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JMeter

Apache JMeter open-source load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services.

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Introduction

An Open Source Java application designed to measure performance and load test applications.

The latest GitHub release listed on 25 Oct 2026 was rel/v5.6.3, published 2024-01-09.

Features

These items are quoted from public documentation fetched on 25 Oct 2026. Taken from repository README headings.

  1. What Is It?: Apache JMeter can measure performance and load test static and dynamic web applications.
  2. IDE: Fully featured Test IDE that allows fast Test Plan recording (from Browsers or native applications), building and debugging.
  3. Command Line: Command-line mode (Non GUI / headless mode) to load test from any Java compatible OS (Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, …)
  4. Correlation: Easy correlation through ability to extract data from most popular response formats, HTML, JSON, XML or any textual format
  5. Highly Extensible Core: - Pluggable Samplers allow unlimited testing capabilities. - Scriptable Samplers (JSR223-compatible languages like Groovy). - Several load statistics can be chosen with pluggable tiers. - Data analysis and visualization plugins allow great extensibility and personalization. - Functions can be used to provide dynamic…
  6. The Latest Version: Details of the latest version can be found on the JMeter Apache Project web site

Pros

Points stated in the public sources fetched on 25 Oct 2026:

  1. Published license: The GitHub repository lists Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0).
  2. Repository topics: The repository’s GitHub topics include java, performance, test.

Cons

The pages fetched on 25 Oct 2026 do not publish a limitations list. That absence is not evidence that the tool has no drawbacks. Current issues are tracked at https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues.

The repository README includes this example (from “Release builds”):

systemProp.http.proxyHost=proxy.example.invalid
systemProp.http.proxyPort=8080
systemProp.http.proxyUser=your_user_name
systemProp.http.proxyPassword=your_password
systemProp.https.proxyHost=proxy.example.invalid
systemProp.https.proxyPort=8080
systemProp.https.proxyUser=your_user_name
systemProp.https.proxyPassword=your_password

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Pricing

The fetched text says:

An Open Source Java application designed to measure performance and load test applications.

  • Easy Continuous Integration via 3rd party Open Source libraries for Maven, Gradle and Jenkins.

No separate price list was found on 25 Oct 2026.

The fetched pages do not name a target audience. Decide fit from the official description and the feature list above.

Conclusion

JMeter is summarized by its public description as: “Apache JMeter open-source load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services.”.

The latest GitHub release listed was rel/v5.6.3, published 2024-01-09.

This page was rebuilt on 25 Oct 2026 from jmeter.apache.org, github.com. It keeps only what those pages stated. Confirm the current product, license, and price on the official site before you adopt it.