Performance Testing on Windows Azure

Question

Hi,

Can we perform Performance Testing of Applications on Azure?

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Thanks, Sonia

Answer 1

Hello, this depends on what you need. For example, the normal web/load testing feature provided by Visual Studio can also be used with Windows Azure (both local and cloud). Those testings can help you to see how responsive your service is when serving a certain concurrent requests.

But if you mean the profiling feature of Visual Studio, currently we do not support it. But you can first deploy the application to local IIS, and then do a profiling on it. This should cover most features in your project.

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Answer 2

Hi Yi-Lun-Lo,

We wanted to load test our application deployed on cloud and thereby monitor various perf counters such as CPU, memory usage on the server the application is deployed on.
Is that possible ?

Can we load test a cloud application and monitor its counters on the server?

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Thanks, Sonia

Answer 3

Hi Sonia,

The client side should the be same as any testing.

The upcoming modifications to configuration/logging management tools in Azure are promising to include performance counters, so you may have to wait for these until doing full load testing.

BWC;

Answer 4

Thanks bwc for your reply :)

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Thanks, Sonia