CBDebugger : Debug your Box apps with ease!

The ColdBox Debugger module is a lightweight performance monitor and profiling tool for ColdBox applications. It can generate a friendly debugging panel on every rendered page or a dedicated visualizer to make your ColdBox application development more excellent, funnier, and greater!

1. CFCAMP 2024 - Luis Majano
CB DEBUGGER
FOR MODERN DEVELOPMENT

2. •Computer Engineer
•Coding since year 9
•Creator of all things box!
•Documentation Weirdo!
Luis Majano
CEO Ortus Solutions
@lmajano @ortussolutions

4. CB Debugger
A tool to debug a Page or API request from one
end to the other and everywhere in-between

5. install cbdebugger —saveDev
https://cbdebugger.ortusbooks.com/

6. Overview
Profile & Report
•Incoming Requests
•Database & ORM Calls
•Hyper HTTP Calls
•Async Tracking
•CacheBox
•Interceptions
•Modules
•Objects
•Tracers and Logs
Visualize
•Debugger Dock
•Debugger Dashboard

7. CB Debugger
Tracking
Options
•Configure each Collector
•Enable/Disable
•Settings

8. CB Debugger Deep Dive: Coldbox Debugger Dashboard

9. CB Debugger Dashboard Actions
SelfPolling

10. CB Debugger Dashboard Actions
Refresh Data

11. CB Debugger Dashboard Actions
Clear All Trackers

12. CB Debugger Dashboard Actions
Reinit ColdBox

13. CB Debugger Dashboard Actions
Java Heap Dump

14. CB Debugger Dashboard Actions
Turn Debugger Off

15. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Debugger Dashboard
Request History
Error Pages

16. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Debugger Dashboard
Request History
Query / ORM Time

17. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Debugger Dashboard
Request History
Total Time

18. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Debugger Dashboard
Request History
See The detail of this entire request

19. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Debugger Dashboard
Request History
Download All Tracking for Request in JSON

20. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Debugger Dashboard
JSON Tracking Export
Queries
HTTP Request

21. CB Debugger Deep Dive: Coldbox Debugger Dock

22. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Debugger Dock
Tracks the current request
Current Coldbox Version

23. CB Debugger
Application Name (Server.json/.env)
Environment (Server.json/.env)
Deep Dive: Coldbox Debugger Dock
Tracks the current request

24. CB Debugger
Lucee Version & Java Version (Java 8)
Deep Dive: Coldbox Debugger Dock
Tracks the current request

25. CB Debugger
CB Debugger Dashboard Home Page
Deep Dive: Coldbox Debugger Dock
Tracks the current request

26. CB Debugger Deep Dive: Request Tracker
Page/AJAX URL
& Return Status Code
Internal Event Route
Actions

27. CB Debugger
Total Page Loading Time
DB & Page Load
Deep Dive: Request Tracker

28. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Debug Tabs

29. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Debug Tabs
Number of Items / Queries

30. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Debug Tabs
Total Query Time
Should be equal or less depending on if you actually were using QB / Quick (which calls QB)

31. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Execution Timers
Automatic Timers
for interceptors

32. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Execution Timers
Layouts
Timing

33. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Execution Timers
Internal Run Event
Called by the Layout

34. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Add Custom Timers

35. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Add Custom Timers

36. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Execution Profiler
Profiler

37. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Execution Profiler
Single
Method Profiler
Profile
All Methods

38. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: WireBox Creations
Wirebox
Creation

39. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: ColdBox Interceptions

40. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: ColdBox Event Information
Event {module}: Handler / Action
Event Caching is on and useable on the page
Layout from Layouts folder (overridable)
Route with Placeholder
Route with action filled in from URL
Metadata that can be added via the router
HTML View template in the views folder

41. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Http Request
Stored
Request
Information
JVM Memory
At the time of
The request

42. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Http Request
Headers
Cookies
Encoding
Cache Control
Gzip, etc.

43. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Tracer Messages (Logbox)
Internal Debugging and logging
Pulled directly in and tied with the request

44. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Coldbox Request Structures
Use this sparingly, Tracking multiple RC/PRC
collections can crash your server

45. CB Debugger
Deep Dive:
Enable
Query
Performance

46. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: Query Performance/Duplication
Query being called
Number of times and code locations it’s being
called from

47. CB Debugger
Deep Dive:
Query
Performance
CBORM
Total Query Time & Count
Grouped & Ordered
Passed In Params
Formatted SQL for
easy reading

48. CB Debugger
Deep Dive:
Query
Performance
Lucee/Adobe
Total Query Time & Count
Grouped & Ordered

49. CB Debugger
Deep Dive:
Query
Performance
QB/Quick
Total Query Time & Count
Grouped & Ordered

50. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: ColdBox Modules
Modules
Dependencies
Start Times

51. CB Debugger Deep Dive: ColdBox CacheBox
All Caches Created
Cache Hit Ratio
JVM Memory

52. CB Debugger Deep Dive: ColdBox CacheBox
Actual Cached Items
Click to see exactly what is in the cache

53. CB Debugger Deep Dive: ColdBox Async
Scheduler Pool
All the tasks completed/active

54. CB Debugger
Deep Dive: CB Debugger
Heap Dump

55. Fall 2024
CB DEBUGGER v5
Sneak Peek

56. Live Request Debugging
•Comprehensive Performance Monitoring
•Detailed metrics on response times
•System resource usage
•Individual route performance
•Extensive Error and Exception Tracking
•Real-time error logging
•Detailed analysis capabilities
•Full Database Query Profiling
•Logging of all database interactions
•Identifying slow and inefficient queries
•Detailed Request Timeline
•Visual timeline views
•Route-specific performance data

61. Overview Dashboard
•Memory, CPU & Storage Monitor
•Cache Hits/Misses/Hit Rate
•Slow Database Queries
•Slow & Invalid Routes
•Top Exceptions
•404 Page Monitor
•Slow Outgoing Requests
•Slow Jobs
•Outdated Modules
•Slow Tracers

64. Overview Dashboard
•Memory, CPU & Storage Monitor
•Cache Hits/Misses/Hit Rate
•Slow Database Queries
•Slow & Invalid Routes
•Top Exceptions
•404 Page Monitor
•Slow Outgoing Requests
•Slow Jobs
•Outdated Modules
•Slow Tracers

65. Coming Soon
•Complete UI Update
•ColdBox 6, 7, 8 Support
•BoxLang Support
•JDBC Storage
•Parent-Child Transactions
•Thread Tracking

66. INTO THE BOX 2024
Thank You !
CFCAMP 2024