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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

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 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

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

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

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 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 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? 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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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