Load Testing Troubleshooting

Anyone who has done load testing knows it’s a lot more than creating a script and running it. There are going to be times when it requires what we call ‘Advanced Load Testing Troubleshooting’. Here is a real case of a RedLine13 customer who was trying to figure out what was causing an unusual load testing graph result. The issue was the graph Percentiles per Page Response Time graph. But sometimes the problem we see isRead More →

This is one of our most popular blog posts – File Uploads. Check out a new section #3: Adding Parameters to your HTTP Request. Read below for lots of great information. There are many cases of testing performance of API Endpoints for file uploads. We chose to demonstrate scaling out such a test building our load test plan in JMeter. JMeter supports file uploads natively within the HTTP Request, and Redline13 supports attaching files to your test plan.Read More →

Real-time RedLine13 Graphs

This is one of our most popular blog posts. We’ve updated it again with information you may not know about with real-time RedLine13 graphs. RedLine13 graphs are aggregated from all load tests and can be viewed in real-time. What if you want to see specific time? It’s easy. Just select the time slice in the graph and see it immediately. Check out some of the updates to graphs that we highlighted in the past. After hearingRead More →

This is one of our most popular posts – JMeter Capturing Full Output. We’ve updated the post with new and updated content with the help of contributor Mustafa Mahir Kaplancı. See the updates at the end of the post. While running a distributed Apache JMeter test how can you capture the full output instead of just performance results? The following steps will show how to do what we call JMeter Capturing Full Output.. One is because ofRead More →

Here are some questions we’ve received on a common topic: how to whitelist IP addresses for load testing. Q: We are using the Redline13 Basic Subscription for load testing and would like to know the Public IP’s that we need to whitelist for the test to be successful. A: It sounds like your application is behind a whitelist and you need the load agents to be able to connect to it.  The simplest way is toRead More →

Our summer intern, Eric Kinner, submitted this blog post. With my RedLine13 internship coming to a close, now is the time to reflect on my experience here. Going into this internship, I only had the knowledge that my college classes had afforded me. I had experience coding in Java from my courses, some HTML and CSS knowledge from my own personal projects, and a little bit of exposure to PHP through my database class. Simply put,Read More →

Load Tests from Hyderabad

AWS announced that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is now open. RedLine13 announces that you can use RedLine13 in the Stockholm AWS Region for Load Testing. The Stockholm Region joins Frankfurt, Ireland, London and Paris as the fifth AWS Region in Europe, and the 20th AWS Region worldwide. The AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region consists of three Availability Zones and with this launch, the AWS Global Infrastructure now offers 60 Availability Zones worldwide, serving customers in overRead More →

Alex Podelko wrote about the state of load testing in 2014. He recently did a load testing comparison to see what changed since then. And he realizes that the winds of change have changed it a lot. It’s titled “Are Times still Good for Load Testing?” and is an excellent read. Alex currently serves as a board director for the Computer Measurement Group (CMG), a worldwide organization of performance and capacity management professionals. Read his full bio. It’s crazy (butRead More →

Hong Kong AWS Region for Load Testing

AWS announced that the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is now open. RedLine13 announces that you can use RedLine13 in the Hong Kong AWS Region for Load Testing. The AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is the eighth active AWS Region in Asia Pacific and mainland China along with Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and, Tokyo. With this launch, AWS now spans 64 Availability Zones within 21 geographic regions around the world. RedLine13 has added support forRead More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

Three new ways that life can be a little easier for JMeter Load Testers. We’ll start with the JMeter Dashboard Report. JMeter Dashboard Report You’ve been able to generate the Apache JMeter Dashboard report for a long time yourself or with RedLine13. But you had to download it, then expand, then view.  Now you can View it inline! So you get the RedLine13 generated reports and you also get access to the full JMeter report as well.Read More →