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BlazeMeter pros and cons

Vendor: Perforce
4.1 out of 5
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PROS

BlazeMeter enables users to simulate heavy load situations, allowing them to address performance issues proactively.
It simplifies and accelerates the load testing process with quick, effective recording features.
BlazeMeter's cloud capabilities support distributed load testing from global locations, eliminating the need for local infrastructure management.
The platform offers extensive support, documentation, and a strong community, ensuring ease in implementation and effective use.
Action groups within BlazeMeter facilitate efficient test management, allowing updates and maintenance to be centralized.

CONS

BlazeMeter suffers from slow performance when handling large test cases, leading to long loading times, which require improvement.
The integration with Application Performance Monitoring tools and CI/CD processes, especially with GitLab, needs enhancement.
BlazeMeter lacks sufficient scalability and granular access control, which hampers its usability across larger organizations requiring these features.
There is room for improvement in customized reporting and parameterization functionalities to allow for running scripts across different environments.
The pricing is considered high, and customer support is not available 24/7, impacting user satisfaction negatively.
 

BlazeMeter Pros review quotes

May 3, 2019
It has helped us simulate heavy load situations so we can fix performance issues ahead of time.
reviewer1090242 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Enterprise Architecture at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 12, 2019
BlazeMeter has allowed us to simplify and speed up our load testing process.
JC
QA Engineer at SSCGI
Apr 12, 2020
I really like the recording because when I use the JMeter the scripting a lot of recording it takes me a lot of time to get used to. The BlazeMeter the recording is quick.
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Anto Infanta - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Oct 5, 2020
They have good support documentation and when we have contacted them, they helped to guide us.
VK
AVP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jul 30, 2021
The stability is good.
VK
Associate QA Manager at Xcel Serv Solution
Sep 1, 2021
It supports any number of features and has a lot of tutorials.
SV
Senior Engineer at CIBER
Sep 17, 2021
The solution offers flexibility with its configurations.
GaneshMuralidharan - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Delivery Head at Vaisesika consulting
Mar 9, 2022
BlazeMeter can be used for both API and performance testing, it is a multi-facility tool.
SY
QA Automation Engineer with 201-500 employees
May 22, 2022
The feature that stands out the most is their action groups. They act like functions or methods and code, allowing us to reuse portions of our tests. That also means we have a single point for maintenance when updates are required. Instead of updating a hundred different test cases, we update one action group, and the test cases using that action group will update.
reviewer1511478 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Automation & Perform Lead (C) at Canadian Tire
Jul 15, 2022
Using cloud-based load generators is highly valuable to us, as we can test from outside our network and increase load generation without having to upscale our hardware as much. The cloud load generator is there when we need it and is the feature we leverage the most.
 

BlazeMeter Cons review quotes

May 3, 2019
My only complaint is about the technical support, where sometimes I found that they would not read into and understand the details of my question before answering it.
reviewer1090242 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Enterprise Architecture at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 12, 2019
A possible improvement could be the integration with APM tools.
JC
QA Engineer at SSCGI
Apr 12, 2020
In terms of improvement, I would like to have the ability to customize reports.
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Anto Infanta - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Oct 5, 2020
Having more options for customization would be helpful.
VK
AVP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jul 30, 2021
The should be some visibility into load testing. I'd like to capture items via snapshots.
VK
Associate QA Manager at Xcel Serv Solution
Sep 1, 2021
The reporting capabilities could be improved.
SV
Senior Engineer at CIBER
Sep 17, 2021
Lacks an option to include additional users during a test run.
GaneshMuralidharan - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Delivery Head at Vaisesika consulting
Mar 9, 2022
If the solution had better support and the documentation was efficient it would do better in the market.
SY
QA Automation Engineer with 201-500 employees
May 22, 2022
The performance could be better. When reviewing finished cases, it sometimes takes a while for BlazeMeter to load. That has improved recently, but it's still a problem with unusually large test cases. The same goes for editing test cases. When editing test cases, it starts to take a long time to open those action groups and stuff.
reviewer1511478 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Automation & Perform Lead (C) at Canadian Tire
Jul 15, 2022
We encountered some minor bugs, and I would like to have the ability to add load generators to workspaces without having to use APIs. We can't do that now, so we're beholden to the APIs.