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 →

RedLine13 Partners - AWS Advanced Technology Partner

Many companies are struggling with the need for comprehensive load testing, the cost of load testing and limited budgets. This post will tell you about something you may not have considered: Load Testing with AWS Spot vs On-Demand Instances. To begin with, RedLine13 understands the high cost of load testing. If you don’t know the RedLine13 story, that’s what led us to create RedLine13 for our own testing. There are many different types of load testingRead More →

A common question that RedLine13 users ask is how many vCPUs needed for load testing. One example of such a question might be: I want to do a load test with 500k users. I’m trying to decide how many vCPUs I would need for this, and therefore which plan to go for with Redline13. Please could you advise me on how many users you’d recommend per vCPU. AWS has an article in their documentation which speaksRead More →

People often ask what it will cost to run a large load test with RedLine13 on AWS, especially for large JMeter tests. We have lots of articles explaining how the AWS costs are determined. But some people have asked to see AWS costs for large JMeter load tests with real results from real customers. We think that listening to our customers is a good idea. So here they are. We’ve included test summaries from five differentRead More →

AWS Multiple Account Setup

There are situations where separation between your application environment and load generating environment are necessary.  In fact, it is generally a feature of a realistic, well-architected load test.  In this article we will explain how you can easily and conveniently configure an AWS multiple account setup for load testing as a measure to secure your application environment. Configuring Access between Multiple Accounts RedLine13 integrates with your AWS account to provision resources on your behalf.  With AWS,Read More →

Signing Up for AWS is Easy and Free

 An AWS account unlocks the most important and useful features of RedLine13.  Signing up for AWS only takes a few minutes and it is free. You only pay for the resources you want, when you need them.  New accounts are eligible for the AWS Free Tier, meaning you can use certain resources completely free for the first 12 months, and other resources which are free forever.  In this post, we will guide you through the stepsRead More →

Estimating AWS Costs for Load Tests

Estimating your AWS costs for load tests is an essential fact of life provided you have any sort of budget.  If you’ve run any number of load tests with us before, you may have come to appreciate the “Data & Server Cost” box on your load test summary metrics. The green box does a reasonable job of approximating your projected AWS spend for your test, with a few caveats we will discuss.Read More →

Distribute your JMeter clients across different regions with RedLine13

This is a guest post from Eldad Uzman, Automation Architect at Merck on how to distribute JMeter clients across different regions. You can read more from Eldad at Medium. When running load tests, you want to make sure your testing setup is as close to production setup as possible.  One of the many things that would contribute to high validity of load tests is the ability to distribute the load across different regions.  Thanks to RedLine13Read More →

Capacity Reservations for Large Load Tests

Scalability is one of the greatest strengths of using a cloud-based architecture.  However, there are occasionally limitations to how quickly we can scale. This is especially true for high volume load testing.  In these scenarios, we need to instantaneously scale a practically nonexistent cloud architecture to our maximum desired size.  It is not always guaranteed that cloud providers like AWS will have these resources idle and waiting in the necessary quantities.  In this post we willRead More →

How to Upload Data Files Above the Limit

There are certain situations where you may need to include files above file size and count limits of your RedLine13 subscription. In this brief guide, we will walk you through how to upload data files above this limit by hosting extra files in AWS S3.Read More →