Awesome JMeter – Massive Collection of Resources

Apache JMeter is open source, pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance.

Contents

• Official Resources
• Distributions
• Getting Started
• Tutorials
• Best Practices
• Scripting
• Automation
  • DSL
  • Packages
  • Frameworks
  • Conversion
• CI
  • Tools & Plugins
  • Tutorials & Demo
• Distributed Testing
• Cloud Services / SaaS
• Results Processing
  • Results Analysis
  • Results Visualisation
• Performance Testing
  • Streaming Protocols
  • Mobile Apps
  • Mainframe Environments
  • RPC Frameworks
  • RESTful API
• Tools
  • Plugins
  • Correlation
  • Extending JMeter
  • IDE Integration
  • Editors
• APM Integration
• JMeter Performance
• Tips & Tricks
• Books
• Trainings & Courses
• Videos
• Community
  • Blogs
  • Forums
  • Twitter
  • Q&A

Official Resources

• Apache JMeter Project – Apache JMeter official website.
• GitHub Repository – Apache JMeter source code repository.
• JMeter Wiki – Apache JMeter official documentation.
• Issue Tracking – Apache JMeter issue tracking system.
• Mailing Lists – Apache JMeter mailing lists.

Distributions

• Download Apache JMeter – Apache JMeter: Official downloads.
• JMeter for Windows – Package for installation JMeter with plugins.
• JMeter Bootstrap – Solution to setup JMeter and JMeter plugins, suitable to be used as a submodule.

Getting Started

• Getting Started with Apache JMeter
• A Simple Load Test with JMeter
• The Beginner’s Guide to Performance Testing with Apache JMeter

Tutorials

• JMeter Tutorial – By ArtOfTesting.
• Load Testing your Applications with Apache JMeter – By Keld H. Hansen.
• Load Testing with JMeter – By Brandon Konkle.
• JMeter Resources – By Dejan Lukan.
• JMeter Tutorial – By Tutorials Point.
• JMeter Tutorial for Load Testing: The Ultimate Guide – By Daniel Gutierrez Diez.
• JMeter: Load Development LifeCycle – By DataCadamia.
• Load Testing with Apache JMeter – By DigitalOcean.
• JMeter Tutorial for Beginners – By Guru99.

Best Practices

• JMeter Official Best Practices
• JMeter Best Practices
• Optimize JMeter for Large Scale Tests
• Concurrent, High Throughput Performance Testing with JMeter

Scripting

• Beanshell vs JSR223 vs Java JMeter Scripting – Most popular scripting mechanisms performance comparison.
• Testing with Groovy – Using JMeter and Groovy for load testing.
• JMeter: забудьте про BeanShell Sampler – JMeter: forget about BeanShell Sampler 🇷🇺.

Automation

DSL

• Ruby-JMeter – A Ruby-based DSL for building JMeter test plans.
• jmeter-java-dsl – Simple API to run JMeter performance tests in an VCS and programmers friendly way.
• jmeter-groovy-dsl – The Groovy-JMeter project is simple DSL to write JMeter test plans.

Packages

• loadtest – An R package for load testing using JMeter.

Frameworks

• Taurus – Automation-friendly framework for Continuous Testing.
• Performance testing framework – Framework both for backend load testing with Apache JMeter and frontend load testing with sitespeed.io + webpagetest private instance.
• JMeter Load Testing Center – Online web-application/dashboard to run, monitor and analyze results of load tests using JMeter.

Conversion

• swaggerjmx – Tool to convert Swagger UI specification into JMeter test plans.

CI

Tools & Plugins

• JMeter Ant Task – Ant task to automate running JMeter test plans.
• JMeter Maven Plugin – Maven plugin that provides the ability to run JMeter tests as part of the build.
• JMeter Gradle Plugin – Gradle plugin to execute JMeter tests.
• Jenkins Performance Plugin – Jenkins plugin to capture reports from JMeter and generate graphic charts with the trend report of performance and robustness.
• TeamCity Performance Tests Analysis Plugin – TeamCity plugin to organize simplest performance testing in CI 💀.
• Bamboo JMeter Aggregator Plugin – Bamboo plugin to collect, assert and graph JMeter test results.
• Sonar JMeter Plugin – Plugin to collect JMeter performance tests results and display in Sonar dashboard 💀.
• Lightning – Framework to integrate JMeter non-functional tests with CI/CD server.
• Taurus JMeter Executor – JMeter Executor in Taurus automation framework.
• PerfAction for JMeter – GitHub Action to run performance tests using Apache JMeter and its plugins.

Tutorials & Demo

• Jenkins
  • Automated performance testing using JMeter and Maven
  • Performance Tests with JMeter, Maven and Hudson
  • CI with Jenkins, Git, Maven, Grunt, and JMeter
  • Continuous automated web tests using Jenkins and JMeter
  • Automating JMeter tests with Maven and Jenkins
  • How to automate JMeter tests with Maven and Jenkins:
    • part 1
    • part 2
  • JMeter Continuous Performance Testing (JMeter + Ant + Jenkins):
    • part 1
    • part 2
  • Continuous Integration 101: How to Run JMeter with Jenkins
• Bamboo
  • How to Run JMeter in a Continuous Integration Environment with Bamboo
• TeamCity
  • How to Run JMeter Tests with TeamCity for Continuous Integration
• CircleCI
  • How to integrate JMeter into CircleCI
• SonarQube
  • JMeter with Sonar

Distributed Testing

• JMeter Distributed Testing Step-by-step
• JMeter Remote Testing
• Setting up a JMeter Cluster for web server load testing
• Dockerized
  • Dockerized JMeter – Distributed load testing workflow with Docker and JMeter.
  • JMeter Docker Images
  • Distributed JMeter testing using Docker
  • A Docker solution to JMeter + InfluxDB + Grafana performance testing
  • AutoMeter – An automation tool for scaling load tests using distributed slaves, based on JMeter master-slave architecture.
• Testing in Cloud
  • Amazon Web Services
    • jmeter-ec2 – Automates running Apache JMeter on Amazon EC2.
    • gee – A modified version of JMeter-EC2 project.
    • os-jmeter-aws – Run JMeter on multiple AWS instances, view results in ELK.
    • Load Testing with JMeter and Amazon EC2
    • Performance Testing in the Cloud with JMeter & AWS
    • JMeter distributed testing with Amazon EC2
  • DigitalOcean
    • Lightweight JMeter Cloud – Building your own JMeter Cloud using DigitalOcean, JMeter and Docker.
  • Microsoft Azure
    • Load Testing Pipeline with JMeter, ACI and Terraform – Scalable cloud load/stress testing pipeline solution with Apache JMeter and Terraform to dynamically provision and destroy the required infrastructure on Azure.

Cloud Services / SaaS

List of cloud-based load testing services with support of JMeter test plans execution.

• CA BlazeMeter – Performance engineering platform with JMeter and Selenium support.
• OctoPerf – Saas and On-Premise Load Testing Tool with JMeter and Selenium support.
• Tricentis Flood – Load testing service with JMeter, Gatling and Selenium scenarios support.
• RedLine13 – AWS-based load testing service with JMeter, Gatling and Selenium scenarios support.
• LoadRunner Cloud – Micro Focus cloud-based solution for web and mobile performance testing with JMeter and Gatling support (formerly HP StormRunner Load).
• Loadster – Solution for distributes load testing of web applications and services.
• Loadium – AWS-based load testing service with JMeter and Selenium support.

Results Processing

• JMeter Report Dashboard – JMeter supports dashboard report generation to get graphs and statistics from a test plan.

Results Analysis

• JMeter Log Analysis – Suggestions and recipes for JMeter log analysis.
• Analyzing JMeter Results
• JMeter Result Analysis: The Ultimate Guide
• BlazeMeter Sense – Service for storing and analysing performance test results.
• JtlReporter – Online reporting application to generate reports by uploading JTL file.
• JAnalyser – Browser-based results analysis tool.
• JMeter Result Analysis Plugin – Maven plugin that parses JMeter test results and generates detailed reports with charts.
• JMeter Results Analyser – Web-based application for collating, analysing and reporting JMeter test results.
• DB Results Collectors
  • JMeter DBCollector Plugin – Plugin to enable results logging into a database for more effective reporting.
  • JMeter MySQLCollector Plugin – Patch to configure listener to log into MySQL database.
• JMeter SLA Report – JMeter HTML report generator based on JAMon.

Results Visualisation

• Graphite – TBD.
• InfluxDB & Grafana
  • Using JMeter with InfluxDB & Grafana – Collection of guides to collect and visualize real-time test-results and server monitoring stats using InfluxDB & Grafana.
  • How to Use Grafana to Monitor JMeter Non-GUI Results
  • jmeterReports – Autogenerated JMeter test-run results reported into Confluence, using Grafana custom dashboards 🇷🇺.
  • Grafana Dashboards
    • JMeter Load Test Dashboard – Grafana dashboard shows live load test metrics provided by JMeter (by NovaTec-APM).
    • JMeter Dashboard using Core InfluxdbBackendListenerClient – Monitor your Apache JMeter load test in real time with InfluxDB and Grafana (by Philippe M).
    • JMeter Dashboard (3.2 and up) – Monitor JMeter load test in real time with InfluxDB and Grafana (by adrianbanu).
    • JMeter (via prometheus exporter) – A Grafana dashboard to inspect JMeter metrics via Prometheus exporter (by chiabre).
  • JMeter-InfluxBD-Writer Plugin – JMeter plugin to write load test data on-the-fly into InfluxDB.
  • JMeter Results to InfluxDB – Read JMeter results from csv file and put into InfluxDB database.
• ELK Stack
  • Using ELK – Using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana to visualize JMeter test results.
  • JMeter + ElasticSearch Live Monitoring – Using the ElasticSearch Backend listener and Grafana/Kibana to monitor results in realtime.
• Prometheus
  • jmeter-prometheus-plugin – A Prometheus Listener for Apache JMeter that exposes results in HTTP API.
• ClickHouse
  • JMeter Results from ClickHouse – Using the JMeter Listener pack, ClickHouse and Grafana to collect and monitor test results.
• Backend Listener Implementations
  • jmeter-elasticsearch-backend-listener – JMeter plugin to send test results to an ElasticSearch engine.
  • jmeter-backend-azure – JMeter plugin to send test results to Azure Application Insights.
  • jmeter-backend-listener-kafka – JMeter plugin to send test results to a Kafka server.
  • jmeter-listener – JMeter plugin to write load test data on-the-fly to ClickHouse, InfluxDB, ElasticSearch.
• Custom & Deprecated
  • Using Matplotlib & Python – Plotting JMeter load test results with Matplotlib plotting tool and Python.
  • Statistical Aggregate Report – Custom Statistical Aggregate Report listener for enhanced results visualization.
  • JChav – JMeter Chart History and Visualisation library.
  • JMeter Dashboard: howto, sources – Realtime monitoring of JMeter load test.
  • Using CMDRunner & Powershell – Create JMeter graphs with CMDRunner with powershell parallel execution.

Performance Testing

Streaming Protocols

• Easy and realistic Load Testing of HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) with Apache JMeter
• Using JMeter to Load Test Live HLS Concurrency of Wowza Streaming Engine
• Load testing HLS with Ruby JMeter
• Media Live Streaming Load Testing with JMeter – Collection of articles by BlazeMeter (HLS, RTMP, WS, podcasts, etc.).
• HLS JMeter Plugin

Mobile Apps

• Record iOS application HTTP requests
• Load Testing Mobile Apps Made Easy
• Performance Testing for Native Mobile Apps

Mainframe Environments

• JMeter RTE Plugin – JMeter RTE (Remote Terminal Emulator protocol) plugin for testing Mainframe applications.

RPC Frameworks

• JMeter gRPC Plugin – JMeter plugin supports load test gRPC.
• JMeter gRPC Request – JMeter gRPC Request load test plugin.
• JMeter Dubbo Plugin – JMeter plugin for Apache Dubbo.

RESTful API

• RESTful API testing with JMeter
• Rest API Testing with JMeter. Step by Step Guide

Tools

Plugins

• JMeter Plugins list – List of available plugins and extensions.
• JMeter Plugins – Independent set of plugins for Apache JMeter, with plugin manager references many plugins and simplifies installation.
• Ubik Load Pack – Productivity extensions for Apache JMeter.

Correlation

• Correlation Recorder Plugin – JMeter plugin that simplifies the process of recording for applications with Dynamic Variables by providing automatic correlations of variables at recording time.
• Siebel CRM Plugin – JMeter plugin to simplify the scripting of Siebel CRM applications by providing automatic correlations of variables at recording time ❄️.
• ULP Auto-correlator Plugin – Commercial plugin for Oracle and Vaadin-based applications from Ubik Load Pack.

Extending JMeter

• JMeter Developer Manual
• How to write a plugin for JMeter
• How to build a JMeter plugin utilising groovy
• How to create a plugin in JMeter
• Custom JMeter Samplers and Config Elements
• Implement Custom JMeter Samplers

IDE Integration

• Intellij IDEA IDE Plugin – Create run configurations and run JMeter tests from Intellij IDEA.
• JMeter + Eclipse HOWTO – Develop the JMeter project with Eclipse IDE.
• NetBeans JMeter Kit – JMeter integration module for NetBeans IDE.
• Using a Load Generator in NetBeans IDE

Editors

Alternative editors for JMX files, in addition to standard JMeter GUI and XML editors.

• BlocklyJMX Editor – A Web-based viewer and editor for JMeter test plan files (part of JMeter Plugins project).
• JMX Enhancer – A solution to expedite preparation of JMeter test plans.
• jmx.js – Web-based editor for JMeter JMX files 💀.

APM Integration

Integration with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools to analyze the performance of application servers, database servers, and web services.

• Servers Performance Monitoring Plugin – Server monitoring plugin from JMeter Plugins project.
• CA App Synthetic Monitor – Transaction monitoring & testing solution with JMeter support.
• Dynatrace
  • Dynatrace and JMeter integration
  • Integrate web API performance monitoring in JMeter
• JMeter integration with AppDynamics – APM & EUM solution with JMeter integration.
• Performance Remediation using New Relic and JMeter: part 1, part 2

JMeter Performance

• JMeter Performance – JMeter performance evolution across versions.
• JMeter Performance and Tuning Tips – By Ubik Ingenierie.
• JMeter Performance and Tuning Tips – By BlazeMeter.
• How to speed up JMeter: part 1, part 2

Tips & Tricks

• JMeter tips – JMeter tips and tricks scratchpad.

Books

• Apache JMeter: A Practical Beginner’s Guide to Automated Testing and Performance Measurement for Your Websites – By Emily H. Halili (Packt Publishing).
• Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9 – By Bayo Erinle (Packt Publishing); guide to test web applications using Apache JMeter with practical, hands-on examples.
• Performance Testing with JMeter, 2nd Edition – By Bayo Erinle (Packt Publishing).
• Performance Testing with JMeter 3, 3rd Edition – By Bayo Erinle (Packt Publishing).
• JMeter Cookbook – By Bayo Erinle (Packt Publishing); 70 insightful and practical recipes to help successfully use Apache JMeter.
• JMeter by Example – By Sai Matam and Jagdeep Jain (Leanpub); a simple, practical, step-by-step tutorial to measure the performance of websites.
• Pro Apache JMeter: Web Application Performance Testing – By Sai Matam and Jagdeep Jain (Apress).
• Master Apache JMeter: From load testing to DevOps – By Antonio Gomes Rodrigues, Bruno Demion (Milamber) and Philippe Mouawad (Leanpub, Packt Publishing).
• Maîtriser JMeter: Du Test de charge à Devops – By Antonio Gomes Rodrigues, Bruno Demion (Milamber) and Philippe Mouawad (Leanpub) 🇫🇷.
• Advanced JMeter Testing – By Penny Curich (Leanpub), guide to write custom components for Apache JMeter 5.0.

Trainings & Courses

• JMeter: Performance and Load Testing (Feb 2019) – By LinkedIn Learning.
• Advanced JMeter (Jul 2020) – By LinkedIn Learning.
• JMeter Training Courses – By NobleProg.
• BlazeMeter University – By BlazeMeter.
• JMeter Courses collection – By Udemy.
• JMeter Training Course – By ABSoft Trainings.
• Web Applications (and Mobile Apps) Performance Testing with JMeter – By Pragmatic Test Labs.
• Training courses on Load Testing with Apache JMeter – By Ubik Ingenierie.
• Apache JMeter Training – By QAInsights.
• JMeter Getting Started Course (Apr 2019) – By Pluralsight.

Videos

• JMeter Tutorials – By Automation Step by Step.
• Learn Apache JMeter Series – By QAInsights.
• JMeter / Devops/ CI-CD / Cloud – By xavki 🇫🇷.

Community

Blogs

• BlazeMeter Blog – BlazeMeter blog about JMeter and performance testing.
• Ubik Load Pack Blog – Ubik Ingenierie blog.
• TestAutomationGuru Blog – Technical blog on test automation.
• RedLine13 Blog – JMeter articles in RedLine13 blog.
• Flood.io Blog – Load testing thoughts, stories and ideas from Flood IO.
• JMeter Blog – Another blog for performance & automation testing using JMeter.
• OctoPerf Blog – OctoPerf blog about JMeter and load testing.
• Abstracta JMeter Archives – Abstracta blog about JMeter.
• JMeter Tips – Blog about Apache JMeter and performance testing of web applications 💀.
• JMeter Expert Blog – JMeterExpert blog 💀.
• JMeter Series – Sourcepole blog 💀.
• JMeter Basics – By João Farias.

Forums

• JMeter Google Group
• JMeterPlugins Google Group
• JMeter Nabble Forum
• JMeter SQAforums 💀
• JMeter – Тестирование производительности – Discussion board by Software-Testing.ru 🇷🇺.

Twitter

• @ApacheJMeter – Official Twitter account of the Apache JMeter load testing tool.
• @jmeter_plugins – Twitter account of custom plugins project for JMeter load testing tool.
• @BlazeMeter – Official Twitter account of Blazemeter, performance engineering platform for DevOps, based on JMeter.
• @masterjmeter – Official account of the Master Apache JMeter from Load Testing to DevOps book.
• @ubikloadpack – Twitter account of Ubik Load Pack, custom JMeter plugins for Video Streaming & complex protocols load testing.

Q&A

• jmeter on Stack Overflow
• jmeter on Gitter
• #jmeter on Slack
• r/jmeter on Reddit

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