{"id":349,"date":"2014-07-15T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2023-06-22T21:11:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T21:11:29","slug":"schedule-load-tests-for-apis-in-the-cloud-with-loadfocus-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/schedule-load-tests-for-apis-in-the-cloud-with-loadfocus-com","title":{"rendered":"Schedule Load Tests for APIs in the Cloud with LoadFocus.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes read<\/span><\/span><p class=\"lead\"><!-- pn-tldr --><\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Scheduled API load tests catch regressions that only appear after a deploy.<\/li>\n<li>Run them off-peak so the test does not compete with real traffic.<\/li>\n<li>Alert on threshold breaches; nobody reads a scheduled report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/pn-tldr --><a title=\"schedule api load tests\" href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\"><strong>Scheduling Load Tests<\/strong><\/a> feature is now available on <a title=\"schedule load tests\" href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\"><strong>LoadFocus.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/schedule_load_test.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"113\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-378\" src=\"http:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/schedule_load_test.png\" alt=\"schedule_load_test\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Basically you can create new load tests and schedule them to run every day at a specific time. You can set a\u00a0<strong>Start Date\u00a0<\/strong>and leave <strong>End Data<\/strong> blank for infinite runs. Add an <strong>End Date<\/strong> to schedule load tests on specific intervals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>run load tests automatically at specific intervals of time<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>receive load tests\u00a0results by having notifications sent to your account email address<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, this gives the opportunity to run tests\u00a0when\u00a0you are not present in the test lab, such as over evenings or weekends. To understand the errors and response codes from the notification emails of the scheduled tests you can check the <a title=\"errors and response codes in load testing\" href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/errors-and-response-codes-in-load-testing-on-loadfocus-com\/\"><strong>errors and response codes in load testing<\/strong><\/a> blog post.<\/p>\n<p>You can use schedule feature for API Endpoints, Websites, Web Applications straight away. Enjoy!<!-- pn-faq --><\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<h3>Why schedule load tests?<\/h3>\n<p>Because regressions arrive with deploys, and a test you run manually happens after someone already suspects a problem. A scheduled run finds it first.<\/p>\n<h3>When should they run?<\/h3>\n<p>Off-peak. A load test competing with real traffic degrades the experience you are trying to protect and produces numbers shaped by whatever else was happening.<\/p>\n<h3>How do I make the results matter?<\/h3>\n<p>Alert on threshold breaches. Nobody reads a scheduled report, so a run that only produces a chart quietly stops being useful within a month.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/pn-faq --><!-- pn-related-reading --><\/p>\n<h2>Related reading<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scheduled-load-tests\">Schedule Load Tests and Get Alerted on Breaks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/schedule-mobile-emulation-to-run-continuously\">Schedule Mobile Emulation to Run Continuously<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/what-is-http-post-request\">What is HTTP POST Request?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes read<\/span><\/span>Key takeaways Scheduled API load tests catch regressions that only appear after a deploy. Run them off-peak so the test does not compete with real traffic. Alert on threshold breaches; nobody reads a scheduled report. Scheduling Load Tests feature is now available on LoadFocus.com. Basically you can create new load tests and schedule them to&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/schedule-load-tests-for-apis-in-the-cloud-with-loadfocus-com\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Schedule Load Tests for APIs in the Cloud with LoadFocus.com\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[555,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-testing","category-load-testing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}