How to Install & Set Up Apache JMeter

Install Apache JMeter — the long-standing GUI-driven load and functional testing tool — and run a test plan from the command line.

Prerequisites

Ubuntu / Debian

sudo apt install -y default-jdk

RHEL / CentOS Stream / Fedora

sudo dnf install -y java-17-openjdk

download JMeter (any distro — it's a plain tarball)

curl -LO https://dlcdn.apache.org/jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-5.6.3.tgz
tar xzf apache-jmeter-5.6.3.tgz
cd apache-jmeter-5.6.3

terminal

./bin/jmeter

Build and debug test plans in the GUI, but always run real load tests in non-GUI mode — the GUI itself consumes significant resources.

terminal

./bin/jmeter --version
./bin/jmeter -n -t test-plan.jmx -l results.jtl -e -o ./report

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