FusionReactor APM Reviews & Product Details

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.

After reviewing most of the available APM in the market (newrelic, datadog, signalfx etc.), I couldn't find any APM other than FusionReactor that provided real time request data and performance metrics. We generally go to APM when there is an issue and if I can't see what's happening "right now" and the request that causing the issue, it's not very helpful. FusionReactor provide is nice and simple realtime view of CPU/Memory/JDBC/Request. and then from there you can dig deeper in request and code profile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can't think of anything that I dislike. But few feature request will be to:

- Save X number of requests before server disconnect

- Add separate UI to show hosts that the containers are running on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use FusionReactor (FR) with ColdFusion (CF) 2016 Enterprise edition. FR sits outside the CF main processes so it can report on and handle issues even if the CF processes go haywire. Additionally, FR provides great insight into long-running processes, errors, database issues, etc. Both the alerting and automatic recovery systems have proven themselves invaluable time after time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't much to dislike. Once FusionReactor is set up and tuned, the system just works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amount of data gathered and available, ability to easily jump around (links to related data). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of support on email (successful emails, failed emails, number of emails sent, etc.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The sheer amount of data collected and categorized from our servers and applications is amazing. The ability to see the level of detail on threads, headers, stack traces, etc. is very powerful. Add to that, the ability to setup monitors that can queue requests when resources are strained or to live debug an issue on a production server, and you have a very useful tool set.

The cloud options add a higher view level for groups and multiple servers at once. Additional alerting and metrics options are available here as well. We have only started to explore these options, but they look to add value to the overall product.

The Longest and Slow Requests feature is very helpful to our team. We can drill into the details of the request and all of the transaction elements even down to the JDBC request elements.

We initially purchased FusionReactor to help us track down a stubborn heap space issue that was very difficult to recreate in the development environment. FR played a huge role in helping us find the offending code and process. We have since renewed two years in a row, and continue to consider it a valuable tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The local Administration Manager is a bit clunky. If you use the manual installation method for the FR files into your server instance, it is more difficult to manually add/register an instance in the manager application for the dashboard view. You also cannot use the manager to upgrade the existing instance if you had originally manually installed the FR product. The documentation about this is a little unclear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like being able to kill processes in the main lists. I can see what requests are hanging in my dinosaur system. Checking out system resources, and the log of longest requests is a great way to keep tabs on your coldfusion environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Upgrades are a little tricky, but their customer support team is knowledgeable and helpful to get everything up and running. GRANTED, My version of CF is archaic, I bet it would be way easier for newer installs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The high level of functionally available as well as the range of tools available. I also like the Cloud version which we have recently upgraded to on Ultimate version. I like the facility to view the SQL statements as well. Price is good value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With the level of functionality it it not always easy to find the source of the problems and terminology is not always that user freindly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's an all-in-one dashboard to monitor the performance of our web application. The breakdown is detailed and it is quick to process. Great user interface, easy to navigate. The convenience of having everything in one place is extremely helpful when working with a ginormous program, and the intuitive design allows for someone new to the company to adapt to it quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't had the chance to explore the application in great detail, so far no complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloud installation was a guided step-by-step, well documented convenience and the User Experience did not require me to think too hard about what I was looking for Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is not much to dislike about FusionReactor itself, but I would say it cannot be used as a stand-alone monitoring tool for observability into your production infrastructure. It is a compliment to an existing monitoring service (i.e. New Relic, etc.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't pick one thing, it's got so many features I rely on. I guess each feature (metrics, archives, slow/long request logs, protection settings etc) provides a great level of control and detail.

It's never just top level metrics/logging, you can drill down and find out exactly when/where/why something went wrong, down the minute and line of code if you know how to use it all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used to have some issues with the UI but the last few versions have had some really good updates and got rid of anything I disliked, so make sure you keep updated!

I'm really sorry, I can't find a flaw... I'm sure there would be some if I went looking but off the top of my head... I dislike nothing aboutit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easier to monitor servers and application performance with FusionReactor. We can also monitor slow JDBC queries here. It's quite helpful for me as a developer to evaluate our codes and queries performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At first, I was a bit unfamiliar with the interface, so I had a little trouble using it at first.

Also, in some cases when the SQL queries are too long, FR often displayed it incompletely. But other than that, it works as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to setup and get going with a great depth of features when you need them, cloud version is trivial to setup and immediately useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can be a bit fiddly to configure dashboards and settings for protection and survival strategies. Being able to apply these across groups would be very handy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being able to see all of the request details, e.g. activity, history, long running requests.

The profiler is a killer feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not really much to dislike, maybe the profiler UX could be improved (a lot of scrolling). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FusionReactor is THE tool to monitor and tune your ColdFusion or Lucee environment. I've been using it for around 5 years now, and won't commission a server without it. Things that could take days to solve are fixed in minutes. They do a great job with their training videos and webinars too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing to dislike. It's a great product at a reasonable price Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't an environmental question I can't answer with FusionReactor. It's our go-to for app insights, metrics, and debugging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's a LOT to digest, which is a great problem to have....but there's a ton there to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FusionReactor provides insights into your ColdFusion application server like no other utility/tool available. The amount of useful information is staggering and provides both high-level and granular details about your server running ColdFusion and how it is performing. Adobe ColdFusion (and really, any JVM-based software) requires a high level of understanding to manage effectively, and FusionReactor gives you a huge jump on building that understanding, especially if you are new to Java-based systems and software. The software's GUI and various dashboards and reports really take a lot of the guesswork out of ensuring your ColdFusion Application is running optimally, and gives you the insights required for an Enterprise-level application server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If I had to fault FusionReactor for anything, it integrates with ColdFusion a bit too well - when establishing a new ColdFusion instance, you must ensure the FR instance is set up as well before your CF instance will start. Makes sense, but wasn't apparent until we reached out to FR support (which is excellent and highly responsive) and explained what was going on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The details and the realtime monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The history of the activity is too little. Can't see what we are missing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to collect data on ephemeral instances and pay only when they are running, per hour. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Depending on how our infrastructure scales, costs could escalate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FusionReactor APM allows me to research bottlenecks with a simple click! Whether it's checking out which requests are taking too long to process, looking at the JDBC transactions to review which queries may need retooling, or looking over how the JVM memory heap is performing, everything is accessible with an easy-to-use navigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm being honest and sincere here. I have yet to find anything to dislike about FusionReactor APM! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cloud service which I've recently started using is quite impressive, and tracks my commandbox docker containers automatically, including the automatic licencing stop/starts. The ability to see thread profiles, long running requests and length of things like cfhttp helps debug external APIs and identify where the potential bottlenecks are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does require a certain amount of technical knowledge to use. There's no point in looking at 26 graphs of JVM memory and garbage collection times if these things mean nothing to you. Configuration of certain features is by environment flag, so you have to know roughly what you're doing there too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fusion Reactor is an innovative performance monitoring solution for Java applications in development, testing and production environments.it provides everything that Java developers need in an APM tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

no dislikes at this moment, I have yet to find anything to dislike about FusionReactor APM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the most that you can see in real time the running transactions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The "Requests" "History" sections seems to load just the web requests of the last minutes if you have a lot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.