Technical Blogs

Short application health checklist to ensure you’re getting the most out of FusionReactor Configure your notification email address The notification email address is where FusionReactor will send the daily, weekly and monthly reports to and is also the email used to send crash protection notifications. If you have not done this already, it’s very important […]

[FRS-448] Securing FusionReactor and jsp applications in tomcat using LDAP

Originally posted March 5th, 2020 by Tom King – reproduced by kind permission Debugging plugin performance in CFWheels – the issue Shortly after the release of CFWheels 2.0, we started to get reports of slower running requests under certain conditions. For instance, a page which might have had 1000 calls to `linkTo()` could take anything […]

Fig 1. Continuous Profiler alerting configeration Software development in production is everything because when code fails in production, it fails in reality. Having an excellent debugging tool that debugs and profiles code efficiently is critical, and it does help you quite a lot if you want to enhance your code performance and scalability. In a […]

Originally posted By Ben Nadel on February 13, 2020 reproduced by kind permission. One of the really fun features of ColdFusion is its highly dynamic nature. Whether you’re using onMissingMethod() or using getFunctionCalledName() or injecting methods, you can basically make your ColdFusion code do anything that you want it to. In celebration of this flexibility, I wanted to have some fun with my FusionReactor helper component, […]

Originally posted by Ben Nadel on February 1, 2020, reproduced by kind permission. One of the nice features of FusionReactor is that when you create a sub-Transaction with the FRAPI, you can graph that Transaction performance against the server’s CPU and Heap profile. This helps identify correlations, bottlenecks, and performance opportunities. This works out-of-the-box with the Standalone dashboard. However, at […]

To install FusionReactor in CommandBox, we recommend that the commandbox-fusionreactor module is used. This is a module designed and maintained by Ortus (makers of CommandBox).

Improved alerting, Event Snapshots, improved Cloud UI and more FusionReactor 8.3 has new CPU alerts in crash protection. We have redeveloped Event Snapshot for ColdFusion users which means that it no longer courses server issues. FusionReactor Cloud now lets you choose your theme and gives you better warning notifications. As well as a host of […]

By guest author Thorben Janssen The StackTrace is one of the key concepts in Java. It’s a call stack for the thread and lists all method calls since the start of the thread. You have probably seen its textual representation in your log file or console output. It gets printed to System.out whenever an exception […]

For many years the FusionReactor product documentation has been ran on a confluence server. We maintained our own server for many years and currently use the cloud version, but its never really been ticking all the boxes for our product documentation. For each major release of FusionReactor we have a separate confluence space on the […]