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You can create user scenarios in JMeter. It is manual work to setup but it works fine. You can add think times, randomization, scaling of number of users, use scripts to generate input data, etc. It's not a simple tool, but it's not a simple problem to solve either.

I never needed WebSocket testing in JMeter but my quick Google shows that it exists.

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Can confirm, I've made some pretty extensive scenarios with JMeter and while not exactly fun to do it works great. We integrated "normal" requests with WebSockets in the scenarios.

Yeah was waiting to see a Jmeter comment. Great tool that, when implemented as part of a larger tool stack, makes performance testing very doable.

And I think it's a pretty stupid simple tool compared to some of the DIY alternatives people are mentioning here.

If you do happen to max out the hosting server you can run Jmeter in a distributed fashion as well.

>Great tool that, when implemented as part of a larger tool stack, makes performance testing very doable.

In the past, I've leveraged JMeter along with other tools at the same time. i.e. Using JMeter to create a baseline level of requests and then using something else to fill in any gaps to make the load feel a little more "real" or to test specific scenarios that were difficult to accomplish w/JMeter.

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