Three members of the JMeter project team have written a new JMeter Ebook titled Master Apache JMeter From load testing to DevOps.”  The authors are also experts in the performance field. They say that you “will deeply understand how to get the most out of it, be more productive & integrate it into your Agile/DevOps processes.” All new RedLine13 customers get a free copy of the JMeter Ebook. The authors are Antonio Gomes Rodrigues, Philippe Mouawad, and Milamber. They coverRead More →

Websites fail for many reasons. One of the most preventable is due to unexpected load. And it can happen to big sites and small. Now that we’ve almost made it safely to 2019, let’s take a look back at some possible load testing blunders of 2018. The story is familiar. A site does little or no load testing. The site experiences heavy load. The site goes down. Not surprisingly, some of the blunders this year involvedRead More →

You can already see real-time metrics of your tests. An API retrieves Live Load Test Metrics? Why would you want an API that does that while a load test is running? A RedLine13 customer asked for it and it became clear what the benefits would be. This means that while a load test is running, you can be monitoring the test with an API and initiating actions as soon as some event occurs. Which means youRead More →

Most people don’t realize that there are unavailable AWS instance types in certain regions. In other words, every AWS region does not have every AWS instance type. RedLine13 is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner. When you are ready to choose your AWS instance type in RedLine13, you will see ALL of the AWS instance types. But those that are unavailable in that region will be disabled so you can’t choose them. In this example you seeRead More →

SmartBear Pricing is like Expensive Cars

Congratulations SmartBear on releasing LoadNinja, a cloud-based load testing solution. SmartBear pricing is still too expensive for most businesses. Scalability is important, as well as ease of use. But if businesses can’t afford it, then that’s not smart. The cheapest price level is $1,799 for a year and it’s full of limits: 1,000 virtual users, 100 load testing hours and 1 hour Maximum Test. The limitations are still there at $2,999 and $5,999 per year. RedLine13Read More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

RedLine13 continues to be the leader in load testing tools supporting the latest from Apache JMeter. This blog post will focus on load testing with JMeter Nightly. JMeter Nightly builds are “interim builds that are untested and unsupported.” Apache makes clear to  “Use at your own risk!” They are intended for use by developers and others wishing to help with resolving JMeter bugs. RedLine13 does a daily pull of the last Successful build of JMeter. When you runRead More →

Sometimes, you need to use large files in your JMeter tests.  Instead of uploading the files to RedLine13 for each test, you can store the files on your own server and download them on the load agents.  Another advantage of hosting the files yourself is that you might have sensitive information in the file and don’t want to upload it to RedLine13 servers.  To download self-hosted files for JMeter tests, you can use the JMeter FileRead More →

Test Types with Jenkins and RedLine13

This blog will be a deeper dive into Jenkins and RedLine13 and look at executing different test types with Jenkins and RedLine13. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) is a convenient way to build and test your application. Jenkins, one of the most popular open source tool used to perform CI/CD tasks, can also be used to schedule load tests on RedLine13. If you haven’t configured Jenkins with RedLine13, follow this article. You can execute theRead More →

Test Types with Jenkins and RedLine13

Jenkins is one of the most popular open source CI/CD tool used to build, deploy and test your project continuously. RedLine13 supports integration with Jenkins and means you can build, deploy and load test your project continuously with Jenkins. Load test plans can be executed directly from Jenkins. Here are the details for setting up Jenkins-Redline13 integration. Follow the instructions below to build, deploy and load test your project continuously with Jenkins. Before we begin, firstRead More →

RedLine13 Users

RedLine13 Users from across the globe have a lot to say about what’s important to them when load testing. Singapore Lyon Lim, Cofounder and CEO of PigeonLab, maker of PigeonHole Live: “An indispensable tool we use to load/stress test upcoming features, as well as optimising performance. Beneath the hood, your tech is solid! RedLine13 has been able to help us test large scale events for Pigeonhole Live. For example, before we released Quiz, we made sureRead More →