StaffHello Manav,
The following documentation article may be useful to you: Load Testing: Checking Whether Server Supports a Certain Number of Users
There is no single configuration to achieve the test objectives you have described. In general, you will want to use a Stepwise load profile so that you can see at what point performance issues may occur. A good starting point is to identify what kind of peak load your application currently receives. If such data is not available, you may make an educated guess based on the amount of concurrent load you may need to support.
For example, to find the crash point for my application, I started by running a test for 100 VU, then 500 VU, then 1000 VU and so on. My 100VU test passed with no problems. My 500VU test also passed, but I noted that Page Load Time was much worse. My 1000VU test failed, and the graph is shown below:
I can see that errors occurred, but not until my load had ramped up to 1000VUs. Therefore, I ran another test for 1500VUs:
In this test, I can clearly see that the server began to give me errors around 1100 users. I then consulted the Details report to see exactly what errors occurred. This article on Analyzing Results may also be useful to you.
Hope this helps.
