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Glassbox Features and Benefits

  • 100% free and open source.
  • Web application: deploy it and open its user interface in a browser.
  • Diagnose problems with one click without requiring source-code knowledge.
  • Concise English output reduces miscommunication.
  • Measures SLA violations so teams can prioritize material issues.
  • Low overhead is designed to minimize impact on production applications.
  • Plug-and-play deployment requires no source or build changes.
  • Adapts automatically to application code; no application training is required.
  • Monitor or troubleshoot multiple agents simultaneously from the same client.

Release-candidate improvements

  • More than nine months of improvements since the beta.
  • Improved installation, additional platforms, and improved automation.
  • More monitors for additional frameworks and issue types.
  • Improved integration APIs.
  • Additional testing and bug fixes.

Faults identified out of the box

  • Slow, failed, or broken database queries and connections
  • Failing or slow Java
  • Bottlenecks and thread contention
  • Slow or failing web services and remote procedure calls
  • Inefficient Java code
  • Faulty HTTP
  • Java Mail issues
  • Broken FTP
  • Provides conclusive diagnoses instead of piles of logs and reports.
  • Uses a simple web-based list/detail interface.
  • Uses standards-based monitoring without custom byte-code manipulation.

Supported technology

  • Platforms: Windows, Linux, and Solaris
  • Java 6: Sun, BEA JRockit, and IBM JVMs
  • Java 5: Sun, BEA JRockit, and IBM Java 1.5 JVMs
  • Other Java versions: 1.4.x JVMs from Sun, BEA JRockit, and IBM
  • Databases: Oracle, MySQL, IBM DB2, and SQL Server
  • Application servers: Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss, Oracle OC4J, WebSphere, and Resin

Check with Appvance for support status for additional platforms; support was being expanded.

  • Uses standards-based AspectJ and JMX infrastructure.
  • No licensing restrictions on where Glassbox 2.0 can run.

Last updated: October 15, 2026

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