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Load Tester

HTTP load testing tool with concurrent calls support

Setup

Load tester uses a file called conf.yml in the same location as the binary

timeout: Default timeout for http request
requests: Total requests to be made for each target
concurrency: Concurrent calls count for each target, for instance, if you set concurrency to 10 the load tester will have 10 concurrent calls for each target, so if you have 3 targets the load tester will have 30 concurrent calls running
targets: Target hosts to test, you must set a target name as key
- url: Host address
- method: http method
- payload: request body
- header: request header, here you can specify multiple key/value

timeout: 2
requests: 100
concurrency: 10
targets:
  target_key_name:
    url: https://google.com
    method: GET
  other_target_key_name:
    url: http://api.example.com
    method: POST
    payload: '{"ping":"pong"}'
    header:
      Authorization: Basic 2321321321312312
      Ping: pong

By default the load tester will look for a file named conf.yml but you can specify another file using -c flag

Run

Open your bash/terminal and just run the downloaded binary, don't forget to place the config.yml file in the same location as the binary before running the load tester

./load_tester

Or with a custom config file

./load_tester -c customConf.yml

Now you can also specify an output file to store all requests responses, use -o flag for that

./load_tester -o results.json

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