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
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
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
Webinar – Introducing the Power of Log Alerting
Watch the video The webinar has now ended, watch the recordings Webinar – Introducing the Power of Log Alerting Join our Webinar on November 17, 2021 at 11 EST Time converter at worldtimebuddy.comTime converter at worldtimebuddy.com In this webinar, we … Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
