{"id":933,"date":"2014-07-08T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2014\/07\/08\/load-testing-with-visual-studio-online\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:48:08","slug":"load-testing-with-visual-studio-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/load-testing-with-visual-studio-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Load Testing with Visual Studio Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check for performance issues on your web site before they impact your customers. Perhaps you expect an increased user load from a marketing campaign. Use cloud-based load testing with Visual Studio Online to test if your application can handle all the new users. With cloud-based load testing it&rsquo;s easy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\">No need to set up your own machines and resources. You specify the load that you need and it is generated for you.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Get insights into your application by monitoring performance when you run your load tests.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Get 20,000 user minutes free every month to run load tests in the cloud.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watch a short video about load testing with Visual Studio Online<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/Visual-Studio\/Launch-2013\/qe103\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/07\/4846.video_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"139\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Highlights<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">a<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;font-size: small\"><span style=\"line-height: 107%\"><strong>Latest feature addition<\/strong>: Load testing with Visual Studio Online&nbsp;integrates&nbsp;with Application Insights&nbsp;to get the&nbsp;application performance data during the load run. It&#8217;s now much easier to see what&#8217;s happening inside your application during the load run and&nbsp;analyze the root cause of performance bottlenecks.&nbsp; Read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=404320\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;font-size: small\"><span style=\"line-height: 107%\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">a<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;font-size: small\"><strong>Free usage limits and applicable charges: <\/strong>All Visual Studio Online accounts&nbsp;will get 20,000 virtual user minutes free per month.&nbsp;For example,&nbsp;if your load test consists of 250 concurrent virtual users, you will be able to run this test for a total of 60 minutes per month. If you require more resources, you can enable the <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=404322\">billing<\/a> for your Visual Studio Online account.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: large\">References<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"width: 687px;height: 163px\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"color: #800080;font-size: medium;background-color: #ffffff\">Documentation <\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #800080;font-size: medium;background-color: #ffffff\">Useful Links<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #800080;font-size: medium;background-color: #ffffff\">Case Studies<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=404317\">Step by Step Guide to get Started<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=404321\">FAQs &amp; Troubleshooting guide<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=404323\">Eovendo<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=404318\">Create load test<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=404322\">Billing &amp; Pricing<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=404324\">TFS<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=404319\">Analyze your test results<\/a><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=404325\">Norad Tracks Santa<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=404320\">Monitor Application performance data during the load run<\/a><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check for performance issues on your web site before they impact your customers. Perhaps you expect an increased user load from a marketing campaign. Use cloud-based load testing with Visual Studio Online to test if your application can handle all the new users. With cloud-based load testing it&rsquo;s easy: No need to set up your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops","category-testing"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Check for performance issues on your web site before they impact your customers. Perhaps you expect an increased user load from a marketing campaign. Use cloud-based load testing with Visual Studio Online to test if your application can handle all the new users. 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