Load testing and performance testing guides
Practical guides to setting up performance tests well: which test answers which question, what p95 means, how to find capacity, how to bring it into the pipeline. Each guide explains the general method and ends with how to do the same in Spitfire.
Guides
Load, stress, spike and soak testing: the differencesWhich test answers which question, how to shape the load, how long to run it.What is p95? p95, p99 and latency percentilesWhy the average misleads, how to read percentiles, how to write a threshold.Breakpoint testing: finding the breaking pointClimbing the load in steps to find the rate where the system misses its criteria.Performance testing in CI/CDLoad tests in the pipeline: when, how much, which thresholds; exit codes.
Feature pages
Self-hosted load testingData in your network, offline license, runners on your infrastructure.OpenTelemetry: closer to the root causeYour traces, metrics and logs aligned with the load stages.Synthetic monitoringYour load test scenario on production, on an interval.Importing JMeter plansWhat a .jmx file converts to, and what it does not.Importing k6 scriptsWhat a .js script converts to, and what it does not.Load test examplesReady-made tests to download and open.
For installing, integrations, single sign-on and updates: the installation guide.
Spitfire installs on Docker or Kubernetes with one command; every testing feature and protocol is open in the free edition.