LoadRunner Alternative

The University of California had been using LoadRunner for years when they decided they needed to reduce cost. Anu Manerkar spoke about needing a LoadRunner alternative and selecting RedLine13 at the RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting Moving from LoadRunner to RedLine13 was really good, much more than what we expected. Anu Manerikar, University of California Office of the President Her talk can be found in the RedLine13 YouTube Channel. She specifically made a point about theRead More →

Moved to RedLine13

We feel like you guys really focus on what is core and essential for performance testing, without all the glitter on top, which is awesome. Heath Meyer, ACT Lead Software Engineer at the RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board Listen to Heath on the RedLine13 YouTube channel talk about RedLine13 with questions from co-founder Bob Bickel at the first RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting, which was held virtually. They looked into BlazeMeter alternatives, mainly because of cost. ACTRead More →

What can you expect from RedLine13 in 2021? Some things will change for our customers while we are happy to say that other things won’t. RedLine13 will still be a low cost, open source, cloud-based load testing platform. How low cost? RedLine13 users have run over 1.2 million hours of RedLine13 load tests at a cost of about 26 cents per hour. That will not change in 2021. What do our customers like about RedLine13? WeRead More →

JMeter Videos

RedLine13 has partnered with Pragmatic Test Labs to develop a new series of JMeter videos. Pragmatic Test Labs is a Software Testing company based in Sri Lanka. They provide services ranging from manual E2E testing, test automation to performance testing. Janesh Kodikara is the founder/CEO of Pragmatic Test Labs and an experienced software tester, test automation/JMeter trainer. Janesh has also started JMeter Facebook group to create a platform for performance testers around the world. It currentlyRead More →

JMeter Throughput Controlling

Performance testing is a type of non functional testing intended to determine the responsiveness, throughput, reliability, and/or scalability of a system under a given workload. Throughput is the number of units of work that can be handled per unit of time; for instance, number of requests per second (RPS) , calls per day, hits per second, reports per year, etc.  In this video controlling the throughput is demonstrated. Throughput is a business concern. Throughput can beRead More →

JMeter has become the industry standard for load testing. If you don’t know, JMeter is an Apache project used as a load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of various services, with a focus on web applications. This post will talk about some very different companies and their efforts to scale their JMeter tests. If you are running JMeter locally and need to simulate many concurrent users, there are limitations on the number ofRead More →

Steps to JMeter Scaling

We have been asked some questions on how JMeter scaling works. First a little background and then we’ll talk about how you can do it.  If you are running JMeter locally and you need to simulate a larger number of concurrent users, there are limitations on the number of concurrent users you can run. It depends on the CPU and memory of the machine. And running a large test on a single machine can quickly hitRead More →

JMeter Tips for optimizing test plan RedLine13

While Apache Jmeter is packed with features and is extremely powerful, this popular testing tool can be a little daunting at times for first-time user that want to optimize their test plans. In this article we are going to take a look at 8 useful tips for optimizing JMeter tests plans which in turn help you become a more efficient tester. Don’t run Production Load Tests in GUI Mode While it’s okay to run small testsRead More →

JMeter Dashboard Reporting Filter

The JMeter Dashboard Reporting Filter has a neat ability to only show reports for selected metrics in the JMeter Dashboard Report. Read more in Apache JMeter. We have added support for this in the JMeter Report Plugin in Advanced JMeter settings in RedLine13. If you configure the filtering options for the JMeter report then your RedLine13 graphs will have all your normal responses. While the JMeter Dashboard Report available after test completion in the “Output Files”Read More →

Configure JMeter Thread Counts

A very common practice in JMeter is to make the number of threads per server configurable by passing in as a parameter to your thread group. We recently received a question from RedLine13 customer University of California about this. Sundar Thiru, Manager of Performance and Automation Testing, asked how to configure JMeter thread counts per test in RedLine13. You simply launch this in RedLine13 and use Advanced JMeter Options to pass in your settings at runtime.Read More →