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Blitz vs RedLine13: What are the differences?
Developers describe Blitz as "Load testing for websites, web apps, and REST APIs". Build bulletproof, scalable solutions with Blitz - a simple and fun service for load testing web apps and APIs in the cloud. Blitz offers powerful yet simple capabilities including continuous monitoring, performance testing and remediation. Blitz enables you to instantly burst up to 50,000 concurrent users against your app in seconds from multiple points of presence around the world. On the other hand, RedLine13 is detailed as "(Almost) free load and performance testing in the cloud". It is a load testing platform that brings the low cost power of the cloud to JMeter and other open source load testing tools.
Blitz and RedLine13 can be categorized as "Load and Performance Testing" tools.
Some of the features offered by Blitz are:
- Complex transactions- Whether you want to test a web page or a complex transaction , Blitz makes it easy for you to determine the number of users you can support.
- Detailed feedback- Get detailed statistics and feedback in real time, and in plain English
- Plugins- With our extension for Chrome or add-on for Firefox , just navigating to a webpage and run a performance test. Blitz takes care of the cookies, authentication and all the other underlying complexities.
On the other hand, RedLine13 provides the following key features:
- Build packaged, custom, and repeatable tests that can easily delivered to QA, streamlining your testing process
- Run an unlimited amount of tests on an unlimited amount of servers for as long as you’d like. Testing with RedLine13 means testing without limits.
- Cloud load testing means you can scale out your tests: 1,000 users, 100,000 users, and even 1,000,000 users
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Pros of Blitz
- Load testing2
Pros of RedLine13
- Easy to scale JMeter in the cloud cheaply4
- Easy to scale JMeter in the cloud for free or almost fr2
- Can run load agents in any EC2 Region1
- Generate JMeter Report in the cloud1
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What is Blitz?
Build bulletproof, scalable solutions with Blitz - a simple and fun service for load testing web apps and APIs in the cloud. Blitz offers powerful yet simple capabilities including continuous monitoring, performance testing and remediation. Blitz enables you to instantly burst up to 50,000 concurrent users against your app in seconds from multiple points of presence around the world.
What is RedLine13?
It is a load testing platform that brings the low cost power of the cloud to JMeter and other open source load testing tools.
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What are some alternatives to Blitz and RedLine13?
Loader.io
Loader.io is a free load testing service that allows you to stress test
your web-apps/apis with thousands of concurrent connections.
Apache JMeter
It 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.
Gatling
Gatling is a highly capable load testing tool. It is designed for ease of use, maintainability and high performance.
Out of the box, Gatling comes with excellent support of the HTTP protocol that makes it a tool of choice for load testing any HTTP server. As the core engine is actually protocol agnostic, it is perfectly possible to implement support for other protocols. For example, Gatling currently also ships JMS support.
k6
It is a developer centric open source load testing tool for testing the performance of your backend infrastructure. It’s built with Go and JavaScript to integrate well into your development workflow.
Locust
Locust is an easy-to-use, distributed, user load testing tool. Intended for load testing web sites (or other systems) and figuring out how many concurrent users a system can handle.