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UBIK Video Streaming Plugin

JMeter Video Streaming with UBIK Load Pack Video Steaming Plugin 6.2.5 Our friends at UBIK-Ingénierie have recently updated their video streaming plugin. Prior to the launch of the original plugin, there wasn’t really an easy or efficient means to test JMeter video streaming. So the UBIK team created the UBIK Load Pack Video Steaming Plugin as a means to do so. We have also integrated this plugin into core RedLine13 testing services, so you can now cloudRead More →

To provide finer grain control over what instances RedLine13 can start, stop, terminate we have added support for launching EC2 load agents with instance profiles. Advanced Topic This is an advanced topic and only supported for enterprise customers. You can read the AWS Blog Post on Restricting with IAM Policy and instance-profiles. To get started you must set up an instance profile, which is documented at “How to create IAM instance Profile“. Setting up Policy To use this feature youRead More →

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UBIK Load Pack Video Streaming Plugin 3.0.0 Our friends at UBIK-Ingénierie have recently updated their video streaming plugin. With the launch of version 3.0.0, UBIK has renamed the HLS Plugin to “UBIK Load Pack Video Streaming Plugin”. Prior to the launch of the original HLS plugin, there wasn’t really an easy or efficient means to test video streaming inside of Apache JMeter. So the UBIK team created the HLS Plugin as a means to do so. HLS, orRead More →

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We have updated the Overview Graphs by adding the ability to see the exact number of virtual users currently running at that time period. To support this change, we modified simple and custom languages tests to report when a user starts after the ramp up period: Now with our update, graphs will now give more accurate views of when a virtual user starts the test script:Read More →

EC2 Update

We’ve recently added EC2 region support for Ohio, and RedLine13 users now have access to even more servers on the East Coast of the United States. Amazon added the new server locations in Ohio in 2016, offering users more flexibility when it comes to EC2 instances. With this new addition, RedLine13 users can now run tests on servers in: Virginia (us-east-1) Ohio (us-east-2) California (us-west-1) Oregon (us-west-2) Ireland (eu-west-1) Frankfurt, Germany (eu-central-1) Sao Paolo, Brazil (sa-east-1)Read 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 →

  The Apache Software Foundation has updated JMeter to version 3.0 recently, and it was one of the largest updates the open source project has seen yet. This large update provides users with a host of new features, updates, bug fixes, and other improvements that make JMeter better than ever. RedLine13 fully supports Apache JMeter 3.0, and in case you missed the initial release notes, here’s what’s new in JMeter 3.0: 1. Updated UI and UX SimplerRead More →

We are pleased to announce that RedLine13 now supports Gatling version 2.2.X, scaled-out Gatling-Reports, and everything that it has to offer. We’ve made a few other updates and improvements to the RedLine13 and Gatling services that will make cloud load testing easier and cheaper for our users. Features and Updates include:  Added full support for Gatling 2.2.x See what’s new in Gatling 2.2 Additionally, we have removed support for Gatling 2.0.x Added Support for using Maven &Read More →

After hearing some feedback from our users, we have updated our UI to improve the overall RedLine13 experience. RedLine13 UI updates include: Improved graphs which are now aggregated from all load tests, and can be viewed in real-time Graphs are rendered when visible, speeding up initial page load The image output from WebDriver tests will load as they become visible on-screen Added a new loading animation for graphs You are now able to view a graph in full-screenRead More →

We upgraded our usage of AWS library 3.5.*, it has been a while since we have updated.  While updating we have put together a few other AWS friendly updates AWS Cross Account Roles Cross account roles is the preferred AWS mechanism for granting access to service providers.  This was feedback provided direct from AWS folks and per docs SaaS products should leverage Cross Account Roles to perform actions on behalf of customers RedLine13 Docs on setting it upRead More →