I need to add a number of successful requests per second into the JMeter output which is printed to stdout.
I checked summariser settings in .properties file, but it seems it does not allow to add a new property to the output.
I am also thinking about defining a listener which outputs to stdout (if possible) and where I would add the success rate column, but not sure how to provide it with the least effort.
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Update - Deleting the Aggregate report and rerunning the test now gives an error rate of 0. Why is this required?
I am using JMeter 4.0 to hit a REST web service with 20 thread groups by sending a POST request with a JSON body. All 20 requests succeed and give proper response (200 with a correct JSON body). Why is the error rate above 99%? (See image below). Also, why is no of samples is 10063 in report even though View Results Tree tab shows 20 HTTP requests (each with error count 0).
If you run JMeter test which assumes 20 HTTP Request and seeing > 10 000 in the listener - most probably you are opening an incorrect .jtl results file in the listener.
Double check that "Filename" input field is empty
Prior to running a new test make sure to clean "in-memory" results by choosing Run -> Clear All from JMeter's main menu (or click Control+E)
Be aware that using Listeners is a some form of a performance anti-pattern, they don't add any value but consume valuable system resources which can be either used for something else or left intact to save the trees. So:
Remove all the listeners from the test plan
Run your test in command-line non-GUI mode like:
jmeter -n -t test.jmx -l result.jtl
When your test is finished either open JMeter GUI and inspect the result.jtl file with the listener of your choice (you can load it using aforementioned "Filename" tab)
Or generate an HTML Reporting Dashboard out of the result.jtl file - it will contain statistical information, tables and charts outlining your test results.
View Results Tree since few versions only keep last 500 SampleResult and only refreshes every few seconds.
So the number of samples in view results tree is not the total.
Besides, you should never run a load test in GUI mode as it impacts negatively performances of Jmeter injection.
see this for best practices :
https://www.ubik-ingenierie.com/blog/jmeter_performance_tuning_tips/
I have a JMeter test that is invoking an API (send API) in an asynchronous manner. The result of the invocation is then available via the other API call (results API). When I consume results, I do have a metrics about several phases of processing in the JSON response, which I would like to push into the resulting JMeter report.
I would like to get averages for that data, not just average times on the overall end-to-end test.
Is it something that can be implemented in JMeter?
Injecting custom fields into .jtl results file can be done using sample_variables property
Given you have 2 JMeter Variables, i.e. foo and bar you can "tell" JMeter to add them to the results file by either adding next line to user.properties file
sample_variables=foo,bar
or passing the values via -J command-line argument like:
jmeter -Jsample_variables=foo,bar -n -t test.jmx -l result.jtl
Once your test finishes you will see 2 extra columns in the .jtl results file holding the values for foo and bar JMeter Variables, hopefully getting average for this data will not be a problem.
References:
Configuring JMeter
Apache JMeter Properties Customization Guide
This is a job for the Summary Report:
The summary report creates a table row for each differently named request in your test. This is similar to the Aggregate Report , except that it uses less memory
See example:
Average: It is the average time taken by all the samples to execute specific label. In our case, average time for Label 1 is 942 milliseconds & total average time is 584 milliseconds.
I have a jmeter test plan that is composed of a single threadgroup a number of custom java request samplers as children of the thread group and an aggregation listener.
The aggregation listener is writing to a file which includes a row for each invocation of each one of the java samplers. However it is not performing or writing any aggregations.
The default summary however is being produced and written to the log and that contains the aggregated requests/per second etc that I would expect from the aggregation listener.
Can anyone tell me how to either :a) Get the aggregation listener to produce aggregations rather than just a csv file containing rows with the results of each java sampler request? b) Redirect the output of the default test summary to another file?
Don't use listeners as they don't add any value, they just create memory and disk IO overhead. You should be running your JMeter test in command-line non-GUI mode telling JMeter to store the results in a file using -l command-line argument like:
jmeter -n -t test.jmx -l results.jtl
Once your test is done you should be able to open results.jtl file with the listener of your choice and see the results and export them into a file if needed. See Greedy Listeners - Memory Leeches of Performance Testing guide for detailed explanation regarding why you should not be using JMeter Listeners for anything but tests development and/or debugging
If you need to generate the Aggregate Report in unattended manner without interim manual step you will need JMeterPluginsCMD Command Line Tool, using it you will be able to generate different tables and charts from the .jtl results files
For the moment you have only 2 options of storing summariser output: [stdout] (console)5 and jmeter.log file. You can play with JMeter log4j configuration to choose what you want to store there.
To get summarized results add to your test plan Generate Summary Results:
Generates a summary of the test run so far to the log file and/or standard output
Update interval in jmeter.properties to your needs
# interval between summaries (in seconds) default 3 minutes
#summariser.interval=30
When I run the test in GUI, i see the Average, Min, Max in GUI. But when I run in console, is there a way to add these to the csv file?
These values are being calculated so you will be able to see the values only when you open .jtl results file after test finishes in the listener of your choice, i.e. Aggregate Report or Summary Report.
If you want to see the interim statistics while your test is being executed you have the following choices:
JMeter Summarizer output. JMeter reports some numbers into stdout while your test is being running
You can get some extended information if you run your JMeter test using Taurus tool as a wrapper
Both console and web interface options are available, in order to see current test execution stats in browser start your test like:
bzt yourtest.jmx -report
And finally you can use Backend Listener to send your results into database, message queue or web service and use custom plotting application to print out either raw or parsed statistics, here you are limited only by your fantasy:
More information:
JMeter: Real Time Results
How to Use Grafana to Monitor JMeter Non-GUI Results
JMeter produces some basic fields/result_field. JMeter doesn't create everything you see in different types of Listeners.
You can give this a try.
Create a plan
Generate atleast 100 samples (As large amount of data is required for some listeners), using a single sampler (request)
Use as many Listeners as you want of different types (say 15 types of listeners)
Run the plan....
Now in the filename field of all the listeners give series of names of files like a1.jtl a2.jtl
and so on....
see the screen shot
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Now again run the plan. Go to the files and open them in some good editors like notepad++.
For your surprise you will find the same data in all the files irrespective of the type of listener generating the file.
Crux of the matter is : JMeter gathers only handful of information from the run, the rest information which is shown in different Listeners is COMPUTED by the JMeter.
So you can read the *.jtl file into any of the listener.
In JMeter, the new way since 3.0 to have results is to use the Web report generated at end of test:
http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/generating-dashboard.html
I do the same scenario that was already described in other topics not at once: I'm trying to save Jmeter results to database from csv file.
I have an Aggregate Report listener that saves results to csv file, and everything is OK here.
I also added TearDown Thread Group to my scenario that gets strings from this csv file (by CSV DataSet config) and processes it to database. This part also works fine with static CSV.
Two problems here:
Aggregate Report listener is added on the top level of scenario. So, it adds all samplers from TearDown group to results file as well. So, it's like a recursion: if I do teardown until end of result file, I'll never reach the end, as every new iteration adds some new rows.
At the moment when CSV dataset config takes csv file, it's still in memory only and not finalized to disk. So, file is just empty. How to tell Jmeter that it should write the content from memory to a file and close input stream?
Any ideas how to solve it?
I know that I can move Listener into threads, but in this case I have to duplicate it for every thread group. It's always better to have one listener in one place as I can potentially change its settings.
Thanks in advance.
There is a JMeter Property jmeter.save.saveservice.autoflush defaulting to false
# AutoFlush on each line written in XML or CSV output
# Setting this to true will result in less test results data loss in case of Crash
# but with impact on performances, particularly for intensive tests (low or no pauses)
# Since JMeter 2.10, this is false by default
#jmeter.save.saveservice.autoflush=false
You can amend its value by setting it to true so JMeter will write down each single line of results into the file and closing the file once done. It can be done in 2 ways:
Permanent: add the following line to user.properties file (located in JMeter's "bin" folder)
jmeter.save.saveservice.autoflush=true
You will need to restart JMeter to pick the change up
Ad-hoc: pass the property via -J command-line argument
jmeter -Jjmeter.save.saveservice.autoflush=true -n -t .....