cloud-load-testing

Intro We can gain a lot of insight into how applications or websites perform thanks to load testing. If you’re serious about testing, running tests inside your local environment will only take you so far. Eventually you will need some kind of solution that allows you to scale. This is where cloud load testing comes into play. Before the cloud, testing was very expensive to run. The costs associated with running & maintaining the hardware neededRead More →

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Load Agent Location Manager With our update, you can now control exactly which load agent locations you want to see and use. For example, if you only test on Virginian servers, it’d be best to only activate that load agent location, thus increasing your page’s reload time. You can also control the default subnet and security groups for all load agents: If you want to get started with the load agent location manager, begin by loggingRead More →

On December 13th, Amazon added new European servers located in London that will be offered to their AWS users, further expanding their infrastructure. RedLine13 has now added support for these new servers in London (eu-west-2), meaning you can now cloud load test in 14 different AWS server locations throughout the world. With this new addition, RedLine13 users can now run tests on servers in: London (eu-west-2) Canada (ca-central-1) Virginia (us-east-1) Ohio (us-east-2) California (us-west-1) Oregon (us-west-2) Ireland (eu-west-1) Frankfurt,Read More →

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We have improved the way error messages are displayed during test startup. Previously, error messages from AWS were being hidden. Rather than showing raw error from AWS, it would say “Automatically canceled due to test startup error”: The generic message was not clearly stating the issue. We’ve added two new updates that will fix this: Real-Time Pre-Test Messages First, during a test starting up with a Spot Instance request, we will show real time the messagesRead More →

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On December 8th, Amazon added new servers in Canada that will be offered to their AWS users, further expanding their infrastructure. RedLine13 has now added support for the Canadian servers (ca-central-1), giving you even more flexibility when it comes to scaling load tests in the cloud. With this new addition, RedLine13 users can now run tests on servers in: Canada (ca-central-1) Virginia (us-east-1) Ohio (us-east-2) California (us-west-1) Oregon (us-west-2) Ireland (eu-west-1) Frankfurt, Germany (eu-central-1) Sao Paolo,Read More →

apache-jmeter-3-1-redline13

The Apache Software foundation has recently released version 3.1 of JMeter and RedLine13 now supports running JMeter tests written in 3.1. JMeter is the most popular testing tool that is used by RedLine13 users. Here’s how you can get started with JMeter 3.1 on RedLine13: Step 1: begin by logging into your RedLine13 account and hit “Start A New Test” Step 2: Click on the “Jmeter Test” tab located at the top to create a newRead More →

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The Apache Software Foundation has recently delivered the newest version of JMeter, version 3.1, and RedLine13 now offers support for this latest release: What’s New in JMeter 3.1 1.) Updated Reports and Dashboard Connect Time Over Time The new graph, “Connect Time over Time” allows you to see the amount of time it took each request to connect throughout the course of your test. As performance testers, response time is something we pay special attention to and this graph allowsRead More →

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Three years ago, RedLine13 started out when Stephen Sigwart and Bob Bickel needed to do some stress testing for their new company, RunSignUp. They needed to simulate 50,000 concurrent users hitting their site at the same time. Upon discovering just how expensive this was with other providers, they figured that they could just build a solution for themselves to load test at a fraction of the cost. What began as a small internal tool for load testingRead More →

We would like to introduce a RedLine13 plugin which supports sending load agent system and process metrics to InfluxDB via Telegraf.  There exists a multitude of reasons for wanting to do such, just as one customer has implemented a sophisticated real-time performance metrics dashboard using Grafana. In this step-by-step guide, we will cover the following: Using this plugin Using the plugin with JMeter BackEnd Listener Available stats How the plugin works on load agents Using thisRead More →

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  Kranthi Paidi of PerfAcademy joined us to discuss some of the in and outs of monitoring JMeter tests. PrefAcademy was founded with the mission to provide quality education and training services for software performance testers and engineers, and we’ll get to hear all about JMeter monitoring from the teachers themselves. In this webinar they cover: Real-time monitoring your Apache JMeter results current limitations of backend listeners modified JAR from TAG The need for more extensiveRead More →