Introducing Azure Load Testing | Azure Friday

John Stallo joins Scott Hanselman to introduce Azure’s new, fully managed load testing service that enables developers and testers to generate high-scale load and gain actionable insights to catch performance bottlenecks at scale.

00:00 – Introduction
03:07 – Getting Started with Azure Load Testing
05:43 – Running a load test
08:54 – How did the application components behave?
15:00 – Wrap-up

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[J-]

Just started looking at Azure Load Testing after moving our application into an Azure environment. Great video, thanks!

[TysonBensonThest]

I've used Azure Load Testing recently, it was a pretty straightforward, turnkey type experience. Combined with a browser extension to help construct a JMeter test based on my browser interactions, it was a very fast way to get some quality information about how the application stands up to load.

A bit of feedback, I found that the web UI started to get a bit slow when the number of request in the JMeter script got into the dozens. For context, I configured a test that performance tested a user hitting multiple pages in my site, and simulating the load for every endpoint that was called (excluding cached requests for subsequent pages loaded).

The test made approximately 100 requests. I'm guessing that the data for every request might have been returned to the UI even though the graphs probably couldn't process/display all of the data. Aside from some UI optimisation it's a really good service that simplifies the process of getting started with performance tests.

I see the value and strength of this service in enabling discrete, targeted tests run as part of a CI/CD pipeline, plus the flexibility of enabling exploratory testing by engineers that do not necessarily specialise in JMeter or performance testing.

[nitro-boy]

Awesome! create a quick load test with just a few clicks ;)

[DavInBritain]

Awesome video, thanks! Very informative 👏🏻

[saurabhsrivastav]

Hi Thanks for the video on Azure load test. You have uploaded the JMX file and completed the test. I have developed a framework with jmeter using bat scripting which has multiple VUs test like 100, 300, 500 1000VUs and lots of CSV test data.
1. Can I use multiple JMX files and run them one after the other in Azure load test?
2. How can we use the files like CSV or any other files like picture for multipart form data in Azure load test?
3. Can we see the HTML reports for the individual response time like in Jmeter HTML report?

I have pulled all these metrics on Azure dashboard and can see all these metrics. When compared to Azure dashboard, what is more use of Azure load test? As both metrics are almost same.

[a.d.a.m.o.n]

It's cool but what about components of my App Service? For example if it uses OpenAI, how to load test it properly? Is there some "mocked" OpenAI models available for load testing? I can't test app with real connection to OpenAI it is too expensive

[alexk]

Skip to 3:16. You are welcome. Great demo!

[devopslp]

Thanks for the good demo. Is just jMeter supported or is there any plan for other test frameworks? Currently it have to competes with k6.

[SmartCat...]

Hi, Very interesting Video, TNX! Questions, how do I use the Data files with JMX script Azure Load? Another word should it be uploaded in to special directory? Also how about specific controls ( *jar files) how Azure Load will handle it ? What about setting execution of loads on schedules? TNX!

[DewaldFortier]

Looks really good, will you be looking to support Gatling in the future ?

[vybhaveswaraiah]

The is really fantastic. I am really excited to work on it going ahead should I get a chance. I simply love doing Performance Testing ☺️