May 23, 2017
David Tattersall talks about “FusionReactor Application Performance Monitor - Why It’s Different Than Other APM Tools and What’s New in Version 7 & the CLOUD” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. His flagship product - FusionReactor is used on over 25,000 production servers and has been purchased by over 5,000 customers.
Show notes
- What
exactly is FusionReactor?
- Low overhead CF and Java application performance monitor
- It can measure 100’s of different metrics + alert you to potential issues
- How
long has FusionReactor been around and who’s using it?
- First launched in 2005
- 5,000+ customers, 80% US
- 25,000+ servers running FR in production
- What
differentiates FusionReactor from other Java APM tools?
- Crash protection and improved application/server resilience
- Built in low overhead, safe & secure, familiar “developer tools” - debugger, line profiler and memory analyzer - help you get to the root of the problem as fast as possible in your production environment
- What’s the overhead on the server when running
FusionReactor?
- Less than 1% overhead compared to 2-5% on other monitors
- What
is exciting in the new version 7?
- Support for JMX (Java Managment Extensions)
- MBeans (Managed Beans)
- → Better metrics
- Direct integration between FusionReactor and AWS Cloud watch
- Debugger one click breakpoint, decompile your code on the fly
- Memory Analyzer - identify heap utilization - spot memory leaks
- Why
did you add FR to the CLOUD?
- Save server monitoring data to the cloud so it doesn’t clog up your server
- Combining metrics from multiple servers (instances), say across a cluster, to provide a combined application view
- Powerful alerting engine on any of the metrics in FusionReactor CLOUD, with integration to many common Alerting Channels - such as
- FusionAnalytics for on premise, in-depth analysis
- Two way link from FR CLOUD to the local FR so can run a stack trace or GC from the cloud
- Webinar on this at https://www.fusion-reactor.com/webinar/fusionreactor-cloud/
- Use FR to monitor FR CLOUD
- What
versions of ACF and Lucee does FR work
with?
- ACF 6.1, 7 MX (FusionReactor 4.5)
- ACF 8,9,10, 11, 2016 (latest version of FR)
- Railo 3.x, 4.x
- Lucee 4.5, 5.x
- Also supports Java containers e.g. Tomcat, JBoss, GLassfish, Websphere + many Java frameworks e.g. Spring and Struts
- What
is in your dev roadmap for the next year?
- FR 7 launch
- FusionReactor CLOUD launch
- Intelligent analysis of data - to determine why something is broken
- Log analysis
- Introduction of a new agent for Node.js monitoring
- Why do you support CF conferences around the world?
- Why are you proud to support CF?
- WWIT for CF to be more alive this year?
Mentioned in this episode
- CF and JVM server Log files
- JProfiler
- Remote production debugging CF code
- JVisualVM
- MAT
- GC Roots analysis
- Memory leak detection
- Debugging
- Line Profiler
- Memory profiler
- Session management
- JVM metrics and Garbage Collector
- JMX MBeans
- UEM (User Experience Monitoring)
- FusionReactor Standard, Enterprise, Ultimate
- FusionAnalytics
- Velocity DevOps conference
Bio
David Tattersall
David Tattersall has been in working in IT for over 30 years. Since co-founding Intergral in 1998, he 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. His flagship product - FusionReactor - www.fusion-reactor.com is used on over 25,000 production servers and has been purchased by over 5,000 customers.