KIBANA_CI.md

Kibana performance testing on CI

Overview

At the moment we got 2 ways to do performance testing: branch testing and cloud testing

Branch testing

Use it to test your feature branch and compare results with master.

Start a new run:

• go to load-testing job
• click 'Build with Parameters'
• enter your github username & branch name, simulation classes, uncheck 'INGEST RESULTS' if you don't need it in Kibana stats
• click 'Build'

Job will do this for you:

• build Kibana from branch source code
• start Kibana and ES using FTR
• start Metricbeat monitoring
• run performance simulations
• ingest results and monitoring stats to Kibana stats

Cloud testing

Use it to test Kibana on Cloud Staging as a part of new deployment.

Start a new run:

• go to load-testing-cloud job
• click 'Build with Parameters'
• enter your stack version, simulation classes, uncheck 'INGEST RESULTS' if you don't need it in Kibana stats
• click 'Build'

You can use existing deployment config files to define your desired stack setup or create add a new one to kibana-load-testing/config/deployment/ path and specify it in 'DEPLOY_CONFIG' input field

Job will do this for you:

• create a new deployment
• run performance simulations
• delete deployment
• ingest results and to Kibana stats

Scheduled pipelines

• branch testing
  • when: daily
  • what: 7.x, master
• cloud testing
  • when: daily
  • what: latest 7.x and 8.0 snapshots

Test results

Open finished job run and click 'Google Cloud Storage Upload Report' You will find archive with html reports

Go to Kibana-Stats cluster and open 'Load Testing' space to access test results.