jmeter-backend-azure

A JMeter plug-in that enables you to send test results to Azure Application Insights.

Overview

Description

JMeter Backend Azure is a JMeter plugin enabling you to send test results to an Azure Application Insights.

The following test results metrics are exposed by the plugin.

• TestStartTime
• SampleStartTime
• SampleEndTime
• ResponseCode
• Duration
• URL
• SampleLabel
• SampleCount
• ErrorCount
• Bytes
• SentBytes
• ConnectTime
• IdleTime
• ThreadName
• GrpThreads
• AllThreads

Plugin installation

Once you have built or downloaded the plugin JAR file from the releases section, move the JAR to your $JMETER_HOME/lib/ext.

mv target/jmeter.backendlistener.azure-VERSION.jar $JMETER_HOME/lib/ext/

Then, restart JMeter and the plugin should be loaded.

JMeter configuration

To make JMeter send test result metrics to Azure Application Insights, in your Test Pan, right click on Thread Group > Add > Listener > Backend Listener, and choose io.github.adrianmo.jmeter.backendlistener.azure.AzureBackendClient as Backend Listener Implementation. Then, specify the test name and the Application Insights instrumentation key as a parameter as shown in image below.

Visualization

Test result metrics are available in the requests dimension of your Application Insights instance. In the image you can see an example of how you can visualize the duration of the requests made during your test run.

Contributing

Feel free to contribute by forking and making pull requests, or simply by suggesting ideas through the Issues section.

Build

You can make changes to the plugin and build your own JAR file to test changes. To build the artifact, execute below Maven command. Make sure JAVA_HOME is set properly.

mvn clean package

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This plugin is inspired in the Elasticsearch and Kafka backend listener plugins.