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"Adobe recommends professional 3rd party CF add-ons such as FusionReactor and FusionDebug, which enhance and extend the ColdFusion platform"
Ben Forta, Adobe ColdFusion Evangelist.
If you would like to compare monitoring capabilities between FusionReactor and the built-in monitor which is included with Adobe ColdFusion 8 and 9 Enterprise Edition - then read on...
TOP Benefits of FusionReactor compared to Adobe's Server Monitor (ONLY available in Adobe ColdFusion 8 Enterprise and 9 Enterprise) - Want even more reasons - click here for the full list.
- FusionReactor captures request and resource data to log files for future analysis
This is an essential feature for a server monitor - if you're trying to determine why something is breaking, then you need to capture the data and analyze it. It is usually not sufficient to just take a look at what's happening right now (the server might go down at 3:00am - but you'd still like to understand why). FusionReactor captures the data so you can review what happened in the past. Having the log history is also essential for auditing purposes and long term planning and analysis. Read about our upcoming FusionAnalytics product to understand more about log analysis. Adobe ColdFusion Server Monitor does not gather metric information to log files.
- FusionReactor is built for continuous usage in production environments and has an 'insignificant' effect on server performance
FusionReactor is a "low-overhead" pro-active server monitor, its Crash Protection and Survival Strategy features are designed to keep your server alive in critical situations, even under extreme load and the request capture feature is continuously capturing information - in short, FusionReactor should be run continuously in production. Adobe ColdFusion Server Monitor is not recommended to be run on production servers when using certain configurations e.g. when memory tracking is enabled, due to the negative impact on system performance.
- The Adobe ColdFusion Monitor is ONLY available with ColdFusion 8 or 9 Enterprise Edition
FusionReactor is available on ColdFusion 6, 7, 8 and 9 and will run on either the Standard or Enterprise versions. You can also use FusionReactor to monitor mixed environments of any combination of supported servers.
- If ColdFusion crashes, FusionReactor can continue monitoring your server
FusionReactor Enterprise Edition may be installed on a separate CF server or instance, or a Servlet Engine such as Tomcat or JBoss, to provide a "monitor the monitor" or "cross-over" monitor solution (see FREM). So if the monitored ColdFusion server or instance crashes, you can still see the requests right up to the crash point and you don't lose your monitoring capability. Adobe ColdFusion Server Monitor runs inside ColdFusion and will therefore stop monitoring if a CF crash occurs.
Click here if you would like to compare FusionReactor monitoring features to the ColdFusion 8 or 9 Enterprise Edition Monitoring.
