Archive for the ‘Monitoring’ category

Hello from CFUnited 2010

A big hello from CFUnited!
Myself (David Stockton) and my colleagues (Darren Pywell & David Tattersall) are all at CFUnited this week. We have a FREE copy of FusionAnalytics to give away so don’t be shy – come and speak to us for a chance to win!!
Plus, ask nicely and we’ve got FREE goodies for everyone [...]

Identifying slow upload connections with FusionReactor Crash Protection emails

We consult with a lot of different types of company. Sometimes there’s a lot of security process to deal with. This is great when you’re trying to stop un-authorized access but can sometimes hamper the speed of response an outside agency can give.
In one such incident we were trying to identify the IP address of [...]

HowTo – Get the most out of your FusionReactor purchase

Our colleagues at FusionReactor have published some great – quick-start HowTo guides. There’s information on attacking problems from two stand-points (pro-actively and re-actively) aswell as a user-contributed user-guide. You can check them out here:
http://www.fusion-reactor.com/fr/howto/
… or read the official documentation here:
http://www.fusion-reactor.com/fr/support.cfm#doc
You may also be interested in our training webinars (which get some great feedback!) – for [...]

Killing Rogue Requests – Going native, don’t stop me now!

FusionReactor is a great monitoring tool and one of my favorite features is the ability to kill rogue requests. FusionReactor is sometimes limited by Java itself. Java has a known limitation that threads running “Native Code” can’t be killed (until the thread returns from the native code block).
What is Native Code?
Underlying all your ColdFusion goodness [...]

FusionReactor Crash Protection – Regular Expressions “HowTo”

FusionReactor – the leading ColdFusion server monitoring software – has a nifty Crash Protection feature allowing it to abort requests that take too long. This works in a similar way to the ColdFusion server page timeouts but at a lower level allowing FusionReactor to stop requests under many more circumstances. FusionReactor also gives you the [...]