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# Test Failure Settings

The Failure Criteria feature allows you to set your test's pass/fail criteria for various metrics, such as response time, errors, hits/s, latency, bandwidth, throughput etc.

## How To Use

During creating or editing a test, you will find the Test Failure Settings tab.

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After clicking the “+” icon, the following screen will appear.

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* **Label** - Specify here if you want to use this rule on a particular label from your script.  It's set to "ALL" (all labels) by default.
* **Key Performance Indicator** - Select the specific metric you'd like to apply a rule for. Click the down arrow on the right side of the field to open a drop-down menu and review available metrics to monitor.
* **Condition** - The binary comparison operators for this rule, include; "Less than", "Greater than", "Equal to", and "Not Equal to".  Click the down arrow on the right side of the field to open a drop-down menu.
* **Threshold** - The numeric value you want this rule to apply to.
* **Stop Test** - If this box is checked, the test will stop immediately when that criteria fails; otherwise, it will continue running uninterrupted.

### Example

Stop testing if the hits.count of all labels is greater than 3.

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After saving the Failure Criteria, let's start the test and see the results. The test was stopped because the hits.count of all labels exceeded 3.

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On the report screen, we can see the results in the Failure Criteria field.

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Enjoy load testing!

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