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Understanding Monitoring Traces, Extended Traces, and Profiles

Let’s dive into the different levels of data collected and used by Blackfire, including Monitoring Traces, Extended Traces, and Profiles

By Thomas di Luccio, on Jan 30, 2023

Getting started with the Blackfire test suite: part 1 of a series

In the first part of a series of articles, learn how to use Blackfire’s testing suite and how to run your first test.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Jan 19, 2023

Feature Focus: “Metrics Revolutions”, Episode 3

Custom metrics are one of the most powerful features of Blackfire, giving you the ability to fine-tune how your profiles are rendered.

By Jérôme Vieilledent, on Jul 16, 2020

Automatically Profiling Ajax Requests

Here is an example of how we deal with profiling Ajax requests automatically in our test suite, thanks to the Blackfire Player

By Christophe Dujarric, on Mar 05, 2019

Automatically Profiling an App secured by OAuth

When scripting test scenarios for an app, a common use case requires to simulate a user logging in to an app via an OAuth. Here’s how we do this for our own tests.

By Christophe Dujarric, on Mar 01, 2019

Video – Automating Performance Testing

Watch our December 2018 webinar recording on why and how to automate performance testing, in dev, test and production.

By Beau Simensen, on Feb 12, 2019

Video – Getting Started with Blackfire

Watch our December 2018 webinar recording, and learn how to profile and read profiles with Blackfire.

By Beau Simensen, on Feb 08, 2019

Video – Introduction to Blackfire

Watch our December 2018 webinar recording on how Blackfire can support improving PHP Code performance, as a first critical step to deliver optimal end-user experience.

By Beau Simensen, on Feb 06, 2019

Learn about Blackfire at our upcoming webinars

We’re kicking off a series of webinars to help people learn about Blackfire.

By Beau Simensen, on Oct 12, 2018

Automated Testing 101

Everyone writes tests, right? Well, if you don’t, here’s a few easy things you can do to bootstrap.

By Christophe Dujarric, on Aug 30, 2018