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 →

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 →

New Summary Metrics and Graph Updates

In a recent update we have added a few new calculated metrics to the summary section of load test results. These include a simple average of requests per second, errors per second, and data set per unit time. This request came from one of our users. We hope you will find it useful that we have calculated these data points in advance, as they are commonly used in final reports. Here is a preview of howRead More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

Be the first to load test with JMeter 5.3. Check out what’s new in Apache JMeter 5.3. That means you can now load test with all of the JMeter 5.3 capabilities. JMeter Versions Supported 2.13 3.1 3.3 4.0 5.0 5.2 5.2.1 5.3 Nightly JMeter Nightly Have you seen that Apache JMeter also supports Nightly builds for developers? RedLine13 support Nightly, meaning one could be adventurous. Try RedLine13 for Free and Load Test with JMeter 5.3 Try your own test,Read 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 →