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Since JMeter 2.13 Backend Listener has been available to create real time graph of JMeter Test. Following tutorial explain the entire process in detail. At the end of this tutorial you would be able to create JMeter Live Test Result dashboard similar to following - This tutorial borrows information from many sources and my own experiments with JMeter live reporting dashboard. I have added source of information wherever applicable But before we can build such a snazzy JMeter Live Reporting dashboard we need to understand two more components - influxDB (a time series database) and Grafana Dashboard What is Time Series Database? A time series is a sequence of data points , typically consisting of successive measurements made over a time interval . Examples of time series are ocean tides, counts of sunspots, and the daily closing value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. And we are interested in load test which also generates time series data points. source -

As the saying goes, there are no best practices or probably in context. Following are some guidelines which I followed when working on load testing with JMeter. Some of these guidelines/practices are not limited to only JMeter and can be applied to load testing in general, So let’s begin - Number of Test Runs  -  The worse thing you can do with load test is to conduct test only once. Given that your test environment would depends on many factors, it is wise to conduct load test more than once to verify consistency of results. If test results have more than 5~10% discrepancy then it is sign of inconsistent system. Figure out the cause of problem first and fix it. State of system  -  If you are conducting load test consecutively then beware that each consecutive run would leave system in a state which would have memory, db etc resources utilized. Probably your goal is to run each test on a clean state of system. Identify client limitations  -  Many a times you would enc