{"id":1753,"date":"2020-10-02T08:38:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T08:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2021-01-20T06:03:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:03:28","slug":"how-does-apache-jmeter-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/how-does-apache-jmeter-work","title":{"rendered":"How does Apache JMeter work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute read<\/span><\/span>\n<p class=\"lead\">JMeter offers the ability to simulate a number of users sending various HTTP\/HTTPS requests to a server application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Apache JMeter <\/strong>is not limited to HTTP\/HTTPS, it supports other protocols like FTP,  SMTP, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JMeter does not execute the Javascript from the HTML pages and it does not render the HTML received from the request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/d2woeiihr4s5r6.cloudfront.net\/loadtesting\/load-test-configuration-new-test.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/jmeter-load-testing\" title=\"jmeter load test in the cloud\">Running an Apache JMeter Load Test in the Cloud<\/a> from LoadFocus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>JMeter adds load to a server in order to analyse the overall behaviour of the system under test. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You should be familiar with the <a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/which-is-the-execution-order-of-elements-in-apache-jmeter\/\" title=\"Which is the Execution Order of Elements in Apache JMeter?\">order of execution for elements inside a Apache JMeter<\/a> script file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Written by <a href=\"https:\/\/coursinator.com\/instructor\/bogdan-vazzolla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Bogdan Vazzolla<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/\">LoadFocus<\/a> is a cloud performance, <a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/load-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"load testing tool\">load and stress testing tool<\/a> which provides the infrastructure to run tests with thousands of concurrent users, from <a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/locations\">multiple cloud locations<\/a>, in less than a few minutes, keep history of the results, compare different runs to inspect performance improvements or performance degradation.<\/em> It also supports running <a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/jmeter-load-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"jmeter load test\">JMeter load tests from the cloud<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute read<\/span><\/span>JMeter offers the ability to simulate a number of users sending various HTTP\/HTTPS requests to a server application. Apache JMeter is not limited to HTTP\/HTTPS, it supports other protocols like FTP, SMTP, and much more. JMeter does not execute the Javascript from the HTML pages and it does not render the HTML received from the&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/how-does-apache-jmeter-work\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read How does Apache JMeter work?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[297,19,296],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}