New In FR

What's New¶

FusionReactor 12.1.1 released¶

Fixes potential bug that could prevent metrics from working.

FusionReactor 12.1.0 released¶

Java 21 support
Ability to log in to the on-prem agent using FusionReactor cloud credentials (can be disabled via config or -Dfr.fim.cloud.enabled=false)
Can now browse the FR agent's on-prem UI from the FusionReactor cloud website
Prevents extra Redis calls when used for Session storage with ColdFusion 2023
Less likely to have issues adding FusionReactor instances to the Enterprise Dashboard
Adds container ID as a label (container_id) to metrics
Adds the request's content length as an attribute (http.request_content_length) to spans
Other fixes and improvements

FusionReactor 12.0.1 released¶

Fixes potential bug in FR agent start up.

FusionReactor 12.0.0 released¶

Integration of the Observability Agent within FRAM.
Ability to automatically detect supported application servers within FRAM.
Improved support for Lucee 6 and Tomcat 10 within FRAM
New cloud group configuration option for ColdFusion, Tomcat and Lucee within FRAM.
Other fixes and improvements

FusionReactor 11.0.1 released¶

Includes bug fix for sessions tracking

FusionReactor 11.0.0 released¶

Java 7 support removed

FusionReactor now requires Java 8 or above. Support for Java 7 has been dropped as a result of security improvements.

Includes security updates to remove CVEs
New integration with Deep
Jakarta servlet support - now supporting WebRequest features and tracking for newer versions of Tomcat and Wildfly amongst others
dbpoolstats log now sent to the cloud as part of the metrics group
Changes to default settings used by Email Notifications - User-Agent always shown and maximum SQL statement length increased to 2000
Improved transaction tracking for Redisson 3.16.8 and later
Other fixes and improvements

FusionReactor 10.0.2 released¶

Warning

Cloud data now requires FusionReactor to be running on Java 8 or above. Live data will still work for Java 7.

Cloud support for M1 Macs.
New cloud transaction views/filters (error history, longest transactions, slow transactions, event snapshots, requests by memory)
Request content capture can be configured to only capture responses only as well as the ability to capture either headers or body only.
Fix to always use the correct file path for scraping Lucee app logs.
Prevent passwords being reset in the scenario where they haven't changed when settings are saved.
Fixed a bug concerning settings which could cause some configuration items to be cleared in certain cases.
HTTP connections to FusionReactor cloud have been deprecated.

FusionReactor 10.0.1 released¶

Further support for Coalesce images.
Fix for sending cloud data via proxy.
Cloud health status icon now includes status of telemetry shippers.
-Dfrhomepage now correctly overrides the homepage and disables the Set Home Page button.
-Dfr.chat.enabled=false now disables the chat icon in the bottom-left and the chat bubbles at top-right.

FusionReactor 10.0.0 released¶

Support for ColdFusion 2023.
Metrics are exported via Prometheus Remote Write, replacing datapack.
Within cloud, child/sub transactions are attached to transactions which are slow or have errors and weren't originally sampled (ITTs).
User role is passed through when visiting links to ephemeral servers via Enterprise Dashboard.
Improved server detection for CommandBox.
JMS/MDB transaction tracking.

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FusionReactor System Properties

Fix for host and port detection for OkHttp transactions when host has underscores (EXAMPLE_HOST).
Added telemetry shippers to Cloud status page.
Support for Coalesce Azure image.
Fix for ColdFusion fileExists function when used with S3 and auth/keys.
No longer export Profiles logs.
Various JVM arguments for:
Disabling server detection for CommandBox.
Setting homepage for all users.
Setting passwords for manager and observer roles.
Disabling email notification from reports plugin.

FusionReactor 9.2.2 released¶

JSONInterposer no longer writes to a byte array when disabled.
Spans now have a status code representing their status (0=UNSET, 1=OK, 2=ERROR).
CF metrics disabled by default (Disables cache query stats in realtimestats.log.

To enable CF Metrics:

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system properties
configuration

CF metrics: new stats for the amount of cached queries per application.
Fix for Windows log shipping.
Reduced size of JDBCRequest spans, db.user span attribute disabled by default.

FusionReactor 9.2.1 released¶

Fixed bug, within the Web Metrics pages, for displaying the total requests that occurred during the last 60 seconds.
Added new system property, which is enabled by default, to disable CF query monitoring for Redis cache users.
Fixed bug which prevented event snapshots from being sent to the cloud.

FusionReactor 9.2.0 released¶

Trace propagation to enable Distributed Tracing with FR.
Lucee CFThread tag tracking.
RabbitMQ tracking.
KafkaStreams tracking.
Increased CF metrics support for ColdFusion 2021.
Custom labelling for metrics, logs, and traces.

FusionReactor 9.1.0 released¶

Added ability to specify a fallback LDAP server.
Improved labelling, configuration and scraping of the log shipper.

Explore & Dashboards now in FusionReactor Cloud¶

The new FusionReactor Explore page is an improved way of analyzing your metrics.
New Dashboard views in the FusionReactor Cloud including:
- Database monitoring
- Request performance monitoring
- Instance health monitoring
- System resource monitoring
- Application monitoring
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Log monitoring dashboards

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Introduction to Log Monitoring

Log monitoring now in the FusionReactor Cloud¶

Added user API key creation in the Cloud Accounts page.
Added log ingest routes to support logging agents such as Promtail, Logback, Log4j and Fluentbit.
Introduced Logging dashboards including:
- Dashboards to search and filter logs from sources such as ColdFusion, Application Server or FusionReactor logs.
- Dashboards to track down the root cause of error logs.
- Dashboards to Query and browse all ingested logs.
- Dashboards to see how much data you are ingesting.
- Dashboards to identify memory and CPU bottlenecks via logs.
Introduced log alerting to notify you of changes in log behavior.

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Introduction to Cloud Dashboards

FusionReactor 9.0.0 released¶

FusionReactor 9.0.0 introduces a log shipper, allowing you to ingest log data into the FusionReactor Cloud.
Application logs will be shipped by default, with the option to scrape additional logs within your server.
Bug fixes for JDBc tracking in Lucee and obfuscation in Crash Protection emails.

FusionReactor 8.8.0 released¶

- Improved user password generation for greater security.
- ColdFusion metrics are now sent to the cloud.
- Added Row Count to JDBC transaction history lists.
- Added DB and API time to request.log in the archive viewer.
- Added DB and API time summaries to main transaction tab.
- Added ability to view graphs as averaged/smoothed.

FusionReactor 8.7.7 released¶

- Added DB and API time to WebRequest summaries in Crash Protection emails.
- Added Entries for DB and API time in the request log.
- Fixed NullPointerException that occurs when using GraphQL with Spring-Boot.

FusionReactor 8.7.6 released¶

- In web request details, service time has been renamed to API time.
- Included CFHTTP in the request API time.

FusionReactor 8.7.5 released¶

- Added the ability to preview Headers in the transaction history summary views via a settings page.
- Added limits for linked transactions to protect against increased memory usage.
- Added support for ColdFusion 2021 solr.

FusionReactor 8.7.4 released¶

- Improvements to licensing to fix common errors that users experience.
- Improvements to debugger UI.
- Improvements to transaction views.
- Fixes for rendering CF query param timestamps.

FusionReactor 8.7.3 released¶

- Upgraded mail library to support newer TLS versions and security cyphers.
- Improvements to Instance Manager UI.
- Improvements to Debugger UI.
- Improvements to Settings page UI.
- Enabled Crash Protection Emails by default.

FusionReactor 8.7.2 released¶

- Improvements to support chat usability and user experience.
- Various bug fixes.

FusionReactor 8.7.1 released¶

- Improvements to support chat.
- Improvements to Redisson async tracking.
- Various bug fixes.

FusionReactor 8.7.0 released¶

- Support Java 15.
- Support Java 16.
- Add tracking for ColdBox Elasticsearch (cbElastic 2.0.0+).
- Add support to track Vertx 4.
- Support running Datadog and FusionReactor in the same Java process.

FusionReactor 8.6.0 released¶

- Add support for Adobe ColdFusion 2021.
- Add tracking for the Jest - Elasticsearch Java Client.
- Add tracking for the official Elasticsearch - Java REST Client.
- Add support for Redisson 3.13.1 to 3.13.6.
- Send Spring Boot transactions to the cloud.
- Improve licensing network lookup code to make it more robust.
- Add Freshchat into FusionReactor (available from the top right navigation bar).

FusionReactor 8.5.0 released¶

- Add support for Event Snapshots in FusionReactor Cloud.
- Add support for profiles on slow requests in FusionReactor Cloud.
- Add tracking for CFTHREAD on Adobe ColdFusion servers.
- Improved tracking for HTTP headers (Adobe ColdFusion / Undertow).
- Add support for new versions of:
    - OkHttp
    - Micronaut
    - Kafka client
    - Jedis

FusionReactor 8.4.0 released¶

- New Memory Overview Dashboard - quickly see all memory areas on one page.
- Improved the [line performance tracking](Plugins/FusionReactor-Lucee-and-Railo-Line-Performance-Plugin.md) for CommandBox and TestBox.
- Improved the [Enterprise Dashboard](/Enterprise-Dashboard/Enterprise-Dashboard/) to show hostnames and IP addresses
- Added UI filtering to the [Enterprise Dashboard](Enterprise-Dashboard/Enterprise-Dashboard.md)
- Improved [decompiler](UI/Overview.md#decomplication) support for Java 10 to 15 classes
- Enabled [System Resources](Plugins/FusionReactor-System-Monitor-Plugin.md) on Windows when running as none System user
- Improved [JSON tracking](Plugins/FusionReactor-Json-Data-Tracker-Plugin.md) for HTTPClient GET requests.

FusionReactor 8.3.0 released¶

- WebRequest CPU Protection.
- Event Snapshot for ColdFusion.
- Added Arm64 support.

FusionReactor 8.2.0 released¶

- LDAP via Manage Logins.
- Micronaut.
- Spring Boot support.
- OkHttp support.

FusionReactor 8.1.0 released¶

- Enterprise Dashboard - Ephemeral Instances.
- Improved Debug User Interface.
- Improved tracking for HTTPClients, including parameters and Json Data capture.
- Improved decompiler on Java 8 or higher, it's now faster and can cope with new class file additions.

FusionReactor 8.0.0 released¶

- Event Snapshots are generated on re-occurring errors or log statements. These event snapshots contain the variables and call stack when these errors occur.
- JSON Capturing will capture any json request / response and attach it to the request details.
- Log capturing will make errors and warnings visible within the request details tab.
- Thread lock filtering is available on the stack trace **All threads** page.  This feature enables you to filter on thread locks, so that only threads which hold or are waiting on the specific locks are shown.