126 Revealing FusionReactor 9 (ColdFusion Monitoring New Tools) with David Tattersall
Release Date: 11/22/2022
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info_outlineDavid Tattersall talks about “Revealing FusionReactor 9 (ColdFusion Monitoring New Tools)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.
“We’re going to be talking about the amazing new features in fusion reactor nine, for making your cold fusion apps run fast and not have crashes. Or if they do have slowdowns or crashes, you can diagnose quickly, what’s going on. And there are a lot of new features in version nine. So we’ll get into that in the episode, and we’ll go through some demos for those of you on video; you’ll be able to see the demo for those listening on audio; we’ll walk through the eight cool stuff that you’re seeing.”
Show notes
Our Mission + FusionReactor highlights
- How applications changed and the impact on monitoring
- Developers don't have it easy
What is FusionReactor - why is it different?
- Unified Observability Platform®
- Identifying performance & stability issues
- Coming very soon to FusionReactor
Common problems
- Performance Problems
- Resources limitations, due to Socket 10, or Cache (Resource Metrics, Profiler)
- External applications or systems such as a DB or API's (Distributed Tracing)
- Database issues, due to too many queries or poorly written (JDBC monitor)
- Memory Problems
- Allocating too much memory / Memory leak (Heap Analyzer / JDBC by Mem)
- Production Errors - the elusive corner case...
- Various issues - (Event Snapshots / Debugger - breakpoints & tracepoints)
What is FusionReactor?
- Why should all CFers be using it?
- What are the differences between FR 8 and 9?
- What are the new features?
- Pricing on FR 9
- What does ‘Unified Observability’ mean?
- How applications have changed and the impact on monitoring
- How FusionReactor has responded to those changes
- Identifying common problems using existing & new features
- New Logging Capability (FR9)
Coming very soon to FusionReactor Cloud
- Why go to Cloud?
- When was FR CLOUD launched?
- https://teratech.com/podcast/into-the-cloud-with-fusionreactor-coldfusion-application-performance-monitor-with-david-tattersall/
Realtime production debugging for Java
- Alerting improved?
What versions of ACF and Lucee does FR work with?
- all!
Roadmap
What's coming up (very) soon
- Infrastructure monitoring - Host machines, Nginx, DB's, K8s, Kafka, AWS etc.
- Lots and lots of dashboards - rendered automatically when we detect specific
technologies or data sources - Fully distributed tracing across different languages & technologies
Synthetic monitoring - giving you an "outside in" view of your application - Machine Learning & Al Ops (this is the future!)
WWIT to make CF even more alive next year/2023?
CF Camp 2023
Any other (new) conferences in sight?
Mentioned in this episode
- How to tackle common performance and stability issues using FusionReactor
- How FusionReactor is able to ingest any application, ColdFusion or FusionReactor logs
- CF Camp 2023 in Munich
- 057 Into the CLOUD with FusionReactor (ColdFusion Application Performance Monitor) with David Tattersall
- FusionReactor 9 Press Release
Bio
David Tattersall
David Tattersall has been in working in IT for over 35 years. Since co-founding Intergral in 1998, he has focused on company management, business development and sales & marketing. Intergral has become a leader in server monitoring and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions in the ColdFusion / Java segment. Intergral’s flagship product - FusionReactor - www.fusion-reactor.com is used on over 30,000 production servers and has been purchased by over 5,000 customers.
Links
- www.fusion-reactor.com
- Intergral
- David Tattersall | LinkedIn
- Email David (at) fusion-reactor.com