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Resources: https://aka.ms/MALT-resources
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- Welcome to the Azure Load Testing Ask Microsoft Anything! This live hour gives you the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback directly to the Azure Load Testing team. Please post any questions in a separate, new comment thread. To start introduce yourself below and tell us where you're logging in from!
- Hello, I am Stan from near San Jose, CA, USA. I am totally new to Azure load testing and my last related experience was about 10 years ago using a product named LoadRunner. How/where best to get started?
- Nagarjuna_V
Microsoft
Hi Stawsh, you can use the resources available here to get started - https://aka.ms/malt-resources. This is a collection of docs articles, product overview articles, blogposts, video tutorials etc.
krisnarayHello everyone, I am Krishnakumar, software engineer, working with Az Load testing team.- Hi All, I am Andrii from Poland - I`m Test Automation Architect in EY.
- As per our company guidelines, we need to create Load Test resources, load test setup and executions via Azure DevOps pipelines. And we were able to achieve it and run load tests using AzureLoadTest@1 tasks. Now we want to add App Components via pipeline and AzureLoadTest@1 task which is used to deploy the JMeter test to the Load Testing azure resource does not allow for configuration. We cannot use Azure Load Test REST API add or update components as we need to hand roll scripts around REST API. So is there any possibility for Microsoft to add this functionality add/update app components into Azure LoadTest task?
- Nikita_Nallamothu
Hi BinduPriya, thanks for the feedback. This is on our roadmap and we will prioritize it. Meanwhile you could configure this from the portal or REST API at the test level. This is a one time step, and the subsequent test runs would have the App Components configured.
- Is there a roadmap to support code-centric OSS Load testing tools: Locust, K6, or Gatling?
- Nagarjuna_VYes, it is on our roadmap, and we are exploring options to support tools like Locust, K6, Gatling etc. but we do not have an ETA currently.
prativenAndrii_Skrypnychenko Can you help share your share your experience with Az Load Testing if any. Also, any insights on what you are looking for to fit your testing strategy.
- When configuring the load, you create more test engines to increase the threads above 250. Are the engines created in parallel or are they created one after the other? How do the multiple engines affect the ramp up time for the users? Do you have to increase the time in the JMeter script each time you want to increase the engine instances count?
Nitin_JoyHi Joby_Jennings, all engine instances for a given load test run are created and configured in parallel. You wouldn't need to increase the test duration based on the number of engines, the test duration timer will be started only after all engines have started the test run.
Your JMeter script executes within the context of a single engine. So the ramp-up schedule is replicated for each engine.
To keep the overall ramp-up schedule the same, you'd need to factor in the number of VUsers that are being ramped up in accordance with the number of engines. You may also parameterize this field in the JMeter script to read from environment variables, so you wouldn't need to re-upload the script every time you need to change the number of engines and keep the ramp-up schedule the same.
You can find more information about parameterizing JMeter script here - Parameterize load tests with secrets and environment variables - Azure Load Testing | Microsoft Learn
Hello! In addition to the above speakers (which has a limit of five to list), we also have prativen and Purva_Baradia joining us from the Azure Load Testing team. Looking forward to seeing you all in about 30 minutes!
- I saw a price tag for over 9000 euro's a month for Load Testing Resource for West Europe. Would that be the actual price you plan on charging for this?
- Nikita_Nallamothu
Jung_Lee Below is the pricing for Azure Load Testing. The price for Load Testing Resource is 9.225 Euros per month. You can also login to the pricing calculator to check the exact price for your scenario: https://aka.ms/malt-pricingcalc.
- We've tried to set up Azure Load Testing with suite of JMeter tests that run just fine locally against our test environment. Our test environment sits behind SAML authentication. How do we bypass the SAML auth, without allow public access to our test environment? When we run the JMeter tests as part of Azure Load Testing, every request hits the SAML auth page, thus rendering the results useless.
- For context, in UK South you can't attach a private endpoint (when we tried this in October last year). Has this been resolved? We have to be in UK South. We can't use peering. We did deploy an Azure Load Testing instance in North Europe with private endpoints attached, but couldn't access the UK South services that we wanted to load test through VNet peering.
- Nagarjuna_VHi HaraldG running load tests against private endpoints is now supported in UK South as well. Private endpoints are currently supported in these regions - Australia East, East US, East US 2, North Europe, South Central US, UK South, and West US 2.
