What Coldfusion 8 standard edition performance monitoring free tools are available?

Question

The company I work for only has standard edition, and can not afford a pricey monitoring solution. And this is installed on windows 2003, IIS 6, Coldfusion 8.

But we need a way to remotely look at performance of the coldfusion server, since perfmon can not send data remotely.

And we don't want to put in tons of data into sql server, to store and then view remotely.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thank you for answers, but we only have standard edition, and need solutions for that version.

Answer 1

Charlie Arehart's CF411 lists several monitoring tools, some free, some not.

Here's the current list:

• CFStatShot, free, from Dave Spurr. CFStat Yahoo Desktop Widget.
• ColdFusion AJAX System Monitor, free, from Steve Brownlee
• ColdFusion JVM Memory Monitor, from Dan Switzer
• ColdFusion Tracker, free, from David Boyer. Access application, session and memory information
• FlexMon CF monitor, free, from Tariq Ahmed (also available at RiaForge)
• FusionAnalytics, commercial, from Intergral (makers of Fusionreactor)
• FusionReactor, commercial, from Intergral
• Scope Enhancer, free tool from Steve Brownlee. Places java system info into the CF Server scope to assist with monitoring JVM setup.
• SeeFusion, commercial, from Webapper
• ServerStats, free from Mark Lynch
• WhosOn CFC, open source, from Shane Zehnder. Simple tool to help track users visiting your site.

Here's a couple of Java EE tools (not CF-specific, but might still be useful):

• InfraRED
• x.Link

Answer 2

It might be worth mentioning: You can roll your own!

For example on Windows you can use the supplied Performance Monitor (perfmon) to record all the CF metrics that are displayed by cfstat. For example:

• Avg Db Time
• Avg Req Time
• Running Req
• Queued Reqs

Combine this with standard CPU and memory metrics and you'll well on the way to gathering some very useful information. Record say every 30 seconds. The data can be saved to the DB or saved to CSV which you can then read say once a hour/day/whenever and graph to see variations over time.

We use this in addition to our CF Server Monitor and it works a treat for both long term trends and to create and compare 'snapshots' of different servers.

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

FusionReactor is @300 bucks. You can run it in a separate process -- on a separate server, even -- and consequently it doesn't interfere with CF itself, unlike CF8's Server Monitor. I can't recommend FR and its competitor SeeFusion enough. Both are great products, both are very reasonably priced, and both can run out of process, which is what you are looking for I believe.