Glassbox Features and Benefits

  • 100% FREE and Open Source.

  • Glassbox is a web app, drop it in and point your browser to our UI

  • Anyone can diagnose a problem with one click, without knowing the code

  • Concise English output ends miscommunication and finger-pointing

  • Measures SLA violations, so you know which problems matter

  • Low overhead won't slow down production applications

  • Plug and play. Up in minutes with no source or build changes needed.

  • Adapts to your code automatically, no need to 'train the app'

  • Monitor or Troubleshoot multiple agents simultaneously with the same client

    • Release Candidate New and Improved:

    • 9+ months of improvements from the Beta

    • Improved installation, more platforms, improved automation

    • More Monitors, Glassbox understands more frameworks and finds more issues

    • Improved APIs for integration

    • And last but not least... More tested and more bug fixes

  • Pinpoints Faults Out of the Box:

    • Slow database query

    • Database connection failure

    • Broken database query

    • Failing Java

    • Slow Java

    • Bottleneck or thread contention

    • Slow or Failing web service

    • Inefficient Java code

    • Slow or Failing remote procedure call

    • Faulty HTTP

    • Java Mail Issues

    • Broken FTP

  • Conclusive diagnoses, not piles of logs and reports

  • Simple web-based list/detail UI paradigm

  • Safe, only standards-based monitoring, no custom byte-code manipulation

  • Technology Supported:

    • Platforms: Windows/Linux/Solaris

    • Java6 Versions: From Sun, BEA JRockit, and IBM

    • Java5 Versions: Java 1.5 JVMs from Sun, BEA JRockit, and IBM

    • Other Java Versions: 1.4.x JVMs from Sun, BEA JRockit, and IBM

    • Databases: Oracle / MySQL / IBM DB2 / SQL Server

    • Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss, Oracle OC4j, Websphere, Resin

    • Please check back, or contact us on the forums about support for other platforms. We are actively adding support for other technology platforms.

  • Robust, flexible, easily adaptable: uses standards-based AspectJ and JMX infrastructure

  • No licensing and no rules about where you can or cannot run Glassbox 2.0