Load Test Results

RedLine13 returns all of the test results as graphs after a user runs a load test. There are different sections on the results page. It is a critical process to interpret and analyze the load test results. The load test results are organized like this. Load Test Results Summary Details Test Servers Output Files Metric Sections Percentiles Overview metrics JMeter Threads Per Second Average JMeter Thread Elapsed Time Request Table and Filter Request metrics Request PerRead More →

Run your first RedLine13 Load Test

This tutorial describes how to run your first RedLine13 load test in minutes. Begin by logging into or creating your account, hit “Start Test”, and then click the “Simple Test” tab.  Next, begin to enter the parameters of your load test. In this example we will have 10 virtual users access StackOverflow. We have a 3 second ramp-up-time, a minimum delay of 500 ms, and a maximum delay of 10,000 ms: Below is a description ofRead More →

Here are some questions we’ve received on a common topic: how to whitelist IP addresses for load testing. Q: We are using the Redline13 Basic Subscription for load testing and would like to know the Public IP’s that we need to whitelist for the test to be successful. A: It sounds like your application is behind a whitelist and you need the load agents to be able to connect to it.  The simplest way is toRead More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

JMeter is an excellent open source load testing tool used by thousands of developers. If you want to scale your tests you have some options. You can do it yourself. Or you can scale out your JMeter test on the cloud with RedLine13. JMeter Load Testing – Do It Yourself Scaling JMeter beyond 500-1000 users increases complexity and setup time. Additionally, JMeter reports are usually displayed at the end of the test and only exist locally. There’sRead More →

How to use BeanShell Sampler to Load Test with Unique Users This guest post is courtesy of Mustafa Mahir Kaplancı of Etiya. A potential problem with automated load testing is when the system requires unique users to log in. Let’s imagine you would like to run a 5k virtual user test. And you’ve determined that you should use 10 AWS instance. In addition to the JMeter script you will also need to have one CSV file whichRead More →

RedLine13 + Testing Diaries Webinar

We conducted our first-ever webinar on August 25th with Maharshi Shah from Testing Diaries, and we wanted to recap and share the recording of the webinar for our users in case anyone missed out. For the first webinar titled “Getting Started With Performance Testing”, we discuss a range of topics that are valuable to those that are just starting out with performance tests. Provided in this post is a recording of the webinar, and in itRead More →

Installing and using RedLine13 load testing plugins is a fairly easy and straightforward process that we will go over in this post. After you have already signed up and created a RedLine13 account, simply log in to get started. Once you have logged in, click the “Account” tab and then “Your Plugins”. We will then find ourselves at the Plugin Manager page. Here we can create and manage our various load testing plugins. To install a plugin, simply click theRead More →

RedLine is great for running long duration tests. In addition to being incredibly cheap, it is also easy. We give you two ways to set long duration tests. You can do the simple ping test by setting the # of Iterations parameter as seen in this example:   The above test 100 users will randomly ping the URL between 0 and 20 seconds (20,000 milliseconds) – so about 5 requests per second. We have set theRead More →

When running a load test, make sure that your Load Agents are properly sized. We do an automatic “guesstimate” of the number of clients per load agent based on the size of the instance and previous experience. But since every test is different, you need to take a look at the graph at the very bottom of the page to see how the CPU utilization is doing. Here is an example of 25 load agents andRead More →