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The run queue and stage pills

After you dispatch, the run moves through eight stages — watch them on the Queue page.

The 8-stage pipeline

When you click Run, the test is dispatched and moves through these stages, shown as pills on the Queue page:

  1. Queued → Provisioning (a fresh cloud master + injectors spin up)
  2. Setup (the test plan and data are loaded onto the master)
  3. Create Data → Smoke (a 1-user check that every step returns OK)
  4. Running (the full load) → Analysing → Teardown

The Smoke stage gates the load test: if the smoke fails, the load won't run, so you don't pay for a broken script. A failed stage turns red with the reason in the log.

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