Stress Testing Metrics

Metrics are basically key performance indicators. Most commonly used metrics are mentioned below:

1. Average transaction response time

It is the Average time taken to perform transactions during each second of the scenario run.

2. Total transactions per second

The total number of transactions that passed, the total number of transactions that failed and the total number of transactions that stopped during the scenario run.

3. Transactions per second

For each transaction, the number of times it passed, failed or stopped during each second of the scenario run.

4. Transaction response time (under load)

Transaction times relative to the number of vusers at any given point during the scenario run.

5. Errors per second

Average number of errors that occur during each second of the scenario run.

6. Hits per second

Number of HTTP requests made by Vusers to the web server during each second of the scenario run.