We performed a comparison between Apache JMeter and Apigee based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Apache JMeter is stable."
"Apache JMeter is quite flexible."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is free."
"It's stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature of Apache JMeter is its popularity. It is the best open-source tool with all the features needed."
"The solution is free. You don't need to worry about licensing costs."
"It gives accurate results and recommendations that we can implement to enhance the performance of websites."
"A lot of things are valuable. It is free. It has a lot of features, such as report generation and integration with CI/CD, which makes it very competitive with the other paid solutions available in the market. It is a good solution."
"The central monitoring feature is the most valuable. It also provides security for the APIs and high availability for our use cases. Apigee is the best product in the industry in comparison to other API management solutions. It helps in fast development, which is a top point. It also supports a lot of industry standards and has excellent documentation."
"The flexibility allows you to quickly run a cloud-native application architecture."
"Easy interface to monetize and deliver APIs with very easy integration for third-party development environments/delivery."
"I use it because it's simple, it automatically updates, and It hasn't given me any issues."
"Apigee has proven to be one of the best of the breed."
"It nice and easy for the clients and those using the product to access the product's help resources."
"It is easy to deploy, configure, and monitor the APA."
"Tracing in Apigee is a very good feature."
"Its reporting could be improved. There should be a better visual representation. That would be helpful for easy consumption of the reports."
"There are certain things like we can't merge custom metrics into the JMeter reports. We're limited to JMeter metrics, and other server metrics can't be integrated with JMeter dashboard. This forces us to rely on another tool."
"The reporting section of the solution can be better."
"In terms of platform support, they need to extend the support for backend platforms and more of the legacy types of platforms."
"What needs improvement in Apache JMeter is the very high load requirements when you want to scale it beyond certain thresholds. For example, small to mid-range testing is very easily done with Apache JMeter, but if you scale and increase the load, then it would be a problem because the tool consumes a lot of resources, probably because Apache JMeter provides an enriched UI experience, so it consumes a lot of memory and requires high CPU usage. This means you have to manage your infrastructure, or else you'll have high overhead expenses. As Apache JMeter is a heavyweight tool, that is an area for improvement, though I'm unsure if Apache can do something about it because it could be a result of the way it's architected. What I'd like to see from Apache JMeter in the future is for it to transition to the cloud, as a lot of cloud technologies emerge around the globe, and a lot of people prefer cloud-based solutions or cloud-native tools. Even if a company has a legacy system, it's still possible to transition to the cloud. I've worked with a company that was an on-premise company that moved to the cloud and became cloud-native. If Apache JMeter could transition to the cloud, similar to k6, then it could help lessen the intense resource consumption that's currently happening in Apache JMeter."
"Automation is difficult in JMeter."
"The memory utilization in JMeter is very poor."
"Modeling a test is difficult. If you don't have much knowledge, you won't be able to do it easily. Testing APIs is also difficult."
"I would like them to add features, such as caching and mediation policies."
"The technical support could be improved because their response time is slow."
"I don't have any notes for improvement."
"An area for improvement would be to provide more information while troubleshooting."
"iPaaS is something that we would like to see. For example, MuleSoft is kind of an integrated platform as a service (iPaaS), and it provides a lot of out-of-the-box connectors and other such things. This is where Apigee lacks. I'm not sure if that's the roadmap for Apigee, but any improvements on those lines would be helpful where things become easier to implement."
"It would be good if the Apigee management allowed us to be able to consolidate many operations into single one for the gateway functionality."
"Apigee on premise is quite complex and it is always moving faster."
"The developer portal's adoption of the OpenAPI standard needs to be improved. In the latest version of the developer portal, they have adopted the OpenAPI standard. This feature, however, can be improved by supporting more characteristics of the OpenAPI standard."
Apache JMeter is ranked 3rd in API Testing Tools with 82 reviews while Apigee is ranked 6th in API Testing Tools with 82 reviews. Apache JMeter is rated 7.8, while Apigee is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Apache JMeter writes "It's a free tool with a vast knowledge base, but the reporting is lackluster, and it has a steep learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". Apache JMeter is most compared with BlazeMeter, Postman, Tricentis NeoLoad, Katalon Studio and OpenText LoadRunner Professional, whereas Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and Layer7 API Management. See our Apache JMeter vs. Apigee report.
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