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January 2024

Jan 29

Generally available: Up to 50 test fail criteria in Azure Load Testing

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now specify up to 50 test criteria in your load test.

  • Features
Jan 11

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
Jan 9

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
Jan 9

Azure Load Testing supports fetching secrets from Azure Key Vault with access restrictions (private AKV)

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now use secrets from an Azure Key Vault with access restrictions in Azure Load Testing.

  • Services

November 2023

Nov 14

General availability: Start and stop load (Azure Load Testing) faults in Azure Chaos Studio

NOW AVAILABLE

Add a previously created load test (from Azure Load Testing) to your chaos experiment. Choose when exactly in your chaos experiment you would like to start and stop load.

  • Azure Chaos Studio
  • Services
  • Features

September 2023

Sep 28

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
Sep 12

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
Sep 12

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
Sep 7

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
Sep 7

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

Aug 15

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
Aug 3

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
Aug 3

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
Aug 3

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

Jun 16

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
  • SDK and Tools
  • Retirements
Jun 13

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
Jun 13

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
Jun 13

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

Mar 16

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

February 2023

Feb 1

General Availability: Microsoft Azure Load Testing is now Generally Available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing is now Generally Available. Get started with Azure Load Testing today.

  • Services

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