[cfaussie] ColdFusion Monitor

2012-03-27 Thread Andrew
Hi, I have the built in ColdFusion Monitor enabled on one of my instances, and it regularly sends me a slow server alert. I set it to send a snapshot when it sends the alert, and the snapshot seems to indicate the server isn't processing any requests: Average server response time is more than

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion Monitor

2012-03-27 Thread Barry Chesterman
I had big issues a while ago using the built in coldfusion monitor, the monitor itself seems to cause performance problems. I would recommend turning it off and using third party monitoring tools. I can recommend Fusionreactor but there are other ways to capture performance metrics besides the

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion Monitor

2012-03-27 Thread Kai Koenig
Agreeing here - the internal monitor is a performance drain - known issue :) I'd support using FR, version 4 has also a few nice improvements re memory monitoring over version 3. If you don't want to use an external product you can use JRun Metrics or just plainly cfstat to monitor and log

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion Monitor

2012-03-27 Thread Andrew Myers
Thanks for the suggestions guys. On 28 March 2012 10:11, Kai Koenig k...@koeni.de wrote: Agreeing here - the internal monitor is a performance drain - known issue :) I'd support using FR, version 4 has also a few nice improvements re memory monitoring over version 3. If you don't want to

RE: [cfaussie] ColdFusion Monitor

2012-03-27 Thread charlie arehart
Andrew, I'd point out that the alert you have is from when the average response over a period of time hit 20 seconds, which could have been from a request(s) finished by the time the alert was generated. To be clear, there is a separate alert that can fire when more than x requests are running for