Configure JMeter Thread Counts

A very common practice in JMeter is to make the number of threads per server configurable by passing in as a parameter to your thread group. We recently received a question from RedLine13 customer University of California about this. Sundar Thiru, Manager of Performance and Automation Testing, asked how to configure JMeter thread counts per test in RedLine13. You simply launch this in RedLine13 and use Advanced JMeter Options to pass in your settings at runtime.Read More →

load testing memory usage

Here are some customer questions and our answers about load testing memory usage and other topics. Load Testing Memory Usage Question: Can someone assist me to double check my Memory usage on this test? In “Free Memory” how do I check if we are running out of memory in our test? Do we follow the rule of 75% Threshold? Do we have a way to clean this list of tests (check image below) without deleting it?Read More →

Application load testing for API endpoints can be done quite easily. You could even do this to compare different API platforms that you’re considering using. That’s what we’ll do here with a real case. Zip Code API’s have become very popular because of the data they can provide easily and inexpensively. For example, one API when passed a zip code returns the city, state, latitude, longitude, time zone and more. Another will return all zip codesRead More →

load testing q&a with RedLine13 customer ON24

This is a load testing Q&A we did with RedLine13 Customer ON24. ON24, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that markets products and services based upon webcasting and virtual event and environment technology. ON24 is a privately held company whose primary venture capital investors are Goldman Sachs, Gold Hill Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, Canaan Partners and Rho Ventures. Christian Nguyen is the Load Test Engineer for ON24.  Load Testing Q&A RedLine13: You just renewed your RedLine13Read More →

AWS and continuous load testing costs

We always talk about how inexpensive it is to load test with RedLine13 and AWS. Still, users are concerned and ask us what AWS will cost them. So here’s a real customer who runs high volume testing, what’s referred to as Continuous Load Testing. Let’s see how much their AWS Continuous Load Testing costs are. Jay Holland is the Director of QA and DevOps at Precision Sample, LLC, a market research company leading the way amongRead More →

The CEO of njuko, a company that has been using the free version of RedLine13, told one of our RedLine13 founders that he wanted to say how he used RedLine13 for his company and to thank us.  Our founder responded that you might want to become a customer if you want to thank us. njuko offers a ready to use, online registration solution to manage running, cycling, triathlon or swimming events. Pierre Duvelleroy, founder of njuko:Read More →

Load Testing Troubleshooting

Anyone who has done load testing knows it’s a lot more than creating a script and running it. There are going to be times when it requires what we call ‘Advanced Load Testing Troubleshooting’. Here is a real case of a RedLine13 customer who was trying to figure out what was causing an unusual load testing graph result. The issue was the graph Percentiles per Page Response Time graph. But sometimes the problem we see isRead 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 →

RedLine13 Soak Testing for Customer Sure Petcare

Animal intelligence meets the world of pets. Here’s how an international corporation turned to RedLine13 for soak testing of their global pet monitoring system to mitigate DDoS attacks. Sure Petcare, part of Antelliq, the World’s Leading Animal Intelligence Group, developed a system where a pet owner periodically sends information about his pet’s activity and the server processes this information asynchronously. They provide pet owners with smart devices and data that give them a better understanding ofRead More →