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 →