Azure Load Testing

Optimize app performance with high-scale load testing.

Overview

Azure Load Testing Preview is a fully managed load-testing service that enables you to generate high-scale load. The service simulates traffic for your applications, regardless of where they're hosted. Developers, testers, and quality assurance (QA) engineers can use it to optimize application performance, scalability, or capacity.

Key Resources

Homepage: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/load-testing/
Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/load-testing/
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News

Date News
9/19/2023
Ensuring that your applications perform seamlessly under load is crucial. The last thing you want is for a code change or new feature to negatively impact your app's performance. That's where...
9/12/2023
In Azure Load Testing, you can now view how metrics change over your test runs. You can also set a baseline for test results and compare trends to it.
9/7/2023
Azure Load Testing now supports uploading files greater than 50 MB by compressing them into a ZIP file.
9/7/2023
Azure Load Testing resources can now move across resource groups and subscriptions without losing tests /test runs.
8/31/2023
With App Service Diagnostics, customers of Azure App Service aim to achieve service availability and resilience of their web applications. In this blog post, we’ll cover how App Service users can...
8/15/2023
Azure Load Testing is in generally available in Japan East and Brazil South.
8/11/2023
Azure and Data technical specialist Ian Pike, joins us on the Podcast to give us a primer on Fabric and what is means for customers that use various data-related services on Azure.   Media...
8/4/2023
Azure Load Testing now supports JMeter backend listeners, so you can now configure a backend listener to export load test results to a data store, of your choice.
8/3/2023
Azure Load Testing now enables running tests for durations up to 24 hours.
8/3/2023
Azure Load Testing now supports managing tests and test runs from Azure CLI
8/3/2023
Azure Load Testing now supports running tests with 100,000 virtual users, using up to 400 engine instances.
7/27/2023
Get your apps holiday-ready with our 7-part #ResilientApps online series at the Microsoft Reactor!   Prepare your apps for the holiday season and ensure they can handle the surge of users, avoid...
7/13/2023
Azure Load Testing is a fully managed load testing service that enables you to easily generate high scale load and gain actionable insights into the performance and scalability of your...
6/30/2023
  Azure App Service offers a fast, easy, and cost-effective way to migrate your .NET web apps from on-premises to the cloud. Check out these helpful tools, best practices, and essential resources...
6/27/2023
Azure Load Testing is a fully managed load testing service that enables you to easily generate large scale load. I am excited to share that you can now run the tests using (Command-Line...
6/26/2023
Azure Load Testing is a fully managed service for simulating real-world, large-scale traffic to your application and services. The rich dashboard provides actionable insights, based on...
6/16/2023
Retirement notice: Move to Azure Load Testing GA API versions by 10 September 2023
6/13/2023
Azure Load Testing load testing now supports additional Azure components for server-side monitoring during a load test run.
6/13/2023
Configure auto stop criteria automatically stops a load test if the error percentage exceeds a given threshold for a certain time window.
6/13/2023
You can now set up a 'quick test' to check that your endpoint can handle a certain throughput of requests per second (RPS).