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
Blog Posts
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Debugging & Root Cause Analysis
ColdFusion Java
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
What are the 5 things you should ALWAYS check before you release your application?
What are the 5 things you should ALWAYS check before your app’s next release? Releasing a new app or website can be stressful. Whilst most dev teams have a QA process, the team often needs to go a little deeper … Read More
