What’s New With RedLine13?

We’ve been very busy since the last time we’ve reached out to our subscribers. In the time that has passed we have:

• Added new test tracking features
• Updated region support for Amazon Web Services
• Added the ability to create tests based on Apache & NGINX WebServer log files
• Grown to over 2,000 active users 
• Have a combined total of over 27,000 tests ran with RedLine13.
• Brought on new staff members

New Features and Updates

• AWS Region Support Update
  • We have expanded support to include the Asia Pacific/Seoul servers for AWS. With this update we now support all 10 AWS regions. You can now run your tests on any number of servers in any combination of locations.
• Tests Started, Tests Completed, Cumulative Graphs
  • Free and paid RedLine13 users can now track user & thread time starts, how many users have been created, requests started, and threads started. Additionally, you can now see the sum of threads running and completed with our cumulative results and graphics update.
• Load Test with Apache or NGINX Log File Replay
  • Users can now create and run load tests that are based on Apache or NGINX WebServer log files.

News & Other Posts

• The Migration of Internal Systems into The Cloud
  • A comprehensive overview of one of the largest and most important trends within the load testing industry today: the migration of internal testing systems into the cloud. We look at how open source solutions and the cloud are impacting the way we think about load testing, among other things.
• Queue-it Takes a Look at RedLine13
  • Martin Larsen, the Senior Developer for Queue-it, recently wrote a few posts that look at RedLine13 and examine what we have to offer and what cloud-based load testing is all about.
• How RedLine13 Works Alongside BlazeMeter
  • We examine how RedLine13 can work as a complementary service to BlazeMeter in addition to comparing RedLine13 with BlazeMeter in terms of pricing, features, and capabilities.

Guides, Tools, and Tutorials

• Custom Test for Load Testing WebSockets
  • An overview and example of how you can write custom load tests for the purpose of testing WebSockets.
• Log File Cloud Testing with Apache JMeter
  • We show you how to setup and deploy the JMeter Access Log Sampler for the purpose of log file cloud testing.
• Load Testing a List of URLs
  • How to prepare, setup, start, and confirm results when testing a list of various URLs.
• AWS Instance Tagging
  • How to tag AWS instances when running a simple URL, custom PHP/Node.js, Apache JMeter, or Gatling load test.

ZipCode API

• ZipCodeAPI.com (Almost) free distance, radius, and location API
• ZipCode Testing Locally and Resolving CORS Issues
  • A brief guide on how to solve cross-origin resource sharing issues in relation to testing on a local host or javascript.