Cassowary is a modern HTTP/S, intuitive & cross-platform load testing tool built in Go for developers, testers and sysadmins.
Cassowary draws inspiration from projects like k6, ab and httpstat.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- 2 Load Testing modes: one standard and one spread mode where URL Paths can be specified from a file (ideal if you want to hit several underlying microservices).
- CI Friendly: Well-suited to be part of a CI pipeline step.
- Flexible metrics: Cloudwatch metrics, Prometheus metrics (pushing metrics to Prometheus PushGateway), JSON file.
- Configurable: Able to pass in arbitrary HTTP headers, able to configure the HTTP client.
- Supports GET, POST, PUT & PATCH – POST, PUT and PATCH data can be defined in a file.
- Importable – Besides the CLI tool cassowary can be imported as a module in your Go app.
- Visualizations – Cassowary can export request data as a histogram and boxplot in PNG format
- Cross platform support – one single pre-built binary for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Website: github.com/rogerwelin/cassowary
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Developer: Roger Welin
License: MIT License
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