How do I conduct scalability testing with TabJolt

Before you setup a Tableau Server, you have a lot of questions

• Do I have enough servers for my users?
• How will my user mix (viewer/interactor) impact my server capacity planning?
• How many VizQLs do I need for my user community?
• Can I configure 8 VizQL instances on a single server?
• …… to name a few.

The idea behind this post is to guide you on how to do some of your own tests to get some of the answers

So, lets get started and understand a few things about scalability tests

The idea is to understand how many users of a particular type of load can a server support

Now, since I currently work for Tableau and have had exposure to some of their tools, I used one of their tools (TabJolt) to conduct some of the tests

The rest of the article follows an approach. You can most certainly follow the same approach and use a completely different tool

Getting Started with TabJolt 

I don’t plan to re-invent the wheel so if you haven’t even started with TabJolt, please refer to this great blog on TabJolt

How do I start?

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