BlazeMeter Reviews

The ability to scale JMeter tests easily. This isn't possible with traditional load testing approaches.

BlazeMeter allows us to easily run our existing load testing solutions at massive scale.

All of our consultants can use BlazeMeter. Traditionally our tests were run in JMeter and this was limited to technical users. BlazeMeter allows the use of the same tests but in a more user-friendly environment where all of our consultants can run the tests and access the results.

BlazeMeter is a cost effective way to scale our existing JMeter load tests.

Running of multi-tests could be improved to make it easier to create them. Apart from that nothing else springs to mind.

The application has been stable in most of our tests to date. We experience the odd bug, but BlazeMeter are quick to resolve any issues.

We have tested up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users and the system performed well.

Easy to use and effective.

Initial setup is very easy.

When selecting a vendor, I look at ease of use, support, product maturity, and their partner model.

BlazeMeter is a great solution to run your existing tests. You will need detailed knowledge of JMeter to get the most out of your testing and BlazeMeter offer comprehensive training if you are new to this.

• Easy to make small changes to the test without reconfiguration, so we could step increases in load and find the limits without risk in breaking the test scripts. Consistent testing allows for confidence in the results and ease of use by the team.
• Integration with New Relic - provides insight as to why the test had the results and how we can improve them. New Relic was already in our tool belt, so it was nice to not need to change to an unfamiliar tool.
  

Provided an easy to use tool to measure the performance of our most critical business application, along with the expertise of BlazeMeter to properly generate the test case.

It has allowed us to test the impact of vendor updates to their software on the performance of the web component, which we are now doing as updates get released (6 month release cycle, so only one retest thus far).

System Administrators are performing the testing, as the software isn't ours and we don't presently develop our own software this was a new need and we don't have anything to compare to other than anecdotal evidence from users. We were able to compare results post-testing by comparing Google Analytics data and found that the improvements we put into place as result of the testing did have positive effect on both pageload and generation timings along with improving the overall conversion rate for the tool as well.

It's a rather expensive tool for running just a few tests — which is our primary use case, if there was a pricing structure that met our use case price wouldn’t be of concern. Worth noting is that we requested they donate our use of the tool — and they did donate the tool for our use — so it did not cost us anything (which we are very thankful for as a nonprofit).

We encountered no stability issues in using it.

We encountered no scalability issues, though we were testing at relatively low volumes.

Any questions we had were addressed promptly by knowledgeable individuals.

We wanted a solution that was easy to interpret and wouldn't require custom tooling beyond building the test. JMeter was the right tool for the job, and BlazeMeter's expertise and easy to use interface allowed us to readily view and compare results without needing to build a custom workflow.

Creating the JMeter test case required some time on our part, partially due to JMeter not supporting JavaScript and the application we were testing requires JavaScript support. We were able to create a test to work around that limitation, but that's more due to BlazeMeter utilizing JMeter than it being a limitation of BlazeMeter as a platform.

Cost is critical as a non-profit, and they donated our access as noted prior. Functionality is also critical — and they had the function we needed, were easy to configure, and integrated with New Relic which saved us a lot of time.

The alternative was to use Open Source tools to analyze the results, this solution was selected as we felt it would be faster and easier than rolling a custom solution which just wasn't warranted for how simple our situation is.

It's free and easy to sign up and try, so give it a whirl and see if it meets your requirements. We found it met ours and more, helping us gain confidence from our customers and solve a nagging problem in the performance of a third-party application.