I am using jmeter to load test a website. I have tested from 1 to 400 users. however while testing for above 500 users/threads, I am getting 401/unauthorized error for few users. Hope you'll help me to find out a solution to this problem.
I can think of 3 possible reasons:
There is a parameterization problem with your test, i.e. it sends wrong credentials, you can use i.e. Simple Data Writer configured to save requests and response data for failing requests and inspect it using View Results Tree listener.
JMeter gets overloaded and cannot properly perform correlation. In addition to point 1 check whether you're following JMeter Best Practices and ensure that JMeter has enough headroom to operate in terms of CPU, RAM, etc. using i.e. JMeter PerfMon Plugin
Your application gets overloaded and cannot handle 500+ users, check your application logs, resources usage, output of APM tools, etc.
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I am using jmeter to perform load testing on my dev cluster. I have used HTTP Authorization Manager and have passed baseurl, username, password etc. Now my thread group have:
Number of threads:100 ,
Ramp-up period: 1 and Loop Count:1
Now for the first 50-60 calls the authorization works as expected but later it starts failing by giving error as 403. can anyone please tell me how to fix this?
I am using jmeter 5.4.1
Is there any response data? Perhaps you are getting rate limited. I also noticed you are reading in variables from a CSV. Are you sure the data in each row is correct? If you are providing auth credentials through the CSV, an incorrect row could lead to a 403.
As a side note, JMeter 5.4.1 has a log4j vulnerability, you might want to upgrade it to the latest version.
If the problem occurs under the load I can think of 2 possible reasons:
Your application gets overloaded and cannot properly handle the requests. Check your application logs and resources usage (CPU, RAM, etc.)
JMeter gets overloaded and not being able to properly send the requests. You're violating several JMeter Best Practices in particular:
you're running JMeter in GUI mode, GUI is only for tests development and debugging, when it comes to execution you should be using command-line non-GUI mode
you're using Listeners, especially View Results Tree, they don't add any value and just consuming resources
you're not using the latest version of JMeter, current stable release is 5.4.3
I am new to performance testing. I have a task on measuring the web application performance. I need to find out which modules/calls are causing deadlock, timeout and memory issues.
Q1. How can I use JMeter to find out deadlock, memory and timeout issues? If I do the following steps, it is the right way to trace those issues?
create a test plan in JMeter, which contains multiple Thread Group.
In each thread group, it contains multiple HTTP requests and 200 or
more users plus infinite loop.
Monitor JMeter results and SQL
profiler for deadlock.
Q2. JMeter is the right tool for tracking those issues? Or, should I use browser based performance testing tool such as LoadNinja, LoadView?
Thanks
Bonnie
Q1 JMeter per se doesn't provide any toolchain to detect deadlock and memory issues, the HTTP Request sampler (or even better HTTP Request Defaults) provides possibility to set the timeouts, if the value is blank - it will default to operating system timeout or web server timeout, whatever comes the first
If you conduct some form of stress test, i.e. start with 1 virtual user and gradually increase the load at some point you will see that response time starts growing and number of requests per second starts decreasing. So it's the point of maximum system performance and after that the performance will be degrading.
To monitor application under test memory you can use JMeter PerfMon Plugin, it will allow you to state whether the lack of RAM is the cause of the performance issue
With regards to deadlocks, it should result in HTTP Request sampler failure (or timeout), JMeter won't give you the underlying reason, but it will give you the timestamp and you should be able to check what happened with your application/database at that moment.
Q2 well-behaved JMeter test must produce the same network footprint as a real browser, if your test plan is good enough the system under test shouldn't be able to distinguish whether it's being hit by JMeter or by a real user using the real browser. JMeter will not give you client-side performance metrics like page rendering time or JavaScript execution time as:
JMeter is not a browser, it works at protocol level. As far as web-services and remote services are concerned, JMeter looks like a browser (or rather, multiple browsers); however JMeter does not perform all the actions supported by browsers. In particular, JMeter does not execute the Javascript found in HTML pages. Nor does it render the HTML pages as a browser does (it's possible to view the response as HTML etc., but the timings are not included in any samples, and only one sample in one thread is ever displayed at a time).
I am testing a web application login page loading time with 300 thread users and ramp up period of 300 secs.Most of my samples return response code 200.But few of them return response code 400,503.
My goal is to just check the performance of the web application if 300 users start using it.
I am new to Jmeter and have basic knowledge of programming.
My Question :-
1.Can i ignore these errors and focus just on timings from the summary report ?
2.If i really need to fix these errors, how to fix it ?
There are 2 different problems indicated by these errors:
HTTP Status 400 stands for Bad Request - it means that you're sending malformed requests which cannot be understood by the server. You should inspect request details and amend JMeter configuration as it is the problem in your script.
HTTP Status 503 stands for Service Unavailable - it indicates the problem on server side, i.e. server is not capable of handling the load you're generating. This is something you can already report as the application issue. You can try to identify the underlying cause by:
looking into your application log files
checking whether your application has enough headroom to operate in terms of CPU, RAM, Network, Disk, etc. It can be done using APM tool or JMeter PerfMon Plugin
re-running your test with profiler tool telemetry to deep dive into what's under the hood of the longest response times
So first of all you should ensure that your test is doing what it is supposed to be doing by running it with 1-2 users/loops and inspecting requests/response details. At this stage you should not be having any errors.
Going forward you should increase the load gradually and correlate the increasing number of virtual users with the increasing response time/number of errors
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Performance testing is different from load testing. What you are doing is load testing.
Performance testing is more about how quickly an action takes. I typically capture performance on a system not under load for a given action.
This gives a baseline that I can then refer to during load tests.
Hopefully, you’ve been given some performance figures to test. E.g. must be able to handle 300 requests in two minutes.
When moving onto load, I run a series of load tests with increasing number of users/threads and capture the results from each test.
Armed with this, I can see how load degrades performance to the point where errors start to show up. This gives you an idea of how much typical load the system can handle.
I’d also look to run soak tests too. This where I’d run JMeter for a long period with typical (not peak) load to make sure the system can handle sustained load.
In terms of the errors you’re seeing, no I would not ignore them. Assuming your test is calling the same endpoint, it seems safe to say the code is fine, its the infrastructure struggling with the load you’re throwing at it.
When I have given 500 concurrent users load via jmeter my server throwing error message but the same time I have called same request via browser showing proper response. How it is possible? Is there any settings in jmeter for avoiding same.
It is hard to say what can go wrong without seeing your JMeter configuration, full server response, JMeter and application under test logs and network dump for browser and JMeter.
The whole idea of performance testing is mimicking real user as close as possible, so you need at least
Add HTTP Request Defaults and set JMeter to:
Download embedded resources
Use concurrent pool of 2-5 threads
Add HTTP Cookie Manager
Add HTTP Cache Manager
Add HTTP Header Manager
Correlate any dynamic parameters
Simulate any specific application behaviour (i.e. AJAX calls)
etc.
In addition to above recommendations: ideally given "good" JMeter you shouldn't see any "response messages", you should see a number of errors in final report so double check you:
Run JMeter in non-GUI mode
Storing only those metrics which are absolutely required
Follow other recommendations from 9 Easy Solutions for a JMeter Load Test “Out of Memory” Failure
beside, what Dmitri described above, I would also check the actual throughput the server returns in either cases.
Throughput depends a lot on the timers you configured in Jmeter to simulate think time.
Jmeter has no rendering and no javascript engine, so each thread is much much faster than a real browser.
I have a single node elastic search server running on ec2. I want to do some load testing using search requests with random search queries. I am using JMeter for load testing with two different approaches -
HTTP Client - When I test using these clients with 10k/20k/50k of requests, it works fine.
ES Transport Client - This works fine with approx 2k of requests.
Here are the steps I have followed -
Instantiating client on every run and close it once the test finished.
Once client instantiates, I start the jmeter sampling and send the search request.
After this run, stops the sampling.
I am getting No Node Available Exception after 2k of request with transport client.
ES Server is running with 3g of memory and have given 6g of memory to load tester.
Please help me if there is some config modification required and if I am not using the correct approach to test the load.
Thanks in Advance.
What kind of responses are you getting from the http test? Have you verified you are getting valid responses for all 10~50k requests? It might be perhaps your cluster cannot take on the load you're putting on it for either test. Since TransportClient is more intimately coupled to the ES server, you will explicitly see errors that come back from TransportClient, but if you're simply sending requests via HTTP without validating the response, it's easy to miss any issues.
Although, before taking a stab in the dark like I just did, I would also check to see what kind of QPS you are getting using the HTTP method vs the TC method, what your CPU/memory look like throughout both tests, what the response times look like, etc. It helps to monitor the health of your system throughout the process to detect any symptoms that might help explain the cause.