Alibaba Cloud releases performance test PTS 2.0: low-cost, high-efficiency, multi-scenario stress test, a powerful tool for business stability assurance

With the advent of 618, the brand live broadcast room during peak hours will simultaneously accommodate millions of people to send bullet screens, grab goods, and grab red envelopes online. Such a large user volume, high-frequency interaction, and pulse traffic scenarios are all for the back-end server. It's no small challenge. In order to ensure online stability and a high-quality interactive experience, stress testing through the Performance Testing Service (PTS) has become the first choice for many platforms and brands.

Alibaba Cloud PTS has been tempered by the Double 11 event for many years, and it is an extension of Alibaba's full-link stress test. Through scaling and elasticity, PTS can easily initiate millions of concurrent traffic, eliminating the cost of machines and labor; through the initiation of traffic in global regions and precise control of traffic models, it can truly simulate the source of user traffic. Complex user interactions can be easily simulated with features such as 0-coded scene orchestration, traffic recording, and more. After the stress test, the rich monitoring and log data, as well as the problem diagnosis function, help businesses to quickly find bottlenecks and improve system performance and stability.

On May 26, Alibaba Cloud Performance Test PTS 2.0 was released, featuring new billing, rich features, and ultimate experience. The new billing model greatly reduces the cost of pressure testing for users. It only costs 29 yuan for a VPC intranet stress test of 100,000 VUMs, a minimum of 199 yuan for a public network stress test of 50,000 concurrency, and a minimum of 6,200 yuan for a million concurrency. PTS further expands the customer interface. Users can initiate pressure testing on the cloud in the local JMeter tool through the JMeter plug-in. They can also use OpenAPI and the pressure measurement data open function to integrate the PTS capabilities into the self-built pressure measurement platform and CICD process. Efficiently test business systems. PTS also supports streaming media, MQTT, RocketMQ, Kafka, JDBC, Redis, Dubbo and other protocols. Users can use live video, IoT, applet and other scenarios, as well as message middleware, database, microservices and other self-built components or Pressure testing of cloud products. In addition to new users starting from 0.99 yuan, the conference also provided full discount vouchers for three steps of full 100-50, full 1000-200, full 3500-800, etc., to further help enterprises reduce the cost of use.

A make-up brand with over 10 million followers on the entire network faced great pressure to ensure system stability in the past when it faced a big promotion. Third-party interfaces and some slow SQL could lead to serious online failures; resources and daily There is a large difference in resources, and frequent capacity expansion and shrinkage is required; in addition, the work of stress testing and system capacity evaluation is very frequent, which needs to be supported by a healthy and normalized mechanism; in order to solve these problems and support the rapid development of business, customers make full use of PTS. The system's single-machine capability and overall capacity are evaluated, and the business volume that can be carried by a single machine and the overall business volume can be predicted in advance, and reasonable resource planning and cost forecasting can be made for future business promotion needs.

In order to reach more users and enhance brand influence, a training company sponsors CCTV Spring Festival Gala in the form of exclusive cooperation. However, during the preparation of the event, customers encountered difficulties such as large scale, large traffic, and short time. Alibaba Cloud helps customers quickly build a cloud-native platform to support the Spring Festival Gala activities, and has the characteristics of millions of concurrent events, tens of millions of QPS, stable, efficient, and rapid construction. In the end, it helped the client to implement a large-scale project in a new scenario that should have taken half a year in one and a half months. The support capability of the technical platform has been increased by 10 times+, and the internal influence of the client's technical team has been enhanced. Through the promotion of CCTV Spring Festival Gala, customers have entered the national audience's field of vision, setting a new benchmark for the training industry.

A banking institution holds a mobile APP live event, which needs to support millions of users online at the same time, and has frequent interactions such as chatting, likes, and red envelopes, and has extremely high requirements for system performance, stability, and emergency response. Customers use PTS's traffic recording and multi-protocol stress measurement capabilities to accurately simulate the online operations of mobile phone users. Its powerful pressure and speed capabilities can simulate end-user traffic sources and models. This helps customers accurately plan system capacity, rehearse possible emergencies, and ensure the stability of the entire system. At the same time, PTS greatly shortens the preparation time of the pressure measurement engine, and the time to pull up the engine that simulates millions of users online is shortened to 40 seconds; during the pressure measurement process, it provides a variety of pressure measurement flow monitoring methods to help locate problems; the end of the pressure measurement After that, the pressure measurement flow is stopped immediately, and multi-dimensional and multi-angle pressure measurement reports and problem diagnosis tools are provided, which greatly improves the pressure measurement efficiency. PTS helped the client to successfully complete the live broadcast event, with over 2 million views and over 17 million likes that night.

In the PTS 2.0 version released this time, the completely self-developed stress measurement engine has better performance than the traditional thread model in the implementation of the concurrency model; it supports the throughput configuration of the API dimension, which is more refined than the open source tool, and can accurately simulate the traffic funnel model. ;Compatible with JMeter fully, supports customization in 22 regions around the world; supports VPC intranet pressure test, can quickly open up the pressure machine and the user VPC network during the pressure test to ensure the smooth network of the intranet pressure test; For Java applications, PTS provides The problem diagnosis tool based on Java Agent can automatically obtain second-level monitoring of the application, API, and machine dimensions by simply mounting the probe on the Java application. It saves a lot of time to troubleshoot problems and is a "sharp tool" for locating problems.

Now, Alibaba Cloud provides entry-level performance testing service for 0.99 yuan. You can get started quickly without self-developed stress testing engine, 0 coding scenario arrangement, dynamic second-level traffic adjustment, four easy steps to achieve millions of concurrent stress testing!

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