Docker image for Apache JMeter + Prometheus Listener for Jmeter

Docker image to run Jmeter exposing Prometheus Listener for Jmeter metrics.

Apache JMeter an application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance - https://jmeter.apache.org

Prometheus Listener for Jmeter an independent JMeter pluign to expose JMeter metrics to Prometheuss - https://github.com/johrstrom/jmeter-prometheus-plugin

The version number of this images is composed of two version numbers

• the first is the version of the Apache JMeter
• the second is the version of Prometheus Listener for Jmeter embedded in this docker image

Apache JMeter including + Prometheus Listener for Jmeter

chiabre/jmeter_prom_exporter

• Images of this repo on docker hub
• Repo of this images on github

This images provides:

• Standard JMeter execution passing all argumets provided to the Docker container to the JMeter process
• Prometheus Listener for Jmeter metrics

Additional info:

• JMeter arguments embedded in the image are -n (non-GUI mode) and -Dlog_level.jmeter (log level)
• Default log leve is OFF, it can be overridden using JMETER_LOG_LEVEL as env. variable (available log levels as per JMeter documentation are DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR and OFF)
• Prometheus Listener argument embedded in the image is -Jprometheus.ip=0.0.0.0 (the ip the http server will bind to, specific for container)
• JMeter jvm args can be set via JVM_ARGS env. varibale

Supported tags

• Apache JMeter 5.5 (openjdk 11) + Prometheus Listener for Jmeter 0.6.0
  • latest, 5.5-0.6.0
• Apache JMeter 5.4.1 (openjdk 11) + Prometheus Listener for Jmeter 0.6.0
  • 5.4.1-0.6.0
• Apache JMeter 5.4 (openjdk 11) + Prometheus Listener for Jmeter 0.6.0
  • 5.4-0.6.0
• Apache JMeter 5.3 (openjdk 11) + Prometheus Listener for Jmeter 0.6.0
  • 5.3-0.6.0

How to use this image

Build using

build.sh

Run using

docker run --rm --name jmeter -i -vpwd:\tmp-p 9270:9270 chiabre/jmeter_prom_exporter:5.4.1-0.6.0 -t [YOUR_SCRIPT].jmx

[YOUR_SCRIPT].jmx as to be present in the current path path, Additional JMeter or Promethues listern argument can be appended to the command.

During test execution the Prometheus JMX exporter metrics are at:

http://[JMETER]:9270/metrics/

JMeter plugins

Additional JMeter plugins can me mounted in container in the following folder /opt/apache-jmeter-${JMETER_VERSION}/lib/ext

Credits

Thanks to https://github.com/hauptmedia/docker-jmeter, https://github.com/hhcordero/docker-jmeter-server and https://github.com/justb4/docker-jmeter for providing the Dockerfiles that inspired me.