14. Generating Report Dashboard¶
JMeter supports dashboard report generation to get graphs and
statistics from a test plan.
This chapter describes how to configure and use the generator.
14.1 Overview¶
The dashboard generator is a modular extension of JMeter. Its default behavior is to read and process samples from CSV files to generate HTML files containing graph views. It can generate the report at end of a load test or on demand.
This report provides the following metrics:
- APDEX (Application Performance Index) table that computes for every transaction the APDEX based on configurable values for tolerated and satisfied thresholds
- A request summary graph showing the Success and failed requests (Transaction Controller Sample Results are not taken into account) percentage:
- A Statistics table providing in one table a summary of all metrics per transaction including 3 configurable percentiles:
- An error table providing a summary of all errors and their proportion in the total requests:
- A Top 5 Errors by Sampler table providing for every Sampler (excluding Transaction Controller by default) the top 5 Errors:
-
Zoomable chart where you can check/uncheck every transaction to show/hide it for:
- Response times Over Time (Includes Transaction Controller Sample Results):
- Response times Percentiles Over Time (successful responses only):
- Active Threads Over Time:
- Bytes throughput Over Time (Ignores Transaction Controller Sample Results):
- Latencies Over Time (Includes Transaction Controller Sample Results):
- Connect Time Over Time (Includes Transaction Controller Sample Results):
- Hits per second (Ignores Transaction Controller Sample Results):
- Response codes per second (Ignores Transaction Controller Sample Results):
- Transactions per second (Includes Transaction Controller Sample Results):
- Response Time vs Request per second (Ignores Transaction Controller Sample Results):
- Latency vs Request per second (Ignores Transaction Controller Sample Results):
- Response time Overview (Excludes Transaction Controller Sample Results):
- Response times percentiles (Includes Transaction Controller Sample Results):
-
Times vs Threads (Includes Transaction Controller Sample Results):
In distributed mode, this graph shows a horizontal axis the number of threads for 1 server. It's a current limitation
- Response Time Distribution (Includes Transaction Controller Sample Results):
14.2 Configuring Dashboard Generation¶
Dashboard generation uses JMeter properties to customize the report. Some properties are used for general settings and others are used for a particular graph configuration or exporter configuration.
14.2.1 Requirements¶
14.2.1.1 Filtering configuration¶
Ensure you set property jmeter.reportgenerator.exporter.html.series_filter to keep only the transactions you want in the report if you don't want everything.In the example below you must only modify Search|Order, keep the rest:
jmeter.reportgenerator.exporter.html.series_filter=^(Search|Order)(-success|-failure)?$
14.2.1.2 Save Service configuration¶
To enable the generator to operate, the CSV file generated by JMeter
must include certain required data which are correct by default in the last live version of JMeter.
If you modified those settings, check that your JMeter configuration follows these settings (these are the defaults):
jmeter.save.saveservice.bytes = true # Only available with HttpClient4 #jmeter.save.saveservice.sent_bytes=true jmeter.save.saveservice.label = true jmeter.save.saveservice.latency = true jmeter.save.saveservice.response_code = true jmeter.save.saveservice.response_message = true jmeter.save.saveservice.successful = true jmeter.save.saveservice.thread_counts = true jmeter.save.saveservice.thread_name = true jmeter.save.saveservice.time = true jmeter.save.saveservice.connect_time = true jmeter.save.saveservice.assertion_results_failure_message = true # the timestamp format must include the time and should include the date. # For example the default, which is milliseconds since the epoch: jmeter.save.saveservice.timestamp_format = ms # Or the following would also be suitable # jmeter.save.saveservice.timestamp_format = yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss
14.2.1.3 Transaction Controller configuration¶
If you use Transaction Controllers, to ensure most accurate results:
- uncheck the box (this is the default configuration): Generate parent sample
- If Transaction Controller is used as a Container to represent a request for an HTML Page that will trigger Ajax calls and you only want in your report the Transaction Controller, then Right click on the node and Apply Naming Policy You will obtain this:
14.2.2 General settings¶
jmeter.reportgenerator.
Parameters
Default: "Apache JMeter Dashboard"
Default Date format is yyyyMMddHHmmss
Useful when you would like to generate a report after the load test, and the results file contains timestamp in another time zone. In this case the date format must include the time zone (zzz).
Example: dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz
Date format is defined by date_format property.
Default: not filled which means data range will be used from the beginning
Date format is defined by date_format property.
Default: not filled which means data range will be used until the end
Default: 1500
Use sample names or regular expression.
Format is sample_name:satisfaction|tolerance[;]
Values are in milliseconds.
jmeter.reportgenerator.apdex_per_transaction=sample(\\d+):1000|2000;\ samples12:3000|4000;\ scenar01-12:5000|6000
Format: Regular expression.
Default: ""
Default: temp
Default: 20000
- aggregate_rpt_pct1: Defaults to 90
- aggregate_rpt_pct2: Defaults to 95
- aggregate_rpt_pct3: Defaults to 99
You can define some overall properties which are used by the generator configuration. These properties are freely named but you should use the prefix
jmeter.reportgenerator.in order to avoid property overlap.
E.g.:
- Property definition:
-
jmeter.reportgenerator.overall_granularity=60000
- Property reference:
-
${jmeter.reportgenerator.overall_granularity}
The calculated percentiles might differ from those from the Aggregate Report in the GUI. This is because the dashboard uses a different formula to estimate the percentiles. It will be most observable when the distribution of the timing values is spread too wide. That can happen if too few samples were taken. If you want the numbers to be more or less the same as those from the Aggregate Report, you will have to switch the used estimator from LEGACY to R_3, by specifying the JMeter property backend_metrics_percentile_estimator=R_3 (this time without any prefix).
14.2.3 Graph settings¶
Each property describing a graph configuration must be prefixed with
jmeter.reportgenerator.graph.followed by the graph identifier.
14.2.3.1 General properties¶
All graphs support these properties:
Parameters
The class of the graph must extend org.apache.jmeter.report.processor.graph.AbstractGraphConsumer.
See Default graph section for more details.
14.2.3.2 Specific properties¶
Specific graph properties must use the prefix:
jmeter.reportgenerator.graph.<graph_id>.propertyThe name of the property will be mapped using camel case transformation and the matching method of the class will be called with the property value as argument.
E.g.:
jmeter.reportgenerator.graph.<graph_id>.property.set_granularity=150induces the call of the method setGranularity(150) on the instance of the graph.
14.2.4 Export settings¶
Each property describing an exporter configuration must be prefixed with
jmeter.reportgenerator.exporterfollowed by the exporter identifier.
14.2.4.1 General properties¶
All exporters support these properties:
Parameters
The class of the exporter must implement org.apache.jmeter.report.dashboard.DataExporter .
Format: regular expression. Default: ""
14.2.4.2 Specific properties¶
Specific exporter properties must use the prefix
jmeter.reportgenerator.exporter.<exporter_id>.property
Parameters
14.2.4.3 Graph properties¶
Graph properties allow exporters to overwrite some graph data.
They must use the prefix:
jmeter.reportgenerator.exporter.<exporter_id>.graph_options.<graph_id>
Parameters
14.2.4.4 Filtering mechanisms¶
Unlike the filtering in the section General properties which discards data before calculations, here the filtering is performed after the calculations and serves to simplify the final report.
The property series_filter allows to filter which series of a graph (resp. rows of a summary table) using regular expression that matches the name of the series (resp. of the row). However, even if the name of the series (resp. row) matches the filter, the setting of the other filtering properties can lead to its discarding. Conversely if there is no matching, the other properties can allow to keep it.
The following tables show how the setting of filtering properties works.
filter_only_sample_series | Graph/Summary supports controllers discrimination | The current series is a controller series | show_controllers_only | Discarded |
---|---|---|---|---|
False | False | - | False | False |
True | ||||
- | False | |||
True | ||||
True | False | False | ||
True | ||||
True | False | |||
True | ||||
True | False | - | False | |
True | ||||
- | False | |||
True | ||||
True | False | False | ||
True | True | |||
True | False | False | ||
True |
filter_only_sample_series | Graph/Summary supports controllers discrimination | Kept |
---|---|---|
False | False | False |
True | ||
True | False | True |
True | False |
- If you set the property show_controllers_only and the graph is configured to exclude controllers.
- If the property series_filter matches none series.
14.2.5 Sample configuration¶
You can copy the following configuration to your user.properties file in order to test the report generator.
# Configure this property to change the report title #jmeter.reportgenerator.report_title=Apache JMeter Dashboard # Change this parameter if you want to change the granularity of over time graphs. # Granularity must be higher than 1000 (1second) otherwise Throughput graphs will be incorrect # see Bug 60149 #jmeter.reportgenerator.overall_granularity=60000 Change this parameter if you want to change the granularity of Response time distribution # Set to 100 ms by default #jmeter.reportgenerator.graph.responseTimeDistribution.property.set_granularity=100 # Change this parameter if you want to override the APDEX satisfaction threshold. jmeter.reportgenerator.apdex_satisfied_threshold=1500 # Change this parameter if you want to override the APDEX tolerance threshold. jmeter.reportgenerator.apdex_tolerated_threshold=3000 # Sets the destination directory for generated html pages, it is better to change it for every generation # This will override the value set through -o command line option # jmeter.reportgenerator.exporter.html.property.output_dir=/tmp/test-report # Indicates which graph series are filtered (regular expression) # In the below example we filter on Search and Order samples # Note that the end of the pattern should always include (-success|-failure)?$ # Transactions per second suffixes Transactions with "-success" or "-failure" depending # on the result #jmeter.reportgenerator.exporter.html.series_filter=^(Search|Order)(-success|-failure)?$ # Indicates whether series filter apply only on sample series jmeter.reportgenerator.exporter.html.filters_only_sample_series=true
This configuration allows to generate a report where:
- Over time graphs have a time granularity equal to 1 minute.
- The satisfaction threshold for ADPEX calculation is 1 second and half.
- The tolerance threshold for ADPEX calculation is 3 seconds.
- The HTML files are generated in the directory /tmp/test-report.
- Only series which the name begins with "s0" or "s1" are shown.
- The previous filter only applies to graphs (resp. summary tables) where the series (resp. rows) match samples
14.3 Generating reports¶
The report generation can be done as a stand alone process from a sample log file or automatically after running load test.
14.3.1 Generation from an existing sample CSV log file¶
Use the following command:
jmeter -g <log file> -o <Path to output folder>
14.3.2 Generation after load test¶
Use the following command:
jmeter -n -t <test JMX file> -l <test log file> -e -o <Path to output folder>
14.3.3 Generation using GUI Tools menu¶
You can generate the HTML report using menu item Tools → Generate HTML report:
For each parameters see the following table :
Parameters
If no output directory is defined, the controller will use ${JMETER_HOME}/bin/report-output.
You then only have to click on the Generate report button and wait for an information dialog to appear
14.4 Default graphs¶
All graphs provided by this report engine are located in the package org.apache.jmeter.report.processor.graph.impl
The dashboard generator provides the following graph classes:
Graph | Description | Supports controller discrimination |
---|---|---|
ActiveThreadsGraphConsumer | This graph represents the number of active threads over time. | False |
BytesThroughputGraphConsumer | This graph represents the throughput of received and sent data over time. | False |
CodesPerSecondGraphConsumer | This graph represents the rate of response codes over time. | False |
HitsPerSecondGraphConsumer | This graph represents the rate of finished requests over time. | False |
LatencyOverTimeGraphConsumer | This graph represents the average latency time over time. | True |
ConnectTimeOverTimeGraphConsumer | This graph represents the connection time over time. | True |
LatencyVSRequestGraphConsumer | This graph represents the median and average latency time depending on the number of current requests. | False |
ResponseTimeDistributionGraphConsumer | This graph represents the distribution of the samples depending on their elapsed time and name. | True |
ResponseTimeOverTimeGraphConsumer | This graph represents the average response time over time. | True |
ResponseTimePercentilesGraphConsumer | This graph represents the percentiles of the elapsed time over time. | True |
ResponseTimePercentilesOverTimeGraphConsumer | This graph shows Min/Max and 3 percentiles response time over time. | True |
ResponseTimeVSRequestGraphConsumer | This graph represents the median and average response time depending on the number of current requests. | False |
TimeVSThreadGraphConsumer |
This graph represents the average response time
depending on the number of current active threads.
The *-aggregated series represent the average response time regardless of the number of current active threads. These series are represented by a sole point because the number of current active threads is aggregated to an average. So for these points:
|
True |
TransactionsPerSecondGraphConsumer | This graph represents the rate of transaction by sample name over time. | True |
14.5 Generating customs graphs over time¶
You can graph any sample_variable in CSV over time, you can customize your graphs
by settings their properties in the user.properties file.
They must use the id prefix custom_:
jmeter.reportgenerator.graph.custom_<your_graph_name_id>.property.<your_option_name>To specify that this graph is a customized one :
jmeter.reportgenerator.graph.custom_<your_graph_name_id>.classname=org.apache.jmeter.report.processor.graph.impl.CustomGraphConsumer
Parameters
Here is an example of a custom graph configuration that graphs the variable ts-hit:
jmeter.reportgenerator.graph.custom_testGraph.classname=org.apache.jmeter.report.processor.graph.impl.CustomGraphConsumer jmeter.reportgenerator.graph.custom_testGraph.title=Chunk Hit jmeter.reportgenerator.graph.custom_testGraph.property.set_Y_Axis=Number of Hits jmeter.reportgenerator.graph.custom_testGraph.set_X_Axis=Over Time jmeter.reportgenerator.graph.custom_testGraph.property.set_granularity=60000 jmeter.reportgenerator.graph.custom_testGraph.property.set_Sample_Variable_Name=ts-hit jmeter.reportgenerator.graph.custom_testGraph.property.set_Content_Message=Number of Hits :
14.6 Want to improve Report Dashboard ?¶
If you want to contribute new graphs or improve current ones, you can read this developer documentation.Read this documentation on contributing.