Listeners

Listeners let you view the results of the Samplers in the form of tables, graphs, trees or simple text in some log files. They provide visual access to the data gathered by JMeter about the test cases as a Sampler component of JMeter is executed.

Listeners collect data ONLY from elements at or below their level.

Each Listener displays the response information in specific way. For example, in order to view the graph form of the statistical data of the response time, you may want to use a "Aggregate Graph" Listener. Likewise, to view the statistical report on the same response data in a table form, you may want to add a "Summary Report" or "Aggregate Report" Listener. You can choose the form in which you would like to view the requests by selecting any of these Listeners, but they all write the same raw data to the output file with a .jtl extension.


Listeners provide means to view, save, and read saved test results.

All Listeners that save data into the same file shows the same data differently.

The following list consists of all the Listeners JMeter provides:
  • Sample Result Save Configuration
  • Graph Full Results
  • Graph Results
  • Spline Visualizer
  • Assertion Results
  • View Results Tree
  • Aggregate Report
  • View Results in Table
  • Simple Data Writer
  • Monitor Results
  • Distribution Graph (alpha)
  • Aggregate Graph
  • Mailer Visualizer
  • BeanShell Listener
  • Summary Report