OctoPerf 11.9 - Azure on demand, new JMeter, setup/teardown threadgroups and more
Here we are for yet another new release of OctoPerf. We've actually released two minor versions since the last update post, but this time we will also release a long awaited feature, Microsoft Azure on demand load generators!
We kept it in our beta version for a while since we wanted to be absolutely sure it can be used for proper testing. We are quite satisfied with it at the moment, but note that the agent startup time is much longer on azure than on other providers, you should expect to wait a few more minutes if you are using it.
Of course we also have other new and exciting features to share, so let's dive into it.
Improvements
Azure load generators
As stated in the introduction, you can now select Azure load generators from the locations
tab of your runtime profile. This opens up a lot of new locations and will help you test your applications under even more realistic conditions than before.
Of course it comes with all the usual features like retry on agent startup failed and load generator monitoring live during the test.