So you may have heard about the OpenTelemetry or OTel Metrics API. This article will explain the concept of metric, metric instruments and their functions, metric providers, and give you a practical example of implementing metric instruments. When we talk … Read More
Why ColdFusion Monitoring, Licensing, and Consultancy Should Never Be Separate Services
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
FusionReactor 8.x Release Notes … Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
