Amazon AWS tagging capability is powerful and yet little used in load testing. Redline13 has supported AWS instance tagging for years.  These tags can be set globally for all load tests under the account settings page, and also individually for each server though our API.  RedLine13 has now increased the number of tags to give you more control and better load testing with AWS instance Tagging. At the end we’ve included how two customers are usingRead More →

Slack Integration with Load Testing

You can get notification alerts into your Slack Channel from RedLine13. Slack is a collaboration hub, where people and information come together helping everyone get work done. This Slack integration with load testing results means you don’t have to wait for your RedLine13 results but will be notified in your Slack channel. Not only that, it’s easy to set up which you’ll see below. You can also be notified by email. This is part of RedLine13Read More →

Postman Load Test

Postman is used for building, testing, and delivering API’s. To do the testing in the cloud we integrated Postman with RedLine13 to run any Postman collection inside RedLine13 as a performance test. The Postman Load Testing project is available on github. Postman Collections In Postman, a collection is used to allow you to bundle many different requests into one group. Collections are a great way to organize requests so that they “accurately mirror your API”. PostmanRead 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 →

API metrics endpoint

The new API metrics endpoint gives you full access to performance data within your RedLine13 test. Instead of downloading the stats data you can query for a single metric or multiple metrics with your test. You can use this data to build your own graphs or trending information. We built this because of a customer request so that they could create their own dashboard. See the API documentation. And for parameters and format, see the new endpoint.Read More →

We would like to introduce a RedLine13 plugin which supports sending load agent system and process metrics to InfluxDB via Telegraf.  There exists a multitude of reasons for wanting to do such, just as one customer has implemented a sophisticated real-time performance metrics dashboard using Grafana. In this step-by-step guide, we will cover the following: Using this plugin Using the plugin with JMeter BackEnd Listener Available stats How the plugin works on load agents Using thisRead More →

API metrics endpoint

We have added a new RedLine13 API that allows you to easily search for your load tests. Users that run multiple load tests periodically or through remote means will especially find this API useful. The API allows you to search for your tests, and it will then return the following data for your results: load_test_id The load test ID load_test_name Name of load test load_test_desc Description provided with test load_test_comments Common field supplied with load testRead More →

We recently had a customer that wanted to test their API service. We’ve added some capabilities to help with that in mind.  You can read more in our documentation – https://www.redline13.com/customTestDoc/index.html.Read More →

We have recently partnered with Red Hat to supply (almost) free load testing for applications built and deployed on the OpenShift PaaS. In our tests, we were able to demonstrate the automated scalability of the OpenShift PaaS and the power of the RedLine load testing tool to help determine sizing requirements. This is a powerful and simple combination for application developers since they can quickly emulate 0 – 50,000+ users hitting their application over a periodRead More →

While RedLine offers the most scalable and lowest cost mechanism to test your web or mobile application, how do you really know what is happening in your application and your environment? New Relic has emerged as the leading tool for monitoring and understanding your application and deployment environment. As the diagram at the right shows, New Relic enables developers and operations experts to drill down in their servers and applications. You can see into your differentRead More →