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/ |
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| Pricing: | https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/load-testing/ |
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News
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| 4/14/2025 |
Azure Load Testing now supports simulating managed identity based authentication flows in load tests. As you transition to more secure authentication methods like managed identities, this...
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| 4/9/2025 |
What is Strapi on App Service?
Strapi is an open-source, headless CMS that is highly customizable and developer-friendly. App Service is a fully managed platform for building, deploying, and...
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| 4/8/2025 |
We are excited to announce a significant update to our Azure Load Testing service, aimed at enhancing the experience of setting up and running load tests from CI/CD systems, including Azure...
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| 3/21/2025 |
Azure Load Testing now supports Locust, a Python-based open-source framework for performance testing. You can use your existing Locust scripts with Azure Load Testing to easily generate...
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| 3/18/2025 |
[Update on March 18, 2025: AI-powered load test generation, referred to in the third section below, is in preview now!]
Azure Load Testing (ALT) has been an essential tool for performance...
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| 3/18/2025 |
There's a better way than writing load test scripts by hand. The new Azure Load Testing extension for Visual Studio Code (Preview), now integrated with GitHub Copilot, automatically generates...
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| 2/27/2025 |
At Microsoft, we prioritize security above anything else. As part of the Secure Future Initiative (SFI), one of the key guidelines from an identity and access security perspective is to replace...
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| 2/27/2025 |
Azure Load Testing now allows you to configure notifications to receive updates for key events, such as test completion or schedule changes. These notifications can help you automate follow-up...
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| 2/26/2025 |
We are thrilled to introduce Notifications in Azure Load Testing to ensure you never miss critical updates in your performance testing workflows. With notifications, you can stay informed about...
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| 2/14/2025 |
Azure Load Testing now supports using multiple JMeter files and fragments in a single load test, enabling greater modularity and reuse in your test design. Organize your JMeter scripts into...
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| 2/13/2025 |
With the new scheduling feature in Azure Load Testing, you can now automate test runs at a predefined time or cadence, ensuring seamless performance validation without manual intervention.Learn more.
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| 2/6/2025 |
We are excited to announce a significant update to Azure Load Testing that allows you to use multiple JMeter files and fragments in your test configurations. This feature empowers users to design...
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| 2/5/2025 |
Why Schedule Load Tests?
Automating your load tests through scheduling enhances performance validation in multiple ways:
Consistent performance monitoring – Set up tests to run daily, weekly,...
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| 1/15/2025 |
This latest update empowers you to easily create load tests and analyze results with enhanced insight. This CLI release now includes features like those previously available in Azure Portal or...
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| 11/26/2024 |
In a recent blog, we outlined what Azure Essentials is and why it matters. This blog will take a closer look at how Azure Essentials helps organizations build and modernize AI applications. We...
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| 11/22/2024 |
Are you ready to take your performance testing to the next level? With Azure Load Testing, you can effortlessly generate high-scale loads and pinpoint performance bottlenecks, all within a fully...
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| 11/19/2024 |
We are excited to announce that Azure Functions Flex Consumption is now generally available. This hosting plan provides the highest performance for Azure Functions with concurrency-based scaling...
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| 11/19/2024 |
Azure Functions is Azure’s primary serverless code service used in production by hundreds of thousands of customers who run several trillions of executions on it monthly across many different...
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| 10/24/2024 |
You can now set fail criteria on server metrics, thereby defining performance and quality expectations for your application under load. Monitor your applications components and specify the...
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| 8/19/2024 |
Welcome to the August 2024 edition of Azure Functions newsletter! We'll share the latest news for Azure Functions here on the Apps on Azure blog.
Azure Functions monthly community live...
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