TrustRadius Insights for BlazeMeter are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Intuitive and Uncluttered UI: Several users have mentioned that Blazemeter has a very intuitive and uncluttered user interface. They appreciate its simplicity, making it easy for beginners to figure out and get started with.
Seamless Transition from JMeter: Many reviewers have highlighted the seamless transition from JMeter to Blazemeter. They mention that Blazemeter takes the .jmx script already written for JMeter, eliminating the need to learn a new tool or language.
Cloud Platform and Real-life User Simulation: The fact that Blazemeter offers its own cloud platform is seen as a positive aspect by several users. It eliminates the need to set up on-premise infrastructure. Additionally, users like that Blazemeter has the capability to simulate real-life users by hitting applications from various geographic locations.
We are using BlazeMeter tool to do performance testing in our organization. It is mainly used for API performance testing and comparing results from baseline.
Pros
Dashboard
Generating Loads from nodes
Performance Testing
Cons
Frontend Performance Testing
Likelihood to Recommend
To do Performance testing and storing results. Define Baseline and compare results with baseline.
BlazeMeter is best for performance and load testing. When we were migrated from old data center to new data center we used this for load and performance testing. We integrated it with CI/CD pipeline for automation testing with every build. It has best GUI one can learn and implement the test script easily. It allows us create multiple project on console based on our requirements. We are also using this for functional testing. we have seet alert and trigger report to specific group on completion of testing. We can also fetch historical test report from It's report section.
Pros
Load Testing -> Comparing API response in old server and new server
Functional testing
Integration with Jenkins so It will trigger automatically with CI/CD pipeline
We get email about test reports which shows API response details.
Cons
It required good knowledge to analyze BlazeMeter report.
Likelihood to Recommend
BlazeMeter is a powerful load testing platform It helps us during data center migration . We have compare API response time by doing load testing on Old data center and new data center. This help us a lot for technology selection. We can integrate with Jenkins so no need to execute script manually . It can handle load test of any size of user (millions) no need of additional infrastructure.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
We especially used the platform for load testing critical applications which are mission critical and end customer facing applications. It was used more specifically for applications which see volatile customer interactions and can burst into high traffic in few seconds. The platform helped in understanding the application capacity and improvement areas and helped in planning better.
Pros
Its compatibility with open source Apache JMeter is a huge Plus
Blazemeter GUI provides the capability to load scripts and get into action much faster and easier
No expertise is needed to do the load testing
Cons
BlazeMeter Google chrome extension can be improved in usability sense
Script creations with record feature can be improved
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for applications that are mission-critical or applications that can receive high traffic/transactions at unscheduled time periods. Using the load testing feature of BlazeMeter, we can test and ascertain the capacity of the application without the drawbacks of the usual Apache JMeter load testing which depends heavily on the host system from where the load testing is performed.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
We use it before every internal release to monitor the performance of our site and then we re run it after the deploy in our development environments so we can identify if our performance is being affected by the functionalities that we are planning to release. BlazeMeter help us to identify performance impact or deprecation that new functionalities might introduce before releasing them into a live environment so we can act on consequence and fix and improve our code with anticipation. We also use it as a complement with other tools like Catchpoint, with BlazeMeter we introduce some load to the application and in the meanwhile we run Catchpoint tests to identify other issues.
Pros
Results are easy to read
Tests can be run easily
Tests can ben imported easily from jMeter
Cons
none at all, I really took my time thinking about this and the tool is really simple, clean and complete
Likelihood to Recommend
It is good for measurements of performance testing. It can be used to run API testing.
I can not use this for monitoring but it can be used as a complement for monitoring tools (like Catchpoint or New Relic). It can help to produce load on your site and monitor.
It is being used by several teams at this time, while the rest of the organization is ramping up to use it.
It is being used to run performance tests with .jmx scripts. We don't have to set up a performance test environment and we use the Blaze Cloud as a SaaS solution.
Pros
BlazeMeter takes the .jmx script that teams had written for JMeter. The transition from JMeter to BlazeMeter was seamless.
BlazeMeter offers its own cloud and hence we did not have to set it up on-premise.
BlazeMeter hits our application from various geographic locations that simulates real life users.
Cons
BlazeMeter should not require the purchase of 2 dedicated IPs for each suite of performance tests.
BlazeMeter should make custom packages cheaper than they are today when purchased for an enterprise and should include dedicated IPs in the package.
BlazeMerer should have integration with Jenkins Pipeline 2.0.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is suited for most API scenarios that we have tried. However, it does not fit in well for big data solutions.
We user Blazemeter to load and stress test several online radio streaming websites managed by my company. As far as I know it was being used by my department only at the time.
Pros
Blazemeter has very intuitive and uncluttered UI. It is very easy for a beginner to figure out and get started.
Blazemeter allows several methods of creating performance tests - using several popular open source applications. Therefore most often there is no need to learn to use a new tool or language.
Cons
Blazemeter reporting is very basic and shallow. There is no way to drill down or correlate. I can get better reports by using JMeter for free.
Blazemeter is very costly. Testing with volumes of more than 1K cu is expensive, and can be done for much cheaper if a company/team is willing to invest a bit of time to figure out how to use cloud instances and jmeter slaves, and to write a basic script to collect resulting xml output.
Likelihood to Recommend
Performance testing is a complex concept to grasp and Blazemeter is easy to get started with. So if a completely non-technical beginner needed immediate results and cost was not an issue, I would recommend Blazemeter as a temporary, short term solution. However, if the individuals intention is to execute performance testing regularly, I would strongly encourage them to consider other means. For example Redline13 + JMeter.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Quality Assurance (5001-10,000 employees)
