When using jmeter on an ssl enabled site I was seeing an error

SSL handshake alert: unrecognized_name error

But I’d read that since jmeter version 2.4 ssl should work fine

It turns out that Java 7 introduced a feature (SNI support) and can trigger this error in some circumstances.

As workaround you can disable this feature by setting the property jsse.enableSNIExtension to false.

and run jmeter like

In order to log from Jmeter to statsd you need to add a statsd library to the jmeter /lib path

Then have a beanshell on the thread group setup a statsd object for use by the threads