The Citrix stack, measured the way Citrix actually behaves.
LoadGen ships a dedicated 7-step Citrix wizard: Basic (ICA) and Enhanced (HDX), StoreFront / Gateway / PNAgent / External Login authentication, and Citrix-specific .lgs workloads on Full agents.
New Citrix Profile
Step 1: Set profile name and Citrix type
Profile Basics
Configure the basic settings for your Citrix load profile.
A unique name to identify this profile
Enable or disable this profile
The Problem
Generic load tools don’t speak Citrix.
Citrix is a protocol stack, an authentication topology, and a delivery model - not just an HTTP endpoint. Tools that ignore that produce numbers that lie.
Citrix-specific signals get smoothed away.
Generic load tools sample HTTP. They miss the Basic (ICA) and Enhanced (HDX) protocol shapes and the StoreFront / Gateway / PNAgent / External Login auth flow, the surfaces that actually break Citrix sessions.
Auth flows trip every other tool.
StoreFront, Gateway, PNAgent, and External Login each have their own quirks. Without dedicated handling, capacity tests stall before the user opens an app.
Migrations are a leap of faith.
When you can’t baseline Citrix Basic vs Enhanced or Citrix vs AVD on the same scenario shape, every cutover is a slide deck masquerading as a plan.
How LoadGen handles Citrix
Discover · Author · Execute · Validate.
Four motions, every one Citrix-aware - from the login flow to the HDX channel down to the comparison overlay.
Discover
Native StoreFront, Gateway, PNAgent, and External Login discovery. Connection profile authored once, replayed everywhere.
Author
The 7-step Citrix wizard captures protocol mode (Basic / ICA, Enhanced / HDX), display, scenario, and agent strategy in minutes.
Execute
Citrix-specific .lgs workloads run on Full agents. Activate, reset, and kill operations land per-session, not just per-host.
Validate
Compare HDX vs ICA, Citrix vs AVD, baseline vs release. Drill from KPI summary into Moments, Errors, and per-step measurements.
Live · 7-step Citrix Wizard
Citrix Basic + Enhanced. One wizard. Same scenario shape.
Author once, run on either protocol, compare against AVD on the same screen. The wizard captures everything Citrix needs - and nothing it doesn’t.
Outcomes · before / after
First Citrix test in 4 hours. Citrix-aware metrics from minute one.
Drawn from teams adopting the dedicated Citrix wizard for one release cycle.
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Guess
After
Measured
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Wizard
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Citrix → Platform
Five features. One Citrix practice.
Citrix isn’t a feature - it’s the way these five compose into a Citrix-aware testing and validation loop.
Load Profile Wizard
7-step Citrix wizard - Basic ICA + Enhanced HDX, with StoreFront / Gateway / PNAgent / External Login.
/features/load-profile-wizard
Agents
Full agents for Citrix sessions: Activate / Reset / Kill batch ops on every session host.
/features/agents
SUT Monitoring
Bind any Windows performance counter through the SUT Monitoring step, capacity correlates with infra health on the same timeline.
/features/sut-monitoring
End-to-End Monitoring
Continuous UX validation from the real user perspective - same scenario shape as your load tests.
/products/monitoring
Analytics & AI
AI-flagged latency anomalies and Citrix-vs-AVD comparison overlays - no analyst hours per release.
/products/analytics-ai
Test your Citrix stack the way Citrix actually behaves.
Run the 7-step wizard this afternoon. Capture an HDX baseline this week. Compare it against AVD next week with the same scenario shape.
