There you are getting in to work on a Monday Morning and and you have a mail from the COO and the Head of IT asking what the F**K Happened over the weekend when the site went down for over an hour. Where do you start? What's the first thing you look for?

Well if you have ever been in this position, then your saviour is on the way in the disguise of Fusion Analytics from the team that have given us Fusion Debug (My Eclipse Install Feels Naked without this) and Fusion Reactor. Fusion Analytics is still in pre Alpha so no-one has really had a chance to play with it but from the demos given by the guys at Integral everyone has said it will save them so many hours in finding why our applications die on us, at the most annoying times.

But you can tell the guys are listening to every bit of feedback they have been getting: "After feedback from CFUnited & Scotch-on-the-Rocks we’ve added the timeline zoom control which lets you zoom to larger/smaller time-frames at the click of a button (of course, if you have a scroll-wheel we also support that!)"

Remember, FusionAnalytics is no one-trick pony and can analyse all sorts of data… CF/IIS/Apache/Custom log files, databases, SNMP polls… and not just for CF - for any type of data.

So teh site has gone down at some point and now you will be able to take all the logs you need, and then tell exactly what happened at that point with the click of a mouse and have your COO and Head of IT Happy again ;)

 
As always stay pinned to the FusionLabs ( http://www.fusion-reactor.com/fr/labs.cfm ) for all our latest BETAs & news.
 

So here are some Images:

They are always working on adding new analytics. Here we see the beginnings of our request size & speed analysis module.

Ever needed to trawl through your logs to find messages (or lack of) for a date range? Wouldn’t it be good if you could combine viewing the log file (by date – not line) with other metrics? In our experience this can be a time-consuming task… or should I say it was a time-consuming task… 

Web service calls generating active sessions. You may have seen the CF8 monitor (which doesn’t store any of this information for later analysis). Integral developed an add-on to store this data so that you can monitor any of the metrics you see in CF8. This way you can analyse the data even after CF8 is restarted. Just take a look at this example where you can see CFThreads, calling webservices (on the same instance) which are generating active sessions. You can immediately see the correlation and know exactly what to investigate.

FusionAnalytics provides a plug-in architecture making it very easy to configure your own visualizations. Here’s a sample from the FusionReactor log analysis plug-in enabling double clicking of request URLs. Note: Although you see text-labels in this snippet, they now have internationalization support based around resource packages.

So all in all Fusion Analytics should save us all time and give more time developing those cool apps in our heads ;)