AutoCannon is an HTTP/1.1 benchmarking tool written in Node.js. It can simulate high traffic in an application.
It seeks inspiration from wrk and wrk2.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Support for HTTP pipelining.
- Support for HTTPS.
- Choose the number of concurrent connections, number of pipelined requests, number of seconds to run, number of worker threads, number of seconds before timing out, and more.
- API.
- Outputs data in tables showing:
- Latency – lists the request times at the 2.5% percentile, the fast outliers; at 50%, the median; at 97.5%, the slow outliers; at 99%, the very slowest outliers together with an average time,.
- Request volume – lists the number of requests sent and the number of bytes downloaded. These values are sampled once per second. Higher values mean more requests were processed
Website: github.com/mcollina/autocannon
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Developer: Matteo Collina
License: MIT License
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