Load testing may seem like a tiresome, difficult, and expensive task, however that is actually far from the truth. Here at RedLine13 we’re all about “almost” free load testing, and even when you do have to pay for testing, the cost is exponentially less compared to other services out there. Additionally, load testing isn’t necessarily as complicated or involved as you might think, as our users and others have been saying. Martin Larsen, the Senior DeveloperRead More →

Forward Being able to recognize and understand major industry shifts and trends is something we value highly here at RedLine13. It allows us to continue to not only improve upon ourselves, but to also keep our readers and users informed and up-to-date with what’s going on in the world of load/performance testing. This is why we have introduced a new blog “mini-series”, if you will, which will focus entirely on important industry trends. For the first entryRead More →

A new plugin was added for CustomPHP tests on RedLine13. You can now include a composer.json file along side your custom test This is the package manager https://getcomposer.org/ with access to the packages at https://packagist.org/ Then select to enable the plugin When the test launches the plugin will update to latest composer run composer update to pull in the packages specified in your composer.json Then your test will begin its execution. This was used recently to demonstrate load testing websockets.  Read More →

Example to write custom load tests for testing WebSockets. Files Required Custom Test Class : https://github.com/redline13/custom-loadtests/blob/master/WebSocketLoadTest.php composer.json to include dependencies : https://github.com/redline13/custom-loadtests/blob/master/composer.json WebSockets Client package https://github.com/Textalk/websocket-php from Fredrik Liljegren @ TextTalk Running Test Select CustomTest Add Custom Test Class Add composer.json with dependencies Enable the composer plugin for Custom tests Select Your # Users and Cloud Options Run your Test Example Test https://www.redline13.com/share/testplan/26555      Read More →

At RedLine13 we aim to offer our users a streamlined, informative, and reliable service that often times works in sync with other load testing platforms and services. From running simple URL tests to testing various API’s, we’ve got your back. As RedLine13 continues to offer some of the most competitive subscription pricing on the market (after all, we are “almost” free load testing), RedLine13 becomes a viable and appealing solution not only to be used independently,Read More →

Typically, whether we are starting a load test or developing a strategy used for load testing, we often come to wonder about the specifics of the user’s usage patterns. “What exactly are users doing once they’re on our website?”, is a very common question that we often hear. Thankfully, web server access logs can help us answer this question and others due to the fact that these logs contain a range of information like HTTP requests,Read More →

Log File Replay – just a list of URLs . If you have a list of URLs you can cloud load test them at scale. Prepare your list of URLs in a simple file.   One line per file / /Pricing /Services /Races?name=love&distance=&max_distance=&units=K&start_date=2016-04-07&end_date=&eventType=&country=US&state=&radius=5&zipcodeRadius= /NotAPage Start  A New Test and use “Log Replay Test” Setup your base URL Attach the file we created above Slect Log File Template – “Plain List” and your pattern will be %U TestRead More →

You can now create an (Almost) free load test based on an Apache or NGINX WebServer log files. Why? Customers asked for it! A customer asked us for the following: extract from say 5 minutes of traffic on the current web server logs the list of the urls which are called and then try to replicate the exact list of calls on our infrastructure and see what happens. Limitations We support GET requests only. POST data isRead More →

When launching a performance test using your AWS account you can tag the AWS instances.  Tagging helps customers with reporting and searching in their AWS dashboard for RedLine13 usage. Tagging helps customers with reporting and searching in their AWS dashboard for RedLine13 usage. For reference, this is how AWS Tagging works: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tags.html DefaultTagging Tagging can be configured on the account level and defaulted to ON if needed. Account -> Your Settings Add Custom Key / Custom Value Check if you wantRead More →

We have added support for Seoul Asia Pacific (Seoul), enabling all 10 AWS regions. Region Name Region US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 US West (N. California) us-west-1 US West (Oregon) us-west-2 EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2 South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1 Selected Advanced Cloud Options Drop down Location Select “Asia Pacific (Seoul)” Run your tests. Not all instances sizes andRead More →