Well, I've have to speak up here and voice my satisfaction with SeeFusion. I had already been using SeeFusion 3.3 and I helped Beta test SeeFusion 4 and I really-really liked it. I think WebApper has brought their UI up to speed with Flex 2.0. And with Free dot releases, I'm looking forward to their upcoming additions.
At my job, we are running single instance installs on our boxes, so I haven't had to deal with the single instance stuff, But SeeFusion's price is still quite a bit cheaper than Fusion-Reactor, and they do offer a bulk discount. The enterprise version of SeeFusion is absolutely worth it if you are serious about monitoring your CF boxes. It isn't that expensive and you will want the features is offers. As far as the past page load and queries, SeeFusion's main goal is to pinpoint performance problems, so I wouldn't necessarily want to know everything that ran on the page-- just the slowest stuff. They only show you the single slowest query in the interface, but that is where the database logging comes into play. You can capture queries until your heart is content with the DB logging based on a threshold time you set. Even with the awesome Flex stuff they have done, I really think the most appreciated new part of this release will be the Active monitoring rules. I can set it up to monitor the number of active requests, average page and query times, and individual page and query times. Then it will kill the request, log it to the database, or E-mail a notification. They even included some cool stuff like a renotify delay, and an initial delay before the rule is sent to avoid false alarms. I just think that kicks butt. The one database logging table I get the most use from though is the counters table. It basically logs at a specified interval (every five minutes for me) cfstat kind of info like number of active requests, memory used, average page times etc. I have set up an excel spreadsheet full of graphs which goes directly to the database and pulls out that data for whatever time span and server I specify and I have instant metrics in graph form of whatever server I want. Trending has never been easier before for me. At any rate, the least liked thing about SeeFusion is the data source wrapper setup. Since you specify your own JDBC url, CF ADMIN screws it up if you try to change a data source through the interface after adding it. Technically I blame Macrodobie for writing a data source manager which doesn't handle custom set ups too well in CF Admin. I'm pretty certain Fusion-Reactor suffers from the same troubles since their JDBC wrapper looks to operate the same as SeeFusion's. Well, that's just my opinion, and I will readily admit I have researched Fusion-Reactor, but never used it. I just really like SeeFusion, and the support has been great too. I have E-mailed the crap out of these guys with questions, and they have always gotten back to me right away. One vote for SeeFusion! My 2 cents :) ~Brad -----Original Message----- From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 9:36 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Announcing SeeFusion 4 (with Flex 2)! Good that you've finally decided to price it out more competitively, as before I was strongly leaning toward FusionReactor, which is licensed per server, not per instance. One thing that I like better about FusionReactor is that they allow you to view past requests, and go and see exactly what sql queries ran, and how long each took. With Seefusion you only get 1 query. I'm still trying to decide whether we should go with SeeFusion or FusionReactor. Does anyone have any feedback one way or another? Also do the benefits of using the enterprise version of either outweigh the costs? We'll have 2-3 servers, with 2 of the servers running 2-3 instances of CF each. Russ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:248804 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
