Sessions Killed My ColdFusion

Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 14 In this episode, Austin Shelton, xByte Cloud Senior Dev Ops Engineer, and Ryan Brown, xByte Cloud CMO, discuss a recent customer issue where session management was causing their ColdFusion to crash. Troubleshooting Steps • Collect ColdFusion thread dump and heap dump • Use eclipse memory analyzer to see regions of heap space being consumed • Found ColdFusion runtime memory session scope was consuming majority of java heap space • Block known bots • ColdFusion Session Management - check for cookies - doesn't accept cookies then we assume it is a bot Useful Links What to collect when ColdFusion crashes ColdFusion Session Management To learn more about ColdFusion at xByte Cloud, visit https://www.xbytecloud.com/hosting/windows-coldfusion-managed-server