adurham/ali

Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time

ali

A load testing tool aimed to perform real-time analysis, inspired by vegeta and jplot.

ali comes with a simple terminal based UI, lets you generate HTTP requests and plot the results in real-time. With it, real-time analysis can be done on the terminal.

Installation

Binaries are available through the releases page.

Via Homebrew

brew install nakabonne/ali/ali

Via APT

wget https://github.com/nakabonne/ali/releases/download/v0.1.2/ali_0.1.2_linux_amd64.deb
apt install ./ali_0.1.2_linux_amd64.deb

Via RPM

curl -OL https://github.com/nakabonne/ali/releases/download/v0.1.2/ali_0.1.2_linux_amd64.rpm
rpm -i ./ali_0.1.2_linux_amd64.rpm

Via Go

go get github.com/nakabonne/ali

Via Docker

docker run --rm -it nakabonne/ali ali

Usage

Quickstart

$ ali

Click on the target URL input field, give the URL and press Enter. Then the attack will be launched with default options.

Options

Name	Description	Default
Rate Limit	The request rate per time unit to issue against the targets. Give 0 then it will send requests as fast as possible.	50
Duration	The amount of time to issue requests to the targets. Give 0s for an infinite attack. Press Ctrl-C to stop. Valid time units are "ns", "us" (or "µs"), "ms", "s", "m", "h".	10s
Timeout	The timeout for each request. 0s means to disable timeouts. Valid time units are "ns", "us" (or "µs"), "ms", "s", "m", "h".	30s
Method	An HTTP request method for each request.	GET
Header	A request header to be sent.	empty
Body	The file whose content will be set as the http request body.	empty

Features

Plot in real-time

Currently it only plots latencies, but in the near future more metrics will be drawn as well.

Visualize the attack progress

This will help you during long tests.

Mouse support

With the help of mum4k/termdash, it's intuitive to operate.

Built with

• mum4k/termdash
  • nsf/termbox-go
• tsenart/vegeta

LoadMap

• Plot more metrics in real-time (#2)
• Support more options for HTTP requests (#1)
• Better UI