How to install JMeter on Amazon Linux
Hi Geeks, This is my 3rd article related to DevOps. This article walks you through the steps of installing JMeter on Amazon Linux
pre-requisites
In order to install Jmeter, you need to have the Java runtime environment installed on your instance. You can check whether it’s installed by using the java -version command.
If Java is not installed on your instance, please follow the steps in the following article
Installing Jmeter
Here are the steps to install Jmeter:
1) Open your favourite browser and go to https://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi
2) Right-click on the Jmeter .tgz file and copy the link to the binaries.
3) Login to the instance and run the command wget https://dlcdn.apache.org//jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-5.6.tgz to download Jmeter to the instance.
4) Extract the Jmeter archive using the command tar -xf apache-jmeter-5.6.tgz
5) Navigate to the bin folder inside the Jmeter folder using the command cd apache-jmeter-5.6/bin
6) Check whether the examples are in the example folder using the command ls examples/
7) Test whether Jmeter is working fine by running the CSVSample.jmx example test using the command ./jmeter.sh -n -t examples/CSVSample.jmx
Kudos…! 🎉 Now you have successfully installed and tested Jmeter on your Amazon Linux
That’s it for this quick tutorial. If you have any questions regarding this, please leave a comment or contact me on LinkedIn.
Thanks for reading..! Happy debugging..!
