We continue to have users explore new boundaries for testing.  One user has completed 12 hour tests with over 5 Million Interactions run. We also have users that are doing 100,000 in 1 minute. We had one user start up 25 m3.2xlarge instances.  It cost him $5.00 for an hour of Amazon rental time. We recently did several upgrades to our database infrastructure that should allow for even higher levels of performance. We are creating aRead More →

We recently had a customer that wanted to test their API service. We’ve added some capabilities to help with that in mind.  You can read more in our documentation – https://www.redline13.com/customTestDoc/index.html.Read More →

We are a fairly new service and our early users and bringing new use cases. We are listening and trying to expand our service to meet your needs! We have a couple of users that are trying to emulate over 1,000,000 users.  This overwhelmed our implementation. We have increased the size of the servers we are hosting on Amazon. More importantly we just released yesterday a major upgrade. We have replaced the stat collection with aRead More →

We have recently added the option to deploy spot instances in AWS Ireland for our European users. Note this gives you the flexibility to test out a worldwide load – so you can have load agents in Virginia, Oregon, California and Ireland now!Read More →

We have added an interesting extension to our Zipcode API. This is for applications that have their own database of latitude and longitude positions, but need to calculate items within a certain radius of another latitude/longitude. You can try it here – https://www.zipcodeapi.com/API#radiusSql. Hint – use the Zipcode to Location API to find your specific Lat/Long. You specify the latitude and longitude of a center point, the distance/radius from this location, the field names used in yourRead More →

With the growing number of companies using RedLine for (Almost) Free Load Testing, we are encountering new ways that people are using our service.  Last week we had a large user who collected data over a very long time from a number of users and different URL end points.  This resulted in a large data set and it frankly broke the way we were displaying data in our graphics. We have made some nice improvements, thatRead More →

FEATURED   RedLine Named Amazon AWS Technology Partner RedLine recently completed the requirements to qualify as an AWS Technology Partner. Amazon provides a rich cloud infrastructure that enables us to scale both of our offerings (Load Testing and Zip Code API). We also use their IAM capabilities to automatically deploy powerful and inexpensive Spot Instances in a customer’s AWS account securely. Read more… WHAT’S NEW   Red Hat OpenShift Load Testing RedLine recently worked with Red HatRead More →

We have recently partnered with Red Hat to supply (almost) free load testing for applications built and deployed on the OpenShift PaaS. In our tests, we were able to demonstrate the automated scalability of the OpenShift PaaS and the power of the RedLine load testing tool to help determine sizing requirements. This is a powerful and simple combination for application developers since they can quickly emulate 0 – 50,000+ users hitting their application over a periodRead More →

When you first start a test, there is an initial wait time for RedLine to provision the Spot Instances in your AWS account. Then we have to load the tests scripts and get things synced. This only happens the first time you are starting up those spot instances.  As long as you keep using them, you will not have the wait time. Of course if you run your tests and then let the spot instances die,Read More →