apache_jmeter

Apache JMeter Template

Provided by: bonitoo.io

This template provides Apache JMeter dashboard

The Apache JMeter™ application is open source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions.

The Apache JMeter test can be set up to send data to InfluxDB. The InfluxDB dashboard provides beautiful visualizations of the collected test results in time.

JMeter metrics available in this dashboard:

• Request count, successful and failing
• Max, min, avg response time per transaction
• Percentiles
• User count
• Number of hits
• Number of sent and received bytes

Quick Install

InfluxDB UI

In the InfluxDB UI, go to Settings->Templates and enter this URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/community-templates/master/apache_jmeter/apache_jmeter.yml

Influx CLI

If you have your InfluxDB credentials configured in the CLI, you can install this template with:

influx apply -u https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/community-templates/master/apache_jmeter/apache_jmeter.yml

Included Resources

The template consists of the following:

• 1 Dashboard: JMeter
• 1 Variable: bucket

The sample Test Plan boilerplate project in the samples directory.

Setup Instructions

General instructions on using InfluxDB Templates can be found in the use a template document.

Import the template

influx apply --file ./apache_jmeter.yml

Start with a sample test project:

The sample Test Plan is written to test the influxd itself. Before you run the test, make sure you have started the local influxd command and the InfluxDB 2.x is running on your localhost.

To start with the sample test project, follow these steps:

1. Install Apache JMeter - http://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi,

2. Install InfluxDB 2.x on your localhost

3. Start Apache JMeter and open the Test Plan.jmx Apache JMeter project located in the ./samples directory.

4. Inside of the JMeter application, set up the my-org, my-bucket and my-token variables in the project. Open Test Plan > Thread Group in the project tree

   • Loop Controller > Auth Header Setup, modify the header Authorization value to Token my-token
   • update the following parameters on the InfluxDB Backend Listener, see the screenshot 2 below,
     • influxdbUrl the params org and bucket
     • influxdbToken the value my-token

   Screenshot 2: Apache JMeter configuration, the relevant Parameters are hilited:

5. Run the Test

The dashboard should start presenting the results. You can also see the write transaction is being shown in the KO request count cell. This is intentional. You can fix this in the Apache JMeter project by configuring the bucket that is used to store random weather data.

As a result, you are ready to create your advanced test project integrated with the InfluxDB.

Customizations

n/a

Contact

Author: Ivan Kudibal, https://www.bonitoo.io

Github: @ivankudibal

Influx Slack: @ivankudibal