1) Ease in terms of configuring API load test

2) Gatling Enterprise Edition - intuitive interface and ability to simulate package with varying usage

3) Extensive reporting and ease to understand data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1) Unable to simulate ramp-down simulations in a staircase pattern.

2) For example, settings like JMeter's stepping up thread group are not available.

3) Scripting with multiple file upload/download scenarios is tricky and not comprehensive.

4) Challenges with Scala code manipulation while scripting complex scenarios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using Gatling Enterprise is quick and simple. Getting thousands of websocket connections in a matter of seconds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Documentation

- Client certificate support for mtls

- Initial set-up could be smoother Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like the most about Gatling is you can easily customize or create your own function. It has many built-in functions, but you can build your own to achieve your requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the programming language that it uses to build the test cases. For me Java is a difficult PL and if you don't have a background in programming, then it would be hard for you to learn using Gatling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gatling is one of the most wonderful opensource tool for testing solution the best part is the performance testing it does. We can modify the load tests using some another IDEs like VS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Except the fact that we need to have prior knowledge of scripting everything is amazing about Gatling, also we need to involve some third parties for integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gatling support multiple protocol such as http, jdbc and MQ. It is rich in programming language and has recently added Java in the list along with kotlin and scala. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gatling does not support video streaming protocol, Citrix protocol and does not support GUI support for the testing. It has limitation of distributed system in open source version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to do load testing in a breezy way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's nothing that comes to the top of my mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our team has been using Gatling for enterprise application load testing from last 6 months, and its been very easy to configure, run , deploy tool.

We have issues with scalability using JMeter, however with Gatling, we can easily run more than 20k users load tests with minimal investment on infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gatling sometimes do not have visual representation of web pages when analyzing results from log. Hence, its good to have .html page log created post script run , to identify the page level data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using Gatling since 1.5 years in multiple projects. As it consumes less resources using Gatling for API Performance testing is super efficient.

One can also use it for JDBC and MQTT protocol. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While using Gatling for Application performance testing, I have faced multiple challenges like extracting value from headers, Authentication process and Coorelation is bit tricky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Open source, relatively easy to use, online tutorial, documentation is easy to read Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User UI can be improved, lack of more complex examples in the doc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gatling offers an intuitive web interface and provides real-time statistics that can be used to analyze and monitor the performance of the application under test. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While gatling is great software, as per the review , it is relatively easy to set up and use; it does have a learning curve, especially for those unfamiliar with Scala or the underlying technologies it uses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.