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OctoPerf built-in monitoring

At the root of the OctoPerf project is the will to provide realistic load testing. We continue to take steps to improve the JMeter experience and make it accessible. But there's a limit to what pure performance testing can achieve.

To push this limit it is vital to assess what happens on the hardware during the tests.

More realism

Of course, a realistic test must reproduce the users expected behavior, but that's not all. Once your test is running you need to know what is happening to your servers if you want to fix bottlenecks. This is something that always bothered us when launching only the load from OctoPerf.

Server Monitoring

Sometimes a feature changes everything.

Over the past year, you have been numerous to try OctoPerf, to use it for your testing projects and to share about it. We want to thank you for your amazing support! Your confidence has given us the energy to grow and to develop new features.

Today, we are proud to announce you we released a major functionality for your tests: The server monitoring.

Infrastructure Monitoring

We're proud to introduce brand new analysis metrics. Load generators monitoring has been asked frequently and we felt like it was something crucial missing in load testing reports. By providing monitoring metrics for every load generator during the load test, you can quickly get an overview of all load generators health.

Although we take care of the infrastructure, these information are important to the performance tester: he can quickly pinpoint if a slow down is due to its infrastructure or due to a load generator being overhelmed. These metrics are crucial for us to further tune the capacity of the machines being launched.

The following hardware usage metrics are available.

  • CPU Usage (%): cpu usage per machine in percent,
  • Memory Usage (%): RAM usage per machine in percent.

The following network metrics are available:

  • Network received (Bytes): incoming network traffic,
  • Network sent (Bytes): outgoing network traffic,
  • TCP Connections Established: number of active TCP connections, typically grows with number of active users,
  • TCP Segment Retransmits: TCP segments being retransmitted due to network issues.

Those metrics will greatly help to understand if load generators or the tested infrastructure have reached a bottleneck.

Browser-based Load Testing

We are proud to announce that we now support running real browser load testing alongside with regular HTTP load testing. We have integrated the JMeter Selenium WebDriver to our platform. It's now possible to run JMeter load tests as well as Selenium webdriver tests simultaneously. Collect both network metrics like response time and end-use experience metrics like browser load time.

Octoperf removes the pain of load testing your app with Selenium with our Saas integration. We setup and launch properly configured machines for you, with pre-configured latest Firefox web browser.

How it works

The following diagram sums up how Selenium drives any existing web-browser.

Selenium Architecture

What we did these last two weeks

It's been a busy couple of weeks but we keep doing our best to get new features in OctoPerf.

We have worked on two topics:

  • Ease of use
  • Implementing feedbacks

User experience

Some of you probably noticed but we are working to improve the first experience with OctoPerf. At first with video tutorials which show all the features: Tutorial