Stopping a JMeter test

Despite our best efforts, we have all been there before. That load test that just concluded generated thousands of errors that it shouldn’t have. It could have been a miscalculation or a shifted decimal place on estimated traffic volumes; or rather it was a configuration setting on the target machines that was overlooked. Regardless, we wish we could have intercepted that test early in its execution, possibly saving valuable time, data charges, and virtual machine costs.Read More →

test results in stunning Grafana

Making sense of load test performance metrics and displaying in a manner necessary to drive business decisions can be a challenging endeavor. This data usually comes from multiple different sources, and collecting it can be cumbersome. One way to lessen this burden is to automate the collection of these performance metrics into a unified analysis platform. This is precisely how one customer has leveraged simple plugins and a popular time series database to effortlessly display theirRead More →

MSD ease of using RedLine13

Senior Automation Engineer Eldad Uzman compares RedLine13 to BlazeMeter and setting up their own load test environment at MSD Animal Health Intelligence Technology Labs and the ease of using RedLine13. He spoke at the first RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting. A 73 second video of the conversation has been posted on RedLine13’s YouTube channel. Read more about what other RedLine13 customers said about why they chose RedLine13 and how they’re using it. You can try RedLine13 for free.Read More →

Million Concurrent User Load Testing

Load testing with a high concurrent user count can be challenging in many ways. This post will tell you about how one team did it with one million user testing with JMeter and the challenges they faced. Requirements Thinklogic, a Los Angeles based consulting firm specializing in web development and custom business software solutions, was tasked with quickly building and load testing a highly scalable web-based application that would handle one million concurrent users. The highRead More →

ITRex Chose RedLine13

ITRex is a software development and consulting company that “creates and transforms products and enterprises to drive growth.” They wrote a blog post: Why ITRex chose RedLine13 as the primary load testing tool. Their post walks through the advantages and then gives some examples of ITRex customers. One customer was an e-commerce platform owner, struggling with their response time and downtimes, so their bounce rates went up and sales decreased. They used RedLine13 to run JMeterRead More →

Though definitions may vary semantically depending on the unique characteristics of your application, there are many customers who choose RedLine13 for running their high volume JMeter load testing. In this article we will evaluate one customer’s experience on our platform, and also discuss why RedLine13 is ideally suited for your high volume JMeter testing needs.Read More →

People know that RedLine13 will save them money compared to other load testing platforms. It’s easy to think that if it costs so little, can RedLine13 support be any good? Because when you need support, you want to get good answers. We heard such positive news from RedLine13 customers at the RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board call who raved about the support they’ve received. So we thought we should let everyone know with a couple of examplesRead More →

A JMeter Soak Test is a long running load test using JMeter. We’ll talk more below. But if you’re going to run a long test, there are costs that need to be understood. We’ll talk about that with an example from RedLine13 customer University of California. What is Soak Testing There is plenty of information out there. Software Testing Help says: “It is a type of performance testing to check if an Application Under Test (AUT)Read More →

Performance test automation usually refers to CI/CD. And CI/CD is an important component, but there is much more. Performance test automation is about anything that reduces manual effort to run tests, to pass information, to communicate, etc. Some companies have even created test automation groups to lead the way for their companies in this important area. We’ll get to that at the end. We’ll look at some key areas where RedLine13 supports performance test automation. CI/CDRead More →