JMeter SLA Report

1. Introduction

The 'jmeter-sla-report' is a replacement for the existing XSLT-based reporting backend when running JMeter from the command line to solve the following problems

Using XSLT does not scale for large JTL files therefore a StAX parser is used
Merge multiple JTL files into one report when multiple JMeter instances are used
Often you are interested in the distribution of the response time using a logarithmic scale
Adding a generic way to capture the JMeter configuration data
Group error messages in the SLA report

This component was created when testing a large application using JMeter (see http://people.apache.org/~sgoeschl/presentations/apachecon-2011/jmeter.pdf)

2. Getting Started

In order to generate your first JMeter SLA reports run the following commands

mvn clean install
ant test

This builds the 'jmeter-sla-report' library and generates three SLA reports using

JMeter JTL files (aka XML)
JMeter CSV file

whereas the following JMeter SLA reports are generated

./target/report-xml-success.html
./target/report-csv-success.html
./target/report-xml-failure.html

3. ANT Integration

The following snippet is used to generate the JMeter SLA report

<!-- setup the class path to run the report -->
<path id="project.class.path">
  <fileset dir="${basedir}/lib">
    <include name="*.jar"/>
  </fileset>    
  <fileset dir="${basedir}/target">
    <include name="*.jar"/>
  </fileset>        
</path>       

<target name="report-xml-success" description="Report with XML JMeter file">
  <mkdir dir="${project.build.directory}"/>
  <java classname="org.apache.jmeter.extra.report.sla.Main" classpathref="project.class.path">
    <arg value="${project.build.directory}/report-xml-success.html"/>        
    <arg value="${basedir}/src/test/data/success.jtl"/>
    <sysproperty key="jmeter.foo" value="foo"/>
    <sysproperty key="jmeter.bar" value="bar"/>
  </java>        
</target>

Let's dissect the ANT calls

setting up an Ant path variable to pull in all required libraries
invoking "org.apache.jmeter.extra.report.sla.Main" to generate a report which requires two parameters
- the HTML report file to be generated
- one or more JTL files written by JMeter
the remaining "sysproperty" entries prefixed with "jmeter" are added to the reporting section - any system property prefixed with "jmeter" is added to the report automatically so can determine the configuration used to run JMeter (or add any other relevant information)

3. The Implementation

A quick overview of the implementation

The JTL file is parsed using a StaX parser which extracts one 'httpSample' after another
The 'httpSample' is used to feed JAMon (see http://jamonapi.sourceforge.net) which calculates the SLA related data
When the parsing is finished all the data is pulled from JAMon and written to HTML file with embedded CSS

4. Current State

Tried to contribute it to Apache JMeter to no avail
Dumped it on GitHub since this is a much better place than my local hard disk
Collected a few patches from the Vienna Hackergarden (thanks a lot)
Licenced under ASL 2.0
Feel free to use and/or contribute

arustamov / jmeter-sla-report