{"id":349,"date":"2024-03-13T15:08:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T21:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.xbytecloud.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:42:52","slug":"sessions-killed-my-coldfusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbytecloud.com\/blog\/sessions-killed-my-coldfusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sessions Killed My ColdFusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cloud Experts Unleashed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Troubleshooting Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Collect ColdFusion thread dump and heap dump<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use eclipse memory analyzer to see regions of heap space being consumed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Found ColdFusion runtime memory session scope was consuming majority of java heap space<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Block known bots<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ColdFusion Session Management &#8211; check for cookies &#8211; doesn&#8217;t accept cookies then we assume it is a bot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Useful Links<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What to collect when ColdFusion crashes &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xbytecloud.com\/what-to-collect-when-coldfusion-crashes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/blog.xbytecloud.com\/what-to-collect-when-coldfusion-crashes\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ColdFusion Session Management &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/help.xbytecloud.com\/t\/coldfusion-session-management\/61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/help.xbytecloud.com\/t\/coldfusion-session-management\/61<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To learn more about ColdFusion at xByte Cloud, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbytecloud.com\/coldfusion\/hosting\/coldfusion-cloud-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.xbytecloud.com\/coldfusion\/hosting\/coldfusion-cloud-hosting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sessions Killed My ColdFusion\" width=\"819\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iSyfvZJXrqk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud Experts Unleashed In this episode, Austin Shelton, xByte Cloud Senior Dev Ops Engineer, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"18","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coldfusion","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbytecloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbytecloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbytecloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbytecloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbytecloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbytecloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbytecloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbytecloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbytecloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbytecloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbytecloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}