Key Performance Metrics By @GrabnerAndi | @DevOpsSummit [#APM #DevOps]

Whether it is JMeter, SoapUI, Load Runner, SilkTest, Neotys or one of the cloud-based load testing solutions such as Keynote, Dynatrace (formerly Gomez) or others, breaking an application under heavy load is easy these days. Finding the problem based on automatically generated load testing reports is not. Can you tell me what is wrong based on the following reports? I’ve helped engineering organizations over the last 10 – 15 years to either run or analyze load tests. In this blog post I share my best practices and metrics I typically look when analyzing load testing results. I am not relying on the out-of-the box load testing reports, but instead I extend them based on the tools and capabilities, or put in an APM tool such as Dynatrace to capture this type of data while the load testing tool drives the load.

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