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April 2024

9 Apr

Run Azure Load Testing on Azure App Service web apps

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

Load test your web apps directly from Azure App Service in Azure portal.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Web Apps
  • Features
9 Apr

Azure Load Testing availability in Fairfax (USGov Virginia)

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure Load Testing GA in Fairfax cloud - USGov Virginia. US Government customers on the Fairfax cloud can now use Azure Load Testing to simplify their end-to-end load testing process.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services

January 2024

11 Jan

Create tests by adding HTTP requests in Azure Load Testing

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing now supports creating load tests by HTTP requests.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
9 Jan

Azure Load Testing supports Web Driver Sampler plugin for Apache JMeter

NOW AVAILABLE

With Azure Load Testing, you can now measure response time as experienced by the end user leveraging the Web Driver Sampler plugin for Apache JMeter

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services

September 2023

28 Sep

Generally available: Azure Load Testing in Southeast Asia, Canada Central, Germany West Central and Central India

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing is in generally available in Southeast Asia, Canada Central, Germany West Central and Central India.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
12 Sep

View trends of client-side metrics across test runs in Azure Load Testing

NOW AVAILABLE

In Azure Load Testing, you can now view how metrics change over your test runs. You can also set a baseline for test results and compare trends to it.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
12 Sep

Configure load testing in your CI/CD pipeline from Azure portal

NOW AVAILABLE

Configure load testing in your CI/CD pipeline from Azure portal in just a few steps.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
7 Sep

Azure Load Testing now supports uploading large files as ZIP

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing now supports uploading files greater than 50 MB by compressing them into a ZIP file.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
7 Sep

Move Azure Load Testing resources across resource groups and subscriptions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing resources can now move across resource groups and subscriptions without losing tests /test runs.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features

August 2023

15 Aug

Generally available: Azure Load Testing in Japan East and Brazil South

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing is in generally available in Japan East and Brazil South.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Features
4 Aug

Azure Load Testing: Now supports JMeter backend listeners

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing now supports JMeter backend listeners, so you can now configure a backend listener to export load test results to a data store, of your choice.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
3 Aug

Azure Load Testing: Run tests for up to 24 hours

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing now enables running tests for durations up to 24 hours.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
3 Aug

Azure Load Testing: Create and manage tests and test runs using Azure CLI

IN PREVIEW

Azure Load Testing now supports managing tests and test runs from Azure CLI

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
3 Aug

Azure Load Testing: Run tests with 100,000 virtual users

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing now supports running tests with 100,000 virtual users, using up to 400 engine instances.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features

June 2023

16 Jun

Retirement notice: Move to Azure Load Testing GA API versions by 10 September 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: September 10, 2023

Retirement notice: Move to Azure Load Testing GA API versions by 10 September 2023

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
13 Jun

Microsoft Azure Load Testing - additional Azure components for server-side monitoring

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing load testing now supports additional Azure components for server-side monitoring during a load test run.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
13 Jun

Microsoft Azure Load Testing - configure auto stop criteria

NOW AVAILABLE

Configure auto stop criteria automatically stops a load test if the error percentage exceeds a given threshold for a certain time window.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
13 Jun

Microsoft Azure Load Testing supports setting up quick start tests using requests per second

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now set up a 'quick test' to check that your endpoint can handle a certain throughput of requests per second (RPS).

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features

March 2023

16 Mar

Azure Load Testing support for JMeter 5.5

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing now uses Apache JMeter version 5.5 for running load tests.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Features

October 2022

26 Oct

Public preview: Azure Load Testing supports authenticating with client certificates

IN PREVIEW

Azure Load Testing now enables you to authenticate to application endpoints which require a client certificate for authentication.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Features

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