hey is a command-line load generator for benchmarking web applications and HTTP services.
It sends a configurable number of requests to a URL and reports response-time, throughput and status-code statistics.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Controls the number of requests and concurrent workers.
- Runs tests for a specified duration or request count.
- Limits request rates using per-worker queries per second.
- Supports GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD and OPTIONS requests.
- Works with HTTP/2 endpoints.
- Sends custom headers and request bodies.
- Supports request bodies loaded from files.
- Provides HTTP Basic Authentication and proxy support.
- Exports response metrics in CSV format.
- Can disable compression, connection reuse and redirects.
- Controls request timeouts and the number of CPU cores used.
Website: github.com/rakyll/hey
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Developer: Jaana Dogan
License: Apache License 2.0
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