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Hong Kong AWS Region for Load Testing

AWS announced that the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is now open. RedLine13 announces that you can use RedLine13 in the Hong Kong AWS Region for Load Testing. The AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is the eighth active AWS Region in Asia Pacific and mainland China along with Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and, Tokyo. With this launch, AWS now spans 64 Availability Zones within 21 geographic regions around the world. RedLine13 has added support forRead More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

Three new ways that life can be a little easier for JMeter Load Testers. We’ll start with the JMeter Dashboard Report. JMeter Dashboard Report You’ve been able to generate the Apache JMeter Dashboard report for a long time yourself or with RedLine13. But you had to download it, then expand, then view.  Now you can View it inline! So you get the RedLine13 generated reports and you also get access to the full JMeter report as well.Read More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

RedLine13 users ask if is possible to add custom libraries with a JMeter test using RedLine13. For example, a user had a JMeter script using two JSON libraries to construct a JSON request. They wanted to upload the libraries and run the test with them. The answer is Yes. And it’s simple to do. How to Use Custom Libraries with a JMeter Test You can simply attach them as extra files as shown below. They willRead 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 →

Customers often ask: Which is the best AWS instance for load testing? It’s a great question. However it never has a direct answer:) As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, we’ve had a lot of experience with AWS. Here’s how we respond. 1 – First, it depends on what kind of testing framework you’re using, whether it’s JMeter, Gatling, Selenium or something else. For simple HTTP endpoint test or simple PHP/Python, start with T class. For otherRead More →

People often get confused in the usage of JMeter Loop Count and JMeter Thread Count and more importantly, how will it impact their load test. Do you know the answers? Here are two scenarios: Scenario 1: If the number of thread count is 10, ramp-up time is 10 and loop count is 1. Scenario 2: If the number of thread count is 1, ramp-up time is 1 and loop count is 10. What is the differenceRead More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

The JMeter Plugin Parallel Controller is very helpful for a number of different testing scenarios. For example, if you have to log in to a website and then have to fetch data. You may have created one thread group and created two HTTP requests, one for login and one to fetch data. But you want the login HTTP request to hit one time and data fetching to hit for many virtual users. How will this workRead More →

RedLine13 Reviews on Capterra logo

RedLine13 reviews are now on Capterra. Capterra is the leading online resource for business software buyers. Capterra is a Gartner company that features validated user reviews and independent research across hundreds of software categories. We are pleased to see that we’ve already received some reviews and a lot of 5’s. If you’re new to RedLine13, it’s probably more important for you to read the RedLine13 reviews pros and cons that each validated reviewer provided to Capterra.Read More →

If you’ve never run a load test, here’s where to figure out how to run your first load test. Simple URL – This post and video will demonstrate how to run a simple URL test to gauge performance of a website. If you’re new to load testing, this is the easiest test to run on RedLine13. JMeter – Apache JMeter is one of the most popular tools for load testing and scaling out your JMeter testRead More →

RedLine13 Services Partner KeenEthics

KeenEthics is a solution-oriented software engineering company, based in Ukraine and offices in the Netherlands. They have been successfully using RedLine13 for load testing their clients and now they have decided to officially become a partner. We welcome RedLine13 Services Partner KeenEthics. They describe their journey “desperately looking for a perfect testing service” and what they looked at and tried before choosing RedLine13‘s Open Architecture for building and running load tests. You can read more aboutRead More →