User Guide
General overview
Apache JMeter panel is divided into four sections:
- URL section contains the URL that will be measured. For HTTP URLs, the GET method
is used by default, while by checking the Post checkbox, the POST method is used
and the string placed in the post text field will be URLencoded and posted to the
specified URL.
- Threads section tells the thread status of the sampling process. The slider is
used to select the number of concurrently running threads. Each thread correspond to a led
sign that will turn red if idle, green
if running and gray if disabled.
- Timers section selects one of the timer plugins. The timer is responsible to
create the load statistics by changing sampling rate as well as sampling distribution in
time. See the timer section for more information about which are
available, or the source code you want to add your own timer plugin.
- Visualisers selects one of the visualisation plugins. The visualiser is
responsible to show and/or analyse data collected by the sampling process. See the visualisers section for more information about which are
available, or the source code if you want to add your own plugin.
Timer plugins overview
- Constant Timer that always gives the same delay between two sampling processes.
- Uniform Random Timer that gives a uniformly distributed statistics of delays with
selectable average delay and variation range.
- Gaussian Random Timer that gives a gaussian distributed statistics of delays with
selectable average delay and variation range.
Visualiser plugins overview
- Text Visualiser shows raw samples using a scrollabe text area.

- Scrolling Bar Visualiser shows raw samples using scrolling bars. The slider is
used to scale the bar size

- Statistical Analysis Visualiser shows the autoscaling dot plot of time samples
together with their average and standard deviation.

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