ITRex Chose RedLine13

ITRex is a software development and consulting company that “creates and transforms products and enterprises to drive growth.” They wrote a blog post: Why ITRex chose RedLine13 as the primary load testing tool. Their post walks through the advantages and then gives some examples of ITRex customers. One customer was an e-commerce platform owner, struggling with their response time and downtimes, so their bounce rates went up and sales decreased. They used RedLine13 to run JMeterRead More →

People know that RedLine13 will save them money compared to other load testing platforms. It’s easy to think that if it costs so little, can RedLine13 support be any good? Because when you need support, you want to get good answers. We heard such positive news from RedLine13 customers at the RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board call who raved about the support they’ve received. So we thought we should let everyone know with a couple of examplesRead More →

LoadRunner Alternative

The University of California had been using LoadRunner for years when they decided they needed to reduce cost. Anu Manerkar spoke about needing a LoadRunner alternative and selecting RedLine13 at the RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting Moving from LoadRunner to RedLine13 was really good, much more than what we expected. Anu Manerikar, University of California Office of the President Her talk can be found in the RedLine13 YouTube Channel. She specifically made a point about theRead More →

JMeter has become the industry standard for load testing. If you don’t know, JMeter is an Apache project used as a load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of various services, with a focus on web applications. This post will talk about some very different companies and their efforts to scale their JMeter tests. If you are running JMeter locally and need to simulate many concurrent users, there are limitations on the number ofRead More →

BlazeMeter vs. RedLine13

We keep hearing from companies that have left BlazeMeter. They’ve told us how expensive BlazeMeter became. And they were tired of paying so much more than they used to.  We’ve heard from former BlazeMeter customers, big and small. They said one of the following: BlazeMeter was simply too expensive BlazeMeter got expensive and they didn’t understand why BlazeMeter was going to get expensive and there was nothing they could do And there were also companies whoRead More →

RedLine13 Team Features

A team account is included in a RedLine13 Premium Subscription and includes multiple RedLine13 Team Features. Sharing your test plan to all members of your team is automatic. Team management allows the sharing of tests and test data between a group of users. Team Feature Request from ACT  Heath Meyer is the Lead Software Engineer of RedLine13 customer ACT, the maker of the ACT college entrance exams. He asked us if it would be possible toRead More →

RedLine13 for Load Testing was launched by three guys who needed load testing for a site they were building and realized that there had to be a better solution than the existing high priced load testing tools. Now RedLine13 is hiring. We have an opportunity for someone who likes to work independently, learn new technologies and write great code. RedLine13 provides a free and low fixed cost service that helps companies set up and deploy load testingRead More →

RedLine13 was built for JMeter Cloud Load Testing. That gives you several advantages. This allows you to scale your JMeter tests to any size. It works with Apache JMeter and other open source platforms and plugins. And you can easily make testing part of your CI/CD environment with Jenkins and other platforms. Background Before the cloud, testing was very expensive to run. The costs associated with running and maintaining the hardware needed for performance tests wereRead More →

Load Testing Online with RedLine13

Knowing your website capacity is essential for your online business. You can do your load testing online with RedLine13. Deliver high performance websites, apps and APIs faster. RedLine13 is a load testing platform that brings the low cost power of the cloud to JMeter and other open source load testing tools. Run tests with 5,000,000 interactions and 500,000 users and more with unlimited scaling in the cloud. Test all of your apps, from web and mobile apps to microservicesRead More →

Basic Users get new High Limits and Premium Users get Unlimited Load Testing Every AWS server has a virtual CPU count. For example, an m5.xlarge instance type has four virtual CPUs in total. See AWS EC2 for details.  We are putting in new high limits related to the value of the services we provide from free subscriptions to unlimited load testing for premium users: Free RedLine13 subscriptions will have a limit of 10 vCPUs per test.Read More →