TICKETING AND PAYMENT PROCESSING
Stress test your bookings and payments before users do
Simulate massive ticket sale rushes, validate end-to-end booking flows, and ensure your payment systems scale under peak demand. With Gatling Enterprise Edition, your platform stays fast, reliable, and ready for any event.
Trusted by leading brands in retail travel, and digital commerce
READY FOR peak SEASON?
Why ticketing needs load testing
When seconds of downtime cost millions, speed and reliability are non-negotiable. Gatling helps you find and fix performance bottlenecks, before they impact your customers.
Concert tickets, event releases, and limited offers create massive simultaneous booking attempts that can crash your platform in minutes. Without queueing logic and horizontal auto-scaling, systems can crash from CPU exhaustion or database connection saturation.
Summer holidays, winter breaks, and travel seasons drive 10x traffic increases requiring robust infrastructure scaling. API rate limiting, caching strategies, and load balancer configuration must handle sustained high throughput without degrading search response times
Flight searches, hotel availability, and price comparisons must return results in under 2 seconds to maintain user engagement. Complex queries against GDS systems, inventory databases, and pricing engines require optimized connection pooling and efficient caching layers.
60%+ of traffic is mobile. That means high-latency networks, device variability, and fragmented client behavior. APIs must support lightweight payloads, retry logic, and graceful degradation while maintaining session state across intermittent connections.
Booking confirmations and payment processing delays lead to cart abandonment and lost revenue during checkout. Payment gateway timeouts, PCI compliance requirements, and fraud detection systems add latency that must be optimized without compromising security.
Integration with airlines, hotels, and GDS providers creates complex dependencies that need performance validation. Third-party API rate limits, varying response times, and protocol differences require comprehensive testing of fallback mechanisms and timeout handling.
SOLUTION OVERVIEW
Enterprise Edition
for travel and ticketing
Comprehensive performance testing solutions designed
for the complex booking flows and peak demand patterns of ticketing and travel platforms.
Flexible test creation for all
Create realistic booking journey tests with multiple approaches, from no-code visual builders to advanced scripting in JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, or Scala.
Adaptive configuration
Deploy tests globally with public cloud locations or use private infrastructure. Scale automatically based on demand with infrastructure-as-code support.
Manage teams in one interface
Control testing resources with team quotas, usage dashboards, and role-based permissions. Perfect for organizations with multiple booking platforms.
Automation at scale
Integrate seamlessly with your CI/CD pipeline. Automate testing with configuration-as-code and comprehensive APIs for custom workflows.
Easy sharing
Share results across teams with Slack/Teams notifications, public links, and comprehensive reporting APIs. Keep everyone informed about booking platform health.
Data visualization and analysis
Track performance trends over time, compare multiple test runs, and dive deep into booking flow metrics with advanced dashboards and real-time insights.
FEATURE TOOLKIT
Enterprise-grade features
for ticketing and payments
Built for the scale, security, and collaboration needs of large travel organizations.
Flash-sale simulations
Reproduce massive spikes in concurrent buyers refreshing, selecting seats, and checking out in seconds, the hardest load pattern in ticketing.
High concurrency at scale
Simulate millions of simultaneous checkout queues with distributed load generators to mirror real-world demand for popular events.
Geo-distributed load generation
Test from multiple regions to validate global fan access, CDN behavior, and payment reliability across borders.
Transaction validation
Script realistic multi-step user journeys (seat selection, cart, payment) to ensure every flow performs under peak load.
Real-time dashboards & regression tracking
Monitor error rates, queue performance, and transaction latency in live dashboards, and compare results across runs to prevent regressions.
CI/CD & observability integrations
Embed ticketing performance tests into your pipelines and stream Gatling metrics into Datadog or Dynatrace for complete visibility.
“Gatling has been a game-changer for our performance testing. The ability to simulate real-world loads and automatically test our platform’s response to high traffic has ensured that we maintain top performance, even as our business grows.”
Pierre Pommerel,
Solution Architect
“Gatling has become an integral part of our CI/CD pipeline. We run daily load tests, ensuring every change is stress-tested before it reaches production.”
Thomas Onken,
Software Developer
“We can track our performance over time and allow our development teams to automate the scenarios and runs. Gatling enabled us to automate the performance impact assessment of new feature delivery continuously and before releases.”
Simon Vos,
Technology Director
“In order to make sure interdiscount.ch was ready for Black Friday, we opted for Gatling Enterprise as our performance testing solution. The live dashboards are a real benefit as they let us see exactly when the website is slowing down during a performance test.”
Joel Rittener
Senior Application Manager
Never lose
another booking
Deliver fast, reliable ticketing and booking experiences — even during your busiest sales events.
Performance across all industries
Whatever your industry, Gatling helps you simulate real-world traffic at scale, ensuring your apps perform flawlessly when it matters most.
