Dedicated IPs

If you need to connect from behind the corporate firewall, you need the BlazeMeter engines to have dedicated (static) IP addresses. You can assign dedicated IPs to your BlazeMeter engines. Each IP address belongs to a specific region, for instance, US East (Virginia), EU West (London), or any other Google Cloud location.

When you run tests in BlazeMeter using dedicated IPs, a specific pool of IP addresses within a selected region is reserved for your workgroup. When you initiate a test with dedicated IPs, BlazeMeter assigns an IP from this pool to execute the test. Once the test is complete, the IP is released back into the pool for future use. If multiple tests from the same workspace and region use dedicated IPs, they may end up using the same IP address, even if the tests run on different engines. This reuse of IPs is not an issue as long as the tests are not executed simultaneously.

Purchase Dedicated IPs

Dedicated IPs are only available for Enterprise plans, and are not available to Free, Basic, or Pro plans. For more details, please contact your BlazeMeter account manager or send an email to sales@blazemeter.com.

Typically, you purchase one IP address for every engine on your plan. The purchased IP addresses are reserved exclusively per customer.

Examples:

  • 20 engines plan = 20 IPs
  • 50 engines plan = 50 IPs
  • 100 engine plan = 100 IPs

Activate Dedicated IPs

To request for dedicated IPs in your BlazeMeter account, create a support ticket or contact your BlazeMeter account manager.

The following information is required:

  • The account associated email address in BlazeMeter.
  • The region(s) you want and how many IP addresses should be allocated to each region. For example: 10 IPs in Oregon, 20 IPs in Sydney, 30 IPs in Sao Paulo.

BlazeMeter will follow up with you and complete the purchase order for these IPs. Your static IP address allocation takes up to 24 hours after receiving confirmation from the step above.

Available regions include:

Google

  • US Central (Iowa) - us-central1-a
  • US West (Oregon) - us-west1-a
  • US West (California) - us-west2-a
  • US East (Virginia) - us-east4-a
  • US East (South Carolina) - us-east1-b
  • Canada East (Montreal) - northamerica-northeast1-a
  • EU West (London) - europe-west2-a
  • EU West (Frankfurt) - europe-west3-a
  • EU West (Belgium) - europe-west1-b
  • EU West (Netherlands) - europe-west4-b
  • Asia East (Taiwan) - asia-east1-a
  • Asia Northeast (Japan) - asia-northeast1-a
  • Japan (Osaka) - asia-northeast2
  • Asia Southeast (Singapore) - asia-southeast1-a
  • Asia South (Mumbai) - asia-south1-a
  • Australia (Sydney) - australia-southeast1-a
  • Brazil (Sao Paulo) - southamerica-east1-a

Amazon Web Services

  • US East (Virginia)
  • US East (Ohio)
  • US West (N.California)
  • US West (Oregon)
  • Canada (Central)
  • EU West (Ireland)
  • EU West (London)
  • EU West (London)
  • EU West (Paris)
  • EU Central (Frankfurt)
  • Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
  • Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
  • Asia Pacific (Seoul)
  • Asia Pacific (Singapore)
  • Australia (Sydney)
  • South America (Sao Paulo)

View Dedicated IPs

Follow these steps:

  1. Click the Settings button in the top right corner.
  2. From the menu on the left, expand the Workspace drop-down list.
  3. Click Dedicated IPs.

dedicated ips

Your IP addresses are available for you at any time when you run a test in the region that you purchased.

load distribution

If the test will not start, and an error message appears, you do not have enough dedicated IPs:
dedicated ips error

Run a Test with Dedicated IPs

  1. Create a new test or configure an existing one.
  2. Go to the Configuration tab.
  3. Scroll down to Load Distribution section.
  4. From the Locations drop-down list, select your test location.
  5. Select the Use Dedicated IPs checkbox.

    Dedicated IPs Add Location button

    The number of IP addresses should be the same as the number of servers used in the test.

Sharing Dedicated IPs with other Workspaces

You can share Dedicated IPs with several workspaces to use them more efficiently. Users in different workspaces on your account can use the same shared Dedicated IPs as testing locations. But remember, only one test can use a shared Dedicated IP at a time.

To do so, contact our support team (support-blazemeter@perforce.com) and tell them which Dedicated IPs you want to share and with which workspaces you want to share them in your account.

After the shared Dedicated IPs are set up, users in different workspaces can assign the shared Dedicated IPs to their tests and then run those tests.

When a test is using a Dedicated IP, the IP is not available for other tests. In such cases, you'll see a message saying "not enough engines/dedicated IPs to run the test." If you have any questions or need help, don't hesitate to reach out to our support team.