To provide finer grain control over what instances RedLine13 can start, stop, terminate we have added support for launching EC2 load agents with instance profiles. Advanced Topic This is an advanced topic and only supported for premium customers. You can read the AWS Blog Post on Restricting with IAM Policy and instance-profiles. To get started you must set up an instance profile, which is documented at “How to create IAM instance Profile“. Setting up Policy To use this featureRead More →

Postman Load Test

Postman, the popular tool used for building, testing, and delivering API’s, is now compatible with RedLine13 to run a Postman load test. We’ve integrated Postman as a means to run any Postman collection inside RedLine13 as a performance test.  The project is available on github. Postman Collections In Postman, a collection is used to allow you to bundle many different requests into one group. Collections are a great way to organize requests so that they “accurately mirrorRead More →

Feature Updates

Customer request : How do I specify an OAuth key in a Redline13 simple test? Great request to make it even easier to get load tests started quickly.  To execute an OAUTH 2.0 API call you will likely need two headers, Api-Keye and Authorization. We are going to use Getty Image API as an example. “Start a New Test” and select Simple Test Enter URL you want to test https://api.gettyimages.com/v3/boards Go to “Advanced Simple Test Options” SelectRead More →

Customer request : Is there an easy way to start a cloud load test that just POSTs some JSON to a URL? Great request to make it even easier to get load tests started quickly. 1. “Start a New Test” and select Simple Test 2. Enter URL you want to test 3. Go to “Advanced Simple Test Options” 4. Select Type : POSTBODY 5. Select your content-type 6. Paste in your BODY 7. Of course determineRead More →

Composer Plugin RedLine13

Release – Composer Plugin for Load Testing Ready for release – Composer Plugin. Composer is a Dependency Manager for PHP which allows you to install various packages before you run a load test. Users just need to install the Plugin (refer to our plugin instillation guide) and are then immediately able to get started using the plugin for custom PHP tests. How to use To include packages with your custom PHP test Include an extra file with your testRead More →

  Based on feedback that we have been hearing from our users, we have recently created a node version manager plugin. With this new plugin, RedLine13 now supports pretty much any version of Node.JS which makes it easier to run custom load tests. Instead of having to use command line prompts for node version manager, users are now able to easily access almost every version of Node.JS. To see the full documentation about this plugin, visitRead 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 →

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 →