Getting Elasticfox to work with Amazon's new US west coast location

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Dec 032009

We’re excited about Amazon’s new AWS location. So much so we’ve already started development to bring its benefits to our customers by next week. As such, we had to quickly figure out how to adapt our tools to work with it.

In their announcement, Amazon stated that Elasticfox already worked with the new location. While that’s true, if you tried looking for a new Elasticfox release you’d be in for a surprise: there isn’t one. That’s because it doesn’t need an update to work.

Instead, just fire up your existing Elasticfox installation and click on the Regions button in the upper left corner:

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Posted by Patrick Lightbody at 4:38 pm Tagged with:

Amazon's new US west coast location and BrowserMob's plans

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Dec 032009

Late last night Amazon released an early Christmas present: a third location for which to run Amazon Web Services. This is important news for BrowserMob customers for two reasons:

  • Monitoring – it will be our fifth location from where checks will run from.
  • Load testing – it will be our third location from where traffic can be generated from.

We are committed to moving at the “speed of the cloud” and as such expect to have both of these options available in the next week. We’re excited about Amazon’s commitment to continue to provide geographic diversity to their cloud offering, and we look forward to their expansion to Asia early next year.

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Posted by Patrick Lightbody at 4:34 pm

Announcing dynaTrace AJAX Edition: a first-class IE browser profiler

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Dec 032009

I’m a little late to the party (dynaTrace released their product a couple weeks ago), but I wanted to still highlight their very important tool: dynaTrace AJAX Edition. It’s by far the best browser profiling tool out there – and it’s free!

If you’re familiar with Firebug, then that’ll give you a rough idea of what this product does. However, instead of being a “Swiss Army knife” like Firebug is, dynaTrace did a deep dive on JavaScript profiling.

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Posted by Patrick Lightbody at 11:41 am

The BrowserMob equivalent of a "hosts file"

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Dec 032009

We get this question a lot: “Is there any way to change the hosts files on the machines that your browsers run from?” – or something similar.

The reason is always because there is a desire to monitor or test a site that doesn’t yet have the final DNS mappings put in place (ie: dev, staging, etc) and the development process has up until now worked by having team members edit their “hosts file”, a small DNS override that Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux all support.

This hosts file might look like this:

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Posted by Patrick Lightbody at 10:24 am
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