We performed a comparison between Apache JMeter and Spirent Avalanche based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, OpenText, Tricentis and others in Performance Testing Tools."We find the load testing feature valuable."
"The reports and analysis tools are very good. They are the solution's most valuable features."
"The recording and playback functionality is helpful."
"It's easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is being able to launch many requests and scheduling simulating human interactions with the application."
"The features that I appreciate are quite basic. It is easy to ramp up the threads and start calling the application. A lot of connectors can already be found within Apache JMeter, but we are not using the entire set because the integration between the customers and platform is based on HTTP. We are just going to produce lots of HTTP sequences."
"The reporting features are really good. There's a lot less latency than other solutions."
"It is easy to set up."
"I find network traffic testing the most valuable feature."
"Because so much is being done these days with authentication processes, a better system for either getting bearer tokens or some kind of token-based authentication prior to executing APIs would benefit the product. It is there, and you can do things. It is just not real clean at this point. There should be a better authentication process for JMeter or some automation or better guidelines for gaining and utilizing tokens on the fly."
"In terms of setup, it could be nicer, to be honest. Sometimes, I get a little bit lost."
"Self-healing and page rendering for the end-users are not available in Apache JMeter."
"The reports in Apache JMeter could improve."
"It will be much easier, and beneficial for the individual to run it on their own machines rather than having a high-end infrastructure, more CPUs, or more memory that has been consumed by Apache JMeter."
"If JMeter could provide a web version of editing, that would be good."
"The UI of the solution needs to be better. The UI takes up a lot of our bandwidth."
"If the solution was GUI based, I believe that it would be more versatile."
"The solution could improve by increasing the Gbps speeds and by having better support for storage."
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Apache JMeter is ranked 1st in Performance Testing Tools with 82 reviews while Spirent Avalanche is ranked 17th in Performance Testing Tools. Apache JMeter is rated 7.8, while Spirent Avalanche is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Apache JMeter writes "It's a free tool with a vast knowledge base, but the reporting is lackluster, and it has a steep learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spirent Avalanche writes "Quality traffic testing and is reasonably priced". Apache JMeter is most compared with BlazeMeter, Postman, Tricentis NeoLoad, Katalon Studio and OpenText LoadRunner Professional, whereas Spirent Avalanche is most compared with Ixia IxLoad and OpenText LoadRunner Professional.
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