Chapter2.Monitoring System Performance

Chapter 2. Monitoring System Performance

IN THIS CHAPTER

Monitoring Your ColdFusion MX 7 Server 17

Active Monitoring 23

Deciding What to Do Next 42

One of the hardest things to do when working with any programming language or application server is to understand why an application is behaving unexpectedly after it has been deployed. Perhaps you are experiencing inexplicable slowdowns in performance, rapid spikes in memory usage, sudden unresponsiveness, or other strange behavior that cannot be specifically tied to your application code. This can be an incredibly frustrating experience trying to understand what's going on with your application but in this chapter you will learn how to use a number tools to help you monitor and understand what is wrong with your system allowing you deal with any problems may arise.

In this chapter we will help you understand the tools and information you have at your disposal for troubleshooting your ColdFusion applications and removing performance bottlenecks.