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BlazeMeter

Overview

What is BlazeMeter?

The BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform, supported by Broadcom since the acquisition of CA Technologies in 2018 and now by Perforce since the September 2021 acquisition, provides scriptless test automation, as well as unified functional and performance testing. It allows users…

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Blazemeter has become an essential tool for multiple teams within organizations that need to load and stress test online radio streaming …
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The Real Blaze

10 out of 10
July 29, 2021
Incentivized
We especially used the platform for load testing critical applications which are mission critical and end customer facing applications. It …
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Pricing

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Basic

$149.00

Cloud
per month

Pro

$649.00

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $199 per month
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Product Demos

BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform Overview

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Product Details

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BlazeMeter Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

The BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform, supported by Broadcom since the acquisition of CA Technologies in 2018 and now by Perforce since the September 2021 acquisition, provides scriptless test automation, as well as unified functional and performance testing. It allows users to test and monitor public, private, and 3rd party APIs, and is deployable as a SaaS, or deployed from a private cloud.

BlazeMeter starts at $199.

Load Focus and OctoPerf are common alternatives for BlazeMeter.

The most common users of BlazeMeter are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Blazemeter has become an essential tool for multiple teams within organizations that need to load and stress test online radio streaming websites. Users rely on the software to run performance tests with .jmx scripts, eliminating the need for a separate performance test environment. By using Blazemeter's Blaze Cloud as a SaaS solution, users can monitor the performance of their sites before and after deployments. This allows them to identify any performance impact or deprecation that new functionalities might introduce before releasing them into a live environment.

Blazemeter is particularly useful for load testing critical applications that are customer-facing and experience volatile customer interactions. The platform helps users understand application capacity, identify improvement areas, and plan better. Integration with CI/CD pipelines allows for automation testing with every build, enhancing efficiency. One of the key benefits of Blazemeter is its user-friendly GUI, which makes it easy to learn and implement test scripts. Additionally, multiple projects can be created on the console based on specific requirements. The software also provides the ability to set alerts and trigger reports upon completion of testing. Historical test reports can be fetched from the report section, offering valuable insights for analysis and improvement.

To enhance its capabilities, users often combine Blazemeter with other tools like Catchpoint to introduce load to the application and identify additional issues. Overall, Blazemeter is highly valued by teams looking to ensure their websites can handle high traffic loads and deliver a seamless user experience through effective performance testing.

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.

Lack of Advanced Reporting: Some users have expressed dissatisfaction with Blazemeter's reporting capabilities, describing them as basic and shallow. They feel that the platform lacks the ability to drill down or correlate data effectively.

High Cost for Large Volumes: Several reviewers have pointed out that Blazemeter can become costly, particularly when conducting performance tests with large volumes exceeding 1K cu. This pricing structure may deter some users who are working with extensive testing requirements.

No Integration with Jenkins Pipeline 2.0: Users have requested integration between Blazemeter and Jenkins Pipeline 2.0, as it is currently not supported. The absence of this feature limits the seamless integration and automation options available to those using both tools in their workflow.

Reviews

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July 29, 2021

The Real Blaze

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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
  • BlazeMeter Google chrome extension can be improved in usability sense
  • Script creations with record feature can be improved
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.
  • Load testing capability
  • Good quality GUI which facilitates all team members to use it
  • Cloud based Load generation feature
  • It helped positively by helping to identify the maximum capacity needed for high traffic periods
  • Saved revenue by eliminating unwanted duplication of systems
BlazeMeter scores well against Apache JMeter in one Key point , the load generation from different cloud based systems. This helps to measure the capacity of the the application in a transparent way and not bogged down by the capacity of the system from where the test is executed (in this case Apache JMeter).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • Results are easy to read
  • Tests can be run easily
  • Tests can ben imported easily from JMeter
  • none at all, I really took my time thinking about this and the tool is really simple, clean and complete
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.
  • We have detected performance breaks in our app during early stages and avoided to take this problems into production.
  • We have been able to test our APIs and have a measurement of the performance.
In comparison with Blazemeter the closes competitor is JMeter but it has disadvantages like it is not a tool that can be use as a collaborative tool and works locally in a computer, Blazemeter is in the web so different people can access and run tests or collaborate do add, edit or delete the existent scripts.
CucumberStudio, from SmartBear (formerly hiptest), Postman, Cypress
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
It is suited for most API scenarios that we have tried. However, it does not fit in well for big data solutions.
Automation Testing
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  • BlazeMerter helped performance tests run on their cloud, thereby diminishing our on-prem setup costs tremendously.
  • BlazeMeter pings our application from several geographical locations, thereby simulating real life users.
  • BlazeMeter offers dedicated IPs so that firewall issues can be bypassed.
  • SOASTA
BlazeMeter integrates better with a continuous delivery pipeline than SOASTA did.
Sauce Labs, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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.
Automation Testing
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  • Running a performance test to determine how much load our site could sustain gave us some needed insight.
Personally, I prefer using JMeter + Redline13, however we had some business folks that wanted to be able to run a few of their own tests. The non-technical individuals preferred to use Blazemeter because of its simple and intuitive UI.
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