Jira Performance Testing - Available Tools
Instance Health is now available in Portfolio Insights (Beta).
Monitor the performance and security of your Jira and Confluence Data Center instances — including CVE exposure, security misconfigurations, and Apdex-based performance scores — all in one place.
📤 Can't connect your instance to Cloud? No problem — with Manual Upload, you can simply upload a support.zip file and get the full benefits of all Instance Health features, including Instance Optimization, Performance Insights, and Security Insights. No cloud connection required.
Get started → https://support.atlassian.com/portfolio-insights/docs/setting-up-data-center-for-performance-insights/
Learn about Manual Upload → https://support.atlassian.com/portfolio-insights/docs/collect-and-upload-instance-health-data-manually/
There are a number of tools available to stress and/or load an application/server. Some of these are more suitable for testing Jira than others. The following is a list of some of the tools available for you to do your own performance testing.
| Name | Type | Pros | Cons |
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| Gatling | Open Source Software |
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| nGrinder | Open Source Software |
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| JMeter | Apache Foundation (Free to use) |
|  Atlassian no longer provides new scripts with JMeter. |
| Jira Performance Tests (JPT) | Open Source Software (Free to use) |
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| Data Center App Performance Toolkit | Open Source Software (Free to use) |  A detailed step-by-step online guide. Community Slack channel for support in case of any questions. | Requires users be familiar with AWS |
We encourage you to independently research and decide on the tool you choose use in testing your Jira instance. Depending on the experimental design and outcomes you need, one tool may be a better alternative over another. Overall, Atlassian recommends Gatling as a good tool to evaluate for you to do performance testing: it provides thorough documentation and tutorials, simplicity compared to other tools, and comprehensive reporting. Gatling was also one of the tools featured in an Atlassian Summit presentation regarding performance testing in Jira by JP Morgan Chase.
The above guidance is presented on an as-is basis and does not imply Atlassian will support customers in using these tools. All support for using these tools to load and/or stress test Atlassian products should come from the tools' communities and/or the tools' vendors.