Alternatives for grafana as visualization tool - jmeter

Would like to know if you have any idea on the tools similar like grafana , particularly which does not use any databases for saving the datas.
Kindly help us something like light weight tools if possible , which can show graphs just through the jmeter jtl file if posssible.
Thanks in advance.

If you want to get graphs out of the existing .jtl file the options are in:
Generate HTML Reporting Dashboard out of the .jtl results file
Opening the .jtl results file with the Listener of your choice (applies to Custom Graphs as well)
Use Graphs Generator Listener
Use JMeterPluginsCMD Command Line Graph Plotting Tool
Use online results analysis solution like BM.Sense
If you want realtime results but don't want to invest into infrastructure you can consider running your JMeter test using Taurus tool which produces text-based tables and charts during execution:
or you can configure Taurus to open a browser and show the interactive fancy charts

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Any global reporting format to show the JMeter performance result?

I am not able to show the report to the management team in proper format. if you guys have any standared format or global format then please suggest me.
JMeter's .jtl results file is basically a CSV file containing Sampler start time, elapsed time, connect time, whether it was successful or not, and so on, the columns can be chosen via Results File Configuration
So you need to ask your management what form of "report" do they expect and generate tables and charts they're looking for.
Some options you can use fully or partially:
JMeter Listeners which can read the .jtl file, do some calculations/plotting and save the output in form of CSV or PNG files
JMeter Plugins Command Line Tool which does the same but provides possibility of automation and some extra charts on top
Graphs Generator Listener
It's possible to generate HTML Reporting Dashboard out of the .jtl results file
There is BlazeMeter Uploader plugin (can be installed using JMeter Plugins Manager) which uploads your test results to BlazeMeter and you can export a management-friendly report from there
And last but not the least you can use MS Excel or equivalent to produce whatever output you want

Is it possible to get Blazemeter like report in JMeter?

I want to generate a report in JMeter exactly like Blazemeter. Do we have any listener in JMeter or any plugin. I did search on google but didn't find the exact solution. If anyone has idea then please suggest.
Take a look at Taurus tool, it provides possibilities to:
Run existing .jmx script
Get online interactive report in your browser
Load existing .jtl results file to BlazeMeter
There is The Complete Taurus Course in the BlazeMeter University.
Alternative option would be using Backend Listener to store your test results in InfluxDB and visualize it using Grafana. There are several existing JMeter dashboards, you might find one of them covering your needs or use it as a basis for your customizations.

REG: Jmeter Test reporting framework

I am trying build a report that gives comparison of response time between selected test runs. do we have any such extension or reporting framework which will take Test Run JtL files as input and generate comparison report of different response time ?
Suggestion-
If you have a an output csv then create a dashboard report and jmeter response graph will give you comparison results
Use this command in cmd- i think you can also use jtl in this
jmeter -g C:\Users\output.csv -o C:\Users\Report
open an html file and check Response time graph.
and if don't have consolidated csv try consolidating manually and check graph of response time.
The ready solution is BM.Sense results analysis platform
If you're trying to build your own "framework" and would like to copy paste the main logic from somewhere you can take a look at Merge Results plugin
You can put your test under Jenkins orchestration and use Performance Plugin for building performance trends charts, the comparison logic is also there and the plugin is open source
You can use Backend Listener and store the execution results to an external source like InfluxDB and then visualize/compare them using Grafana

JMeter - How to load result file?

I have done a test JMeter and am able to get results.csv or result.jtl.
How do I load it into JMeter from the GUI and command line?
What do you mean by "load"? You have the results, now you need to analyze them. It can be done in different ways depending on how you plan to represent results and what metrics do you need to report, for example:
Using Microsoft Excel or equivalent like Libre Office Calc
Using JMeter GUI:
Open JMeter GUI
Add Listener of your choice to the Test Plan (for example Aggregate Report is quite good)
Using "Browse" button locate your results file and load it
JMeter will parse the results file, perform necessary calculations and display the metrics. If you need you can click "Save Table Data" to export the results for later re-use
You can plot some charts reflecting the test metrics using Graphs Generator Listener
You can generate HTML Reporting Dashboard like:
jmeter -g your_result_file.jtl -o /where/you/want/the/dashboard/to/be/generated
You can use a 3rd-party analysis service like JAnalyzer or BM.Sense
You need to add listener to create jtl and result files.
Write in listener filename: results.csv

What are JTL's in Jmeter? how to use them?

I have read in best practices for jmeter -
Disable all JMeter graphs as they consume a lot of memory. You can view all of the real time
graphs using the JTLs tab in your web interface.
How is it done?
Also How can i generate graphs from JTL file.
I have read that xml format for saving results to file are pretty expensive in terms of resource utilization.
How can graphs be generated from logs with csv format?
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JMeter can create text files containing the results of a test run.
These are normally called JTL files, as that is the default extension
- but any extension can be used.
from https://wiki.apache.org/jmeter/JtlFiles
And you can check how to create a plan here:
https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/build-web-test-plan.html
Graph Results
https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#Graph_Results
Graph Results MUST NOT BE USED during load test as it consumes a lot
of resources (memory and CPU). Use it only for either functional
testing or during Test Plan debugging and Validation.
Just don't use it.
And here is some information as how to read the files:
How to make JMeter output graphs from log-file?
Just generate you own graph.
You should design your load testing as follows:
Store only those metrics which are absolutely required (you can control what values to save using properties which names start with jmeter.save.saveservice.*
Run JMeter test in non-GUI mode with all listeners disabled
Once test is finished you can do the following:
Open JMeter GUI, add Listener of your choice, i.e. Aggregate Graph and using "Browse" button locate and open resulting .jtl file. JMeter will render the graph
Use Graphs Generator Listener
See 9 Easy Solutions for a JMeter Load Test “Out of Memory” Failure article for JMeter performance tips and tweaks.
In Jmeter under Tools -> Generate HTML report:
This opens the dialog:
There you can select the .jtl file.
You also have to select the user.properties file (you find one in the bin directory of Jmeter) and pass a path to an output directory, which has to be empty.
Then you can generate the report, which you will find in the output directory.
There you will find an index.html file which includes the report.

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