benchmarking a asp.net website, can I use jmeter?

Question

just looking at jmeter, from what I can I see it is a desktop application, so is it safe to say I can use it to benchmark a windows server running asp.net?

any other rec

Answer 1

Yes, I successfully used JMeter with my ASP.NET (not MVC) website.

These two tutorials were a godsend:

• http://blog.technicallyworks.com/2009/06/load-testing-aspnet-sites-with-jmeter.html
• http://blog.technicallyworks.com/2009/06/load-testing-aspnet-with-jmeter.html