Changelog 2024.05

Loadster Monitoring Is Back

We’ve brought back Loadster’s Site & API Monitoring capability, so you can run Loadster scripts on a regular schedule and get notified if your site goes down or anything breaks! Site monitoring goes hand in hand with load testing since it allows you to quickly detect and respond to any problems with your site.

Previously, site monitoring was only available in Loadster’s companion app, Speedway. Although it was easy to jump between Loadster for load testing and Speedway for monitoring, it was never quite as convenient as having everything in one place. Most of our Speedway users are also Loadster users anyway.

We will continue to maintain Speedway for the foreseeable future for our customers who are using it for their monitoring, but going forward we recommend Loadster for both monitoring and load testing.

We won’t leave anyone behind! Please contact help@loadster.com if you have questions or concerns about the transition.

Slack Integration Improvements

Loadster’s Slack integration now lets you designate which Slack channels should receive each type of notification. Now if you’d like to send your monitoring alerts to a different channel than your load test notifications, you can! You can also send notifications to multiple Slack channels or disable certain types of notifications altogether.

You can connect or manage your Slack integration on the Integrations page of your Loadster dashboard.

Other Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Fixed an occasional under-count of errors in a load test with groups that end early.
• Fixed page scrolling weirdness on navigation.
• Improved naming for duplicated projects and other items.
• Fixed issues with rate limiting when loading a test report on a recently completed test.
• Improved transactional email reliability.
• Fixed visual text wrapping issues with datasets.