The following steps were executed on Windows, on other OS the steps may vary.
JMeter requires Java 8 or higher.
JMeter can be downloaded from here by using the the zip-file. The downloaded file can be verified by checking the hash with the following command:
certUtils -hashfile <downloaded-zip-file> SHA512The output can then be compared with the SHA512 available on the download site.
The JMeter GUI which can be used to build a test plan can be started by executing the jmeter.bat file.
Through the menu File -> Template a test plan can be created from a template.
I used the Building a web test plan template.
To create a POST request it's important to add
Content-Type: application/jsonto the HTTP Header Manager- Set the content encoding of the request to
utf-8
To run jmeter from the CLI cd into the directory where JMeter is installed first.
Run any jmeter script in non-GUI mode with the following command to generate a log sample result:
jmeter -n -t <script-path>.jmx -l <output-path>Generate a report dashboard from a log sample result:
jmeter -g <file-path> -o <folder-path>Optionally the granularity can be set by adding the following argument -Jjmeter.reportgenerator.overall_granularity=<milliseconds>
| Argument | Description |
|---|---|
| -n | run in non-GUI mode |
| -t | path to JMX file that contains the test plan |
| -l | path of file to log sample results to |
| -g | path to csv file for generating report dashboard |
| -o | output folder where report dashboard should be generated |