This December marks an extraordinary milestone: FusionReactor celebrates 20 years of revolutionizing application performance monitoring. What began in 2005 as a troubleshooting tool has evolved into a comprehensive observability platform trusted by organizations worldwide. But the real story isn’t just … Read More
Blog Posts
OpsPilot Levels Up: Deep Trace Querying Now Supercharges Root Cause Investigations
Modern distributed systems produce an overwhelming volume of signals – metrics, logs, alerts – and when something goes wrong, finding the why behind the what is everything. With OpsPilot’s new trace analysis capabilities, your AI assistant can now go beyond … Read More
OpsPilot Trace Investigation Case Study: Identifying 600-Second EventStream Timeout Issues
Summary FusionReactor OpsPilot AI assistant investigated application latency issues using Prometheus metrics and Tempo distributed tracing. OpsPilot identified flagd service EventStream operations timing out at exactly 600 seconds (10 minutes), causing cascading application latency across recommendation service, load-generator, checkout, and … Read More
Daily OpsPilot Questions for OpenTelemetry Monitoring: Your Essential Health Check Routine
Effective observability isn’t just about collecting data—it’s about knowing what questions to ask. With OpsPilot’s natural language interface and OpenTelemetry’s comprehensive telemetry data, you can establish a daily routine that keeps you ahead of issues before they impact users. Here … Read More
Coming soon: Exciting new FusionReactor Agent features!
We’re thrilled to share an exclusive preview of what’s coming in the next FusionReactor Agent release – arriving end of October to early November. This release is packed with powerful enhancements designed to improve user experience, boost observability, and provide … Read More
OpsPilot as Your ColdFusion Code Review Partner: Catching Performance Anti-Patterns Before Production
Introduction: Why AI-Powered Code Review Matters for ColdFusion Traditional code reviews catch syntax errors and style issues, but they often miss performance anti-patterns that only manifest under load. OpsPilot, FusionReactor’s AI-powered observability assistant, analyzes your running ColdFusion application to identify … Read More
Technical Debt Triage with OpsPilot: What to Fix First in Your ColdFusion Application
Every ColdFusion application carries technical debt – those quick fixes, outdated patterns, and “temporary” solutions that became permanent. But which technical debt actually matters? Which legacy code is actively hurting your performance versus which is just ugly but harmless? Follow … Read More
How OpsPilot Prevents Production Outages: Real-Time AI Analysis of Your Observability Data
Every ops team knows the 3 AM nightmare: your phone buzzes, alerts fire, and you’re scrambling to diagnose why production is down. But what if you could catch these issues at 2 PM the day before, fix them calmly, and … Read More
How OpsPilot Transforms Complex Monitoring Data Into Instant, Actionable Intelligence
Let me share a powerful demonstration of how OpsPilot, FusionReactor’s AI-powered observability assistant, is revolutionizing the way teams interact with their monitoring data. What you’re about to see isn’t a carefully crafted demo – it’s real questions from a real … Read More
🚀 The Future of FusionReactor: Here’s What’s Next
At FusionReactor, we’re always looking for new ways to make your life easier, give you deeper insights, and help you run your applications with total confidence. We’ve been working on some exciting new capabilities – and we can’t wait to … Read More
Goodbye TLS 1.0/1.1: How to keep your FusionReactor install secure in 2025 and beyond
⚠️ UPDATE: September 30, 2025 – This Change is Now Live The TLS 1.0/1.1 deprecation and certificate migration described in this post has been completed as scheduled. Current Status: ✅ TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 are now DISABLED on all … Read More
ColdFusion 2025 Security Updates: Critical Issues and Solutions
Latest Security Updates (September 2025) The most recent security updates were released on September 9, 2025: ColdFusion 2025: Update 4 ColdFusion 2023: Update 16 ColdFusion 2021: Update 22 These September updates address a critical path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2025-54261) that could … Read More
5 Critical Questions Every ColdFusion Developer Should Ask OpsPilot Daily
The days of manually digging through dashboards, correlating metrics across multiple tools, and piecing together performance clues are over. With OpsPilot’s AI-powered analysis capabilities, ColdFusion developers can now get intelligent, contextual answers to the most critical application health questions—instantly. Instead … Read More
OpsPilot’s AI Evolution: Transforming How Developers Troubleshoot ColdFusion Applications
The next generation of intelligent application monitoring has arrived, and it’s changing everything about how teams identify, understand, and resolve performance issues. See how OpsPilot is transforming how developers troubleshoot ColdFusion applications. For years, ColdFusion developers have faced a familiar … Read More
ColdFusion 2025 or Stay on Your Current Version? Here’s How to Choose
Making the Right Choice for Your Organization The decision between adopting ColdFusion 2025 or optimizing your current version isn’t about following industry trends—it’s about making the strategic choice that delivers maximum value for your specific applications and business objectives. Whether … Read More
FusionReactor Celebrates 5 Years of G2 Excellence: Our Journey of Continuous Recognition
For the fifth consecutive year, FusionReactor has earned prestigious recognition from G2, the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace. This milestone isn’t just about accumulating awards – it’s about the consistent trust our users place in us year after … Read More
5 Critical ColdFusion Performance Issues We Solve Through Consultancy
These performance killers are silently destroying your ColdFusion applications—here’s how our experts use FusionReactor to identify and eliminate them quickly Your ColdFusion application is running. Users can access it. Everything seems fine on the surface. But underneath, silent performance killers … Read More
Why 73% of ColdFusion performance projects fail to deliver expected results—and how our proven methodology ensures success
The FusionReactor Consultancy Methodology: A Framework for ColdFusion Performance Optimization When your ColdFusion application starts showing signs of performance degradation, the temptation is often to throw monitoring tools at the problem. Install an APM solution, set up some dashboards, and … Read More
Running Multiple ColdFusion Versions in Parallel: A Complete Guide
When it’s time to upgrade your ColdFusion installation, you might want to run the new version alongside your existing setup for testing, gradual migration, or maintaining legacy applications. This approach allows you to test your applications thoroughly before fully committing … Read More
What’s New in FusionReactor – August 2025
Over the past few months, we’ve introduced a series of enhancements to FusionReactor designed to advance observability, simplify troubleshooting, and bring AI-driven capabilities into your workflows. Together, these updates represent a significant step forward in how engineering teams can monitor, … Read More
How we taught Claude AI to read our ColdFusion metrics
Last month, our ColdFusion app started acting up again.Memory usage was spiking, error logs were piling up, and every time we thought we’d found the root cause, something else broke. We were doing what every developer has done at some … Read More
Introducing Katie – your Kubernetes expert agent
We’ve been working hard over the last few weeks to bring you Katie and Katie MCP, a pair of tools to help you manage and integrate your Kubernetes clusters into AI. Using the easily-installed cluster agent and MCP tooling, you … Read More
10 Cool Metrics You Can Alert On with FusionReactor Cloud
Monitoring an app is easy – until something breaks. That’s when alerting becomes the MVP of your observability setup. FusionReactor Cloud gives you deep insight into your applications, JVM, infrastructure, and ColdFusion workloads. But with hundreds of metrics to choose … Read More
Why ColdFusion Monitoring, Licensing, and Consultancy Should Never Be Separate Services
Organizations using integrated CF solutions typically resolve performance issues significantly faster while reducing vendor management overhead. Here’s why the smartest CF teams are consolidating their toolchain. The Challenge: CF Performance Issues Are Getting More Expensive Industry reality: Many ColdFusion performance issues … Read More
FusionReactor Event Snapshot: Debug Production Bugs Without Downtime
Some bugs only happen in production. They don’t show up in development. They hide during staging tests. And yet, they still find their way to your users – causing frustration, errors, and support tickets. These are the elusive, real-world bugs … Read More
Retrofitting your existing Java JVM for TLS 1.2 + Let’s Encrypt
On 30 September 2025 @ 23:59 UTC we will Disable TLS 1.0 / 1.1 on every public FusionReactor endpoint (licence, downloads, Cloud ingestion). Replace our Sectigo certificate chain with Let’s Encrypt ISRG Root X1/X2. If your server already supports TLS … Read More
OpsPilot’s new Web Search Toggle
Take control of your queries with OpsPilot’s new Web Search Toggle We’re excited to introduce a simple but powerful update to OpsPilot: the Web Search Toggle – designed to give you more control over how your questions are handled, especially … Read More
