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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