Standalone Health Checks - server

Minimum Interval - The lowest allowed interval between checks:
Pro: 60
Business: 15
Enterprise: 10
This is the interval in the Documentation. Is it in seconds?

Yes this is in seconds. Just be careful if you're configuring that for multiple domains on the same server. We've mini-DDOSed ourselves after misconfiguring the health checks. Turns out that the more regions you have, the more checks happen from each region - these can be more frequent than the interval configured.
Check this out.

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Uptime of K8s Service over a period of time - Prometheus?

What is the simplest way to find out the Availability of a K8s service over a period of time, lets say 24h. Should I target a pod or find a way to calculate service reachability
I'd recommend to not approach it from a binary (is it up or down) but from a "how long does it take to serve requests" perspective. In other words, phrase your availability in terms of SLOs. You can get a very nice automatically generated SLO-based alter rules from PromTools. One concrete example rule from there, showing the PromQL part:
1 - (
sum(rate(http_request_duration_seconds_bucket{job="prometheus",le="0.10000000000000001",code!~"5.."}[30m]))
/
sum(rate(http_request_duration_seconds_count{job="prometheus"}[30m]))
)
Above captures the ratio of how long it took the service to serve non-500 (non-server errors, that is, assumed good responses) in less than 100ms to overall responses over the last 30 min with http_request_duration_seconds being the histogram, capturing the distribution of the requests of your service.

Limit 100 requests per min setup in Jmeter is not working

I have tried couple of suggestions as mentioned in other sites on how to configure/Limit 100 requests per minute for a given REST endpoint for a single user. its not working !
Can someone please guide me to setup on how to limit a 100 requests for a given REST endpoint?
Thankyou in Advance!!
The easiest way is adding Constant Throughput Timer however be aware that it's precise enough on minute level so you will have to let your test to run for at least a minute before you start seeing the rate limiting, if your test throughput is higher during the first minute - consider playing with ramp-up.
If you have only 1 user and your test runs for a minute or less you will have to consider the following options:
Precise Throughput Timer
Throughput Shaping Timer
the latter one is extremely easy to use and it provides visual way of defining the target throughput:

Stackdriver scheduled uptime check

I would like to run uptime checks using Stackdriver only when my google cloud instance is running (it is service that only runs a few hours every day). Is that possible?
No, Stackdriver uptime check run according to your check interval "Check every" field.
You can choose between 1, 5, 10, or 15 minutes. For example, choosing 5 minutes will cause each geographic location to attempt to reach your service once in every 5 minute period. Using the default six locations, and checking every 5 minutes, your service sees an average of 1.2 requests per minute. Checking every 1 minute, your service sees an average of 6 requests per minute.
See the documentation Here

Stability testing of REST API

I have a registration REST API which i want to test as -
Register 15000 users and pound the server with repeated incident reports (varying traffic with max being 100 per minute, min being 1 per 24 hrs and avg being one per minute ) over a period of 48 hours.
Which tool can I use to test stability of my REST API?
For pounding the server with incidents over a period of time, you can use http://runscope.com/ .
It is helpful for testing APIs. You can just trigger events in runscope over a period time or schedule it to hit the server as required.

How to test the page loading time with Gatling

For example- I need to check that for 1000 users it responds in 3 seconds.
Is the number of users and response times configurable?
This answer targets Gatling 2.
You can set the target number of users by configuring the "injection profile" of your simulation:
setUp(scn.inject(atOnceUsers(1000)) // To start all users at the same time
setUp(scn.inject(rampUsers(1000) over (30 seconds) // To start gradually, over 30 seconds
For more information, please refer to the injection DSL documentation
If you want to check that all your users responds in less than 3 seconds, one way to ensure this is Gatling's assertions:
setUp(...).assertions(global.responseTime.max.lessThan(3000))
If this assertion fails, meaning at least one user responded in more than 3 seconds, Gatling will clearly indicate the failure after your simulation is completed.