Case Study: PointsBet achieves seamless handling of 10x Melbourne Cup traffic with OpenText LoadRunner Professional

The Melbourne Cup may stop a nation, but thanks to Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional it will never stop online betting.

PointsBet is an Australian online sportsbook known for a fast, user-friendly app and coverage of hundreds of thousands of sporting and racing events. Because a large share of its revenue comes from high-intensity moments like the Melbourne Cup — with peak betting in the last 10 minutes before each race and surges after finishes — PointsBet needed an enterprise-grade performance testing solution to ensure systems could handle up to 10× normal load without failing.

PointsBet adopted Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional to create and run end-to-end, multi-geo tests from a single interface, using easy scripting, real-time diagnostics, API-driven flows and GitHub integration for continuous testing. On Melbourne Cup day the platform sustained hundreds of thousands of hits per second (about 10× normal traffic) with no performance issues, while reducing test hours, improving onboarding and delivering clear ROI as the company scales.

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Pranay Agarwal

SRE & Performance Lead