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