When launching a performance test using your AWS account you can tag the AWS instances.  Tagging helps customers with reporting and searching in their AWS dashboard for RedLine13 usage. Tagging helps customers with reporting and searching in their AWS dashboard for RedLine13 usage. For reference, this is how AWS Tagging works: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tags.html DefaultTagging Tagging can be configured on the account level and defaulted to ON if needed. Account -> Your Settings Add Custom Key / Custom Value Check if you wantRead More →

We have added support for Seoul Asia Pacific (Seoul), enabling all 10 AWS regions. Region Name Region US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 US West (N. California) us-west-1 US West (Oregon) us-west-2 EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2 South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1 Selected Advanced Cloud Options Drop down Location Select “Asia Pacific (Seoul)” Run your tests. Not all instances sizes andRead More →

New Feature Alert! We track User or Thread time starts Graphs can show cumulative results Both apply to free load test or subscription cloud load test User or Thread Starts Simple or Custom PHP load tests will show Users created Apache JMeter will show Threads started Cumulative Results In combination with User/Thread starts you can see sum of threads running and completed. Cumulative results can also be used with Individual Results KB Data from Responses Simple PHP testRead More →

How to use the Duration Assertion to fail a test? The Apache JMeter Duration Assertion documentation http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#Duration_Assertion  Definition: The Duration Assertion validates that each response is received within a given amount of time. Any response that takes longer than the given number of milliseconds (specified by the user) is recorded as a failed response. Parameter Usage Duration in milliseconds If the requests take longer than ms supplied, Sampler is considered failed Apply to Main and Sub-Samples Main SamplesRead More →

Help Wanted – Digital Marketing Customer Advocate. The primary purpose of this position is to help serve our customers better by explaining how they can improve their engineering quality, cost, and time to market.  There are several aspects to this: Develop case studies of existing customers. Develop best practice material on different topics. Manage the deployment of this material via our social media including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, newsletter and new channels of communications. Talk via phone, emailRead More →

In many test scenarios, you want to hit an internal application running on a private AWS subnet. The application access is managed by an internal ELB with a distinct security group.   A quick way to enable RedLine13 and other load testing agents is to use a security group with only outbound access.  Then allow the Internal ELB to be accessed by servers in this security group.  These test agents will need a public IP, but youRead More →

AWS has made networking configuration many times simpler over managing your hardware. Anyone now has the power to create a network, but with such power comes a lot of mistakes.  One of the challenges comes with load testing internal applications hosted on AWS. This article is a general guide which could help anyone testing internal applications. In the end, we demonstrate launching a RedLine13 load test within AWS private subnet communicating externally through an NAT gateway. Note:Read More →

We are happy to call this our Valentine’s release, all features are driven by user requests.   As always feedback and new ideas welcome. Simple Test Plan now has RampUp time. Team Filtering Detailed Percentiles for pages Summary View Requests Table Requests Table Filter Kill Servers for Managed Servers with Policy Validation Averaging Graphs Aligning Graphs timestamp AutoIncrement Test Name Overview Requests/Threads includes Error Data Request Metrics with KB per request and Averages Error Graphs by URL: Error Rate,Read More →

Is our math right? 365 Days * 24 hours = 8760 * 10 years = 87,760 hours. Ten Years of Load Testing Here are 10 years of load testing served on RedLine13. #1 – Economic Satisfaction 10 years of load testing, for a total cost – less than an annual subscription to any large enterprise plan in the market? Can you say we are changing the economics of how this all works? We are just getting started.Read More →

What are WebSockets The WebSockets specification enables Web applications to maintain bidirectional communications with server-side processes, this specification introduces the WebSocket interface. In plain words: You can maintain a persistent connection between client and server which is available for data communication anytime while the connection is open.  Some resources and tutorials include WebSockets.org HTML5Rocks Introducing WebSockets Using JMeter to Create WebSocket Requests By default, JMeter does not provide a websocket sampler. However, the JMeter community is pretty powerful.   MaciejRead More →