Apache JMeter Pros and Cons

Jmeter allows our stakeholders and developers to really gain insights into how our services are performing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There could be some better tooling around the automation portion and pipeline integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a free tool and easily integrates with other tools like Badboys and Blazemeter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Could have been more user-friendly, I wish it had an interactive user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Possibilities to customize parameters for GET or POST. Massive testing of API requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing is perfect for API or WEB Testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its an open source tool with tons of capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User interface could be better like load runner or similar tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use with api where we can plug-in in the api urls and run tests quickly with varied data sets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Technical knowledge needed to set it up and make it run automated tests integrating with customer/cd pipeline Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apache jmeter is most helpful in load testing of application and it is used for API testing as well on some cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The architecture or framework design for testing is difficult sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is free and easy to install. It has a user-friendly interface and it also can be used in a command-line interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve can be a little steep until you get familiar with it. However, there are so many resources and support for JMeter which help in this regard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

you can run your load based on thread group, time, number of requests per second, you can run based on conditions. Very simple to use.

Result sets are good, u can create graphs, throughput you can check 90% 95% 99% etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dont see any downsides, better integration plugin's would be good like run scope. run scope gives location based performance testing. but it good to have. not really an issue. u can install jmeter in different machines in different environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is one of the best Stress Testing tool present in market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it's a little bit slow if we talk about performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of using JMeter for load or stress testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Creation of JMX files and navigating to different JMX plans is difficult Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.