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