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.

• 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

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