The coolest thing I've seen at CFUNITED

Unfortunately I don't have any screen shots, but the coolest thing I've seen so far at CFUNITED is the new product coming out from the Fusion Reactor guys. The product is called (and I should stress that as I don't have the product in front of me I will probably get some details wrong) Fusion Analytics. It offers a better way to work with your servers. It can parse any log as well as work with the Server Monitor API. It can then bring all of these various services together into one tool.

You have to see this to really get it - but being able to visually see spikes in your cpu and memory and then right below see the requests that were being fired is incredibly useful. You can right away narrow down on the templates that are causing issues on your server.

This isn't anything you can't do now really - with about 5-6 tabs in Firefox and a lot of switching back and forth. I know I'd much rather use a tool like this though.

I was also shown another tool with may or may not be a separate product. I can't remember the name, but it acts a bit like my old Starfish product. It gathers ColdFusion debugging information into a tool that lets you browse the data. In other words - instead of the debug information being plastered at the bottom, you can view it in a nice Flex interface and see historical data as well. I honestly can't remember the name of this thing, but it was "hot".

Comments (8) Jun 19, 2008 7:07 AM Views: 1647

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You are hot too Ray. God bless you
# Posted By sharon | 6/19/08 8:59 AM
Heh, only my wife thinks I'm hot. ;) I'm hoping the FR guys see this blog entry and send some screen shots along. If they do, I'll post em.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 6/19/08 9:00 AM
Thanks to the FR team! They sent me some screen shots. Unfortunately my slide show code doesn't work great with big images, but ignore that and check out the visuals:

http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/slideshow.cfm/fas
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 6/19/08 9:28 AM
Ray, I checked out this product yesterday as well, and the only thing I have to say is AWESOME!!!!! I so wish I had that application right now for a server we've been having trouble with for about a year and a half.
# Posted By Chad | 6/19/08 10:05 AM
FYI, I just found out they are doing a session on Friday. I'll be there and will blog a new entry with more info. (Well I should be there - just realized I may have a schedule conflict with a meeting I need to attend.)
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 6/19/08 11:50 AM
Glad you blogged about this -- I know I'll be getting it as soon as it's released. It's just a very smart product, one of those things that, once you see it, make you say, "Damn -- why hasn't anyone thought about doing something like this?" I'm glad the FR guys did.
# Posted By Sung | 6/20/08 11:51 AM
Hi Ray, We have now posted more information on FusionAnalytics on our Fusion website at http://www.fusion-reactor.com/fr/analytics.cfm. Be sure to click on the link “View Screenshots” for examples how you can use FusionAnalytics.
# Posted By Gianna Benson | 8/1/08 9:05 AM
Thanks for the update, Gianna. But the real question is - where is my review copy?? ;)
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 8/1/08 9:17 AM
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