FusionReactor gives us total and complete visibility into the inner functioning of ColdFusion, allowing us to analyze problems of all types. This includes extremely complex problems related to the interaction of untold number of audio players out in the world and how they interact with and stream music from our servers, server environmental problems of any type (CPU, RAM, virtual RAM, disk space, and much more), as well as of course the specific functioning of our ColdFusion script, database calls, and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The price is steep but frankly, FusionReactor is an essential software application to give us the insight into how our servers are functioning that is absolutely necessary to keep both our development and production environments running optimally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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We use FR on a daily basis to either assist in troubleshooting or just general performance monitoring.
Installation and integration with Coldfusion servers is straightforward and easy to automate (we use ansible).
Customer support is stellar. Hands on, without too much bureaucracy and back and forth with the support team, with quick turnaround times.
We recently moved to the Cloud + AI platform and it has more features than we know to use. We're still in the process of learning the ropes, but it provides with a more holistic view of our infrastructure compared to our old on-prem deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing comes to mind immediately in terms of dislikes.
I would say that sometimes a setting is in a different place than what you would think.
There are various settings menus per function that may get confusing at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like how easy it is to navigate the application. I only saw the demo but the data insights the application gives into the development process is very helpful. It also has support for legacy languages as well. As someone who has used cfm I can see how helpful this application can be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Options to change the charts as we like to different types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I'm able to get specific details on what went wrong AND what's going right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I wish the cloud version didn't truncate queries. I still use the server-based version for that level of detail. The Cloud version provides a great broader view however and provides a lot of valuable metric detail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We are running ColdFusion application in a containerized cloud-environment. Containers are sometimes short-living. FR Cloud is the place, where we find diagnostic data and insights into failures.
What we like most, is the ability to dive deep into the request and even see the template and line number of a CFML file, where the issue occured.
Apart from that, FR helps us to "right-size" our infrastructure components and monitor the effects of our modifications.
The installation is quite easy and configuration with config files goes straight forward.
We are able to give access to our customer's IT, so that they can monitor independently on a daily basis, without the need of having dedicated access into our SaaS setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
nothing ;-)
one thing to improve: documentation of the config file. We were configuring via the Admin UI on a local instance and then took the config file for our Docker deployment. But with a full documentation, that step would become easier.
an idea for improvement: if we could integrate FR with AWS XRay, as we are using an event-driven architecture - this would give us a perfect insight into our system behaviour. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's the simplest setup for Commandbox .
Like others, it gives visibility into running requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It frequently disconnects from the agent when Live View is toggled on.
Support is a bit slow to respond, but since they're in a different time zone I can't really fault them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Any time I start working on a new product to improve performance, FusionReactor is my first stop. Being able to see how the server is performing and identifying where to focus my efforts is vital. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Other than identifying the problem and fixing the code for me, nothing! Everything FusionReactor does enhances my abilities as a developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We have been a ColdFusion development shop (small business web/saas) for better than a quarter century. In that time we have learned a great deal about what makes our apps work and how to troubleshoot them pretty quickly. Or so we thought. Over the past two years, we have gone through some significant infrastructure updates and upgrades, and along with these came some new CMFL challenges. After much digging around the internet and chatting with trusted resources someone asked what our FusionReactor APM was showing concerning the problem we were troubleshooting. Well, we didn't have an FR setup, so we opted to do the trial, and sure enough, this helped to highlight not just the issue we were actively trying to fix, but several others that were just under the surface. Identifying those, probably saved us several more hours of hunting for a fix.
Long story short, for any CFML server we set up we are sure to enroll it before it goes live. This has helped us to continue to provide the level of service that our clients have come to expect and even more so demand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I just wish that the newer versions could be installed on older Java versions. I know it sounds silly, but we are currently stuck with some older CF services, and while the on-prem is super helpful, the consolidated view of the cloud service would be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The strongest elements of FR are its telemetry insights and live debugging features, which can be used with a small footprint in a production environment. It's extremely simple to install and integrate into any IDE. It's essential in everyday operations of our enterprise environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
None that I can think of. The support is extremely receptive to feeback and tend to implement fixes and make imrovements regularly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Without doubt, the on-premises memory analysis features, are first class. Memory leaks are extremely hard to track down without a tool like FusionReactor.
Plus the memory footprint of FusionReactor is very low. It uses less than 100MB RAM on a Windows 2019 server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I think the Cloud version of FusionReactor lacks the memory features of the on-premises version. This is disappointing. I also think the GUI of the on-premises version is clearer and less overcrowded. The default night mode of the Cloud version, makes it hard to see things clearly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
