To quickstart, just check everything is hanging together. Copy across the jars mongometer.jar lives in out/artifacts Ensure you have mongometer.jar and the mongo java driver jar in /usr/lib/jmeter/2.8/lib/ext It's a java7, 64-bit linux build (just in case you have any issues) Start up mongodb /usr/lib/mongodb/2.0.6/bin/mongod --dbpath /data/db --logpath /data/db/mongod.log Start up a shell $cd /usr/lib/mongodb/2.0.6/bin/ $./mongo Set the logging level in jmeter.properties #log_level.jan=DEBUG log_level.jan.mongometer.config=DEBUG #log_level.jan.mongometer.mongo=DEBUG #log_level.jan.mongometer.sampler=DEBUG Inside /usr/lib/jmeter/2.8/lib/ext/ApacheJMeter_core.jar Edit this /org/apache/jmeter/resources/messages.properties Change Line 682 from property_tool_tip={0}\: {1} to property_tool_tip=<html><b>{0}</b><br><br>{1}</html> Start up jmeter /usr/lib/jmeter/2.8/bin/jmeter.sh Add a ThreadGroup Add MongoDB Sampler to the ThreadGroup Add View Result Tree Listener to ThreadGroup Server Address List 127.0.0.1 Database jmeter Example Script Insert db.jmeter.insert({"jan":"the great"}) Count function() {return db.jmeter.find().count();} Find function() {return db.jmeter.find().toArray();} Hit Go In the shell >use jmeter >db.jmeter.find()