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September 29, 2006

Glassbox at Google Video and Elsewhere

This was a big week for Glassbox. We started off by presenting a tech talk on Java Troubleshooting with Glassbox at Google we had some great feedback at the talk and a lunch before and are looking forward to further feedback as teams there try the technology.

Later this, week I also had a good on site visit with a major business information provider where we installed and tested Glassbox on Weblogic and Tomcat for a variety of interesting applications. We also started work on integrating with a high availability system for a hospital, to provide performance and liveliness data. We are looking to provide more rich API's to allow writing custom extensions and deeper integration with Glassbox. We see a great opportunity to extend our monitoring with focused, application specific descriptions of components, service level agreements, and metrics. The idea is that you should be able to get useful data out of the box but can leverage the power of AOP to get more insight with a small investment. I'd love your input on this.

September 22, 2006

Live Glassbox demo

We just posted a new feature for Glassbox on our Web site this week: a live demo of Glassbox running against our "cranky" Pet Store, showing how it can diagnose problems in an application. This is a great way to try out Glassbox and to share it with colleagues. Behind the scenes we're running Tomcat with Glassbox and JPetstore  and MySQL and using a nice open source load testing tool, OpenSTA, to create sample load. The JPetstore application has a few extra problems added but we made no changes to integrate with Glassbox. I'd be interested in your feedback...

September 06, 2006

Glassbox 2.0 automated troubleshooter Goes Beta

I'm pleased to announce that we just shipped the Beta release of the open source Glassbox 2.0 automated troubleshooter. Glassbox 2.0 is a major step forward in simplifying troubleshooting enterprise Java, just deploy it to your app server and it discovers your existing applications and automatically diagnoses problems. Glassbox provides a concise analysis of what’s wrong, focusing on relevant information like excessive queries, or parameters that cause failures.

Glassbox now offers an AJAX Web Client, improved analysis and an automated installer that makes it easy to monitor Java applications in either a standalone or clustered environment.  Under the hood, Glassbox continues to improve its monitoring and analysis to more easily pinpoint problems, Glassbox monitors selectively to allow very low overhead data capture, and we have been working with the AspectJ project to significantly reduce memory and startup time overhead. Glassbox is all open source with our CVS repository now hosted at SourceForge.

Please try it and let us know what you think.

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We’d enjoy showing you in person, too. We’re presenting Glassbox this fall at: