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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| 12/31/2025 |
Creating reliable load tests shouldn’t require hours of manual scripting. With AI-assisted load test authoring in Azure App Testing, you can go from a simple browser recording to a...
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| 12/23/2025 |
Creating reliable load tests shouldn’t require hours of manual scripting. With AI-assisted load test authoring in Azure Load Testing, you can go from a simple browser recording to a...
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| 12/2/2025 |
From Physics and Information Theory to Practical Reliability in the Cloud
Two years ago I wrote about mitigating downtime and increasing reliability by managing complexity in cloud‑native...
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| 11/24/2025 |
Azure Load Testing capability in Azure App Testing is now generally available in Italy North. Customers can now use Azure Load Testing, a fully managed load-testing service to generate high scale...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Performance testing is critical for delivering reliable, scalable applications. We have been working on AI-driven innovations in Azure Load Testing that will change how you author and analyze...
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| 10/24/2025 |
Introduction
Delivering high-performance serverless applications is at the heart of Azure Functions. Azure Functions serves countless customer workloads across scenarios like APIs, event...
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| 10/22/2025 |
With Azure Chaos Studio and Azure Load Testing, you can simulate both — run a controlled load test while injecting faults into your application or infrastructure to understand how it behaves...
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| 9/9/2025 |
Last August, we
introduced Azure App
Testing, a unified testing service that brings together two powerful
testing capabilities—Azure Load Testing and Microsoft Playwright Testing—to
help...
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| 8/13/2025 |
Azure App Testing centralizes functional and performance testing for your apps. With Playwright Workspaces, you can author, execute, and analyze browser tests at scale, both locally and in the...
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| 8/7/2025 |
Azure App Testing enables developers and QA teams to run large-scale functional and performance tests to pinpoint issues in their applications, across frameworks like Playwright, JMeter, or...
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| 5/29/2025 |
Introduction
Ensuring reliable, high-performance serverless applications is central to our work on Azure Functions. With new plans like Flex Consumption expanding the platform’s capabilities,...
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| 5/21/2025 |
We’re excited to announce the preview of AI powered Actionable Insights in Azure Load Testing—a new capability that helps teams quickly identify performance issues and understand test results...
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| 5/21/2025 |
Azure Load Testing now offers AI-driven actionable insights (Preview) to help you identify and resolve performance issues more quickly and confidently. This new capability automatically analyzes...
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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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