugin to your FusionReactor installation

Description This article provides a set of instructions for adding FusionReactor plugins to existing FusionReactor instances and to the FusionReactor installation so that instances created in the future contain the plugin. This article provides a use case scenario, that scenario … Read More

Announcing Ortus ProfileBox – a ColdBox profiling / monitoring extension for FusionReactor 5

Ortus ProfileBox is a ColdBox module that will provide you with profiling, metrics, CacheBox reports, custom object metrics, exception notifications, LogBox integration and much more for any ColdBox 3.5 application. ProfileBox is available for FusionReactor 5.x – for more details … Read More

Announcing Ortus ProfileBox – a ColdBox profiling / monitoring extension for FusionReactor 5

Ortus ProfileBox is a ColdBox module that will provide you with profiling, metrics, CacheBox reports, custom object metrics, exception notifications, LogBox integration and much more for any ColdBox 3.5 application. ProfileBox is available for FusionReactor 5.x – for more details … Read More

[frs-310] Changes to FusionReactor Timeout Protection in 5.0.0

Changes to FusionReactor Timeout Protection in 5.0.0 … Read More

[frs-310] Changes to FusionReactor Timeout Protection in 5.0.0

Changes to FusionReactor Timeout Protection in 5.0.0 … Read More

[frs-239] Automatically login to FusionReactor with a Cookie

Automatically login to FusionReactor with a Cookie … Read More

[frs-271] Understanding FusionReactor’s Timeout Protection

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[frs-232] Capturing ColdFusion’s Debug Output in FusionReactor

Capturing ColdFusion’s Debug Output in FusionReactor … Read More

[frs-280] Setting VM Options via FRAPI

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[frs-239] Automatically login to FusionReactor with a Cookie

Automatically login to FusionReactor with a Cookie … Read More

[frs-271] Understanding FusionReactor’s Timeout Protection

Understanding FusionReactor’s Timeout Protection … Read More

[frs-232] Capturing ColdFusion’s Debug Output in FusionReactor

Capturing ColdFusion’s Debug Output in FusionReactor … Read More

[frs-280] Setting VM Options via FRAPI

Setting VM Options via FRAPI … Read More

[frs-237] Creating Daily FusionReactor Log Files

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[frs-237] Creating Daily FusionReactor Log Files

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[frs-25] Why doesn’t soft kill always work? (Understanding Soft Kill Limitations)

Why doesn’t soft kill always work? (Understanding Soft Kill Limitations) … Read More

[frs-25] Why doesn’t soft kill always work? (Understanding Soft Kill Limitations)

Why doesn’t soft kill always work? (Understanding Soft Kill Limitations) … Read More

[frs-91] I have enabled Timeout Protection to abort and notify after a period of time. However it does not seem to be killing requests that run for longer than the defined time. Am I missing something?

I have enabled Timeout Protection to abort and notify after a period of time. However it does not seem to be killing requests that run for longer than the defined time. Am I missing something? … Read More

[frs-91] I have enabled Timeout Protection to abort and notify after a period of time. However it does not seem to be killing requests that run for longer than the defined time. Am I missing something?

I have enabled Timeout Protection to abort and notify after a period of time. However it does not seem to be killing requests that run for longer than the defined time. Am I missing something? … Read More

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