Conduct load testing

Load testing can determine whether your system will scale successfully during production use, and find any bottlenecks that prevent it from scaling during an event.

  1. Three to five months before your event, you should perform load testing on critical projects and workloads to simulate peak traffic.

  2. Investigate the quota and cost implications of the load tests and consider creating Cloud Billing budget alerts that will monitor the expense of the services that you are going to stress the most.

  3. After each test, evaluate the results and use Capacity Planner to visualize your usage and forecast data, and request quota increases as necessary. For more information, see Use Capacity Planner and Request a quota adjustment.

If you require assistance, contact your account team or TAM. They can help you capture and plan architecture changes to improve the overall reliability and availability of your services.

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