Load Testing Vegeta Locust

Posted on October 2, 2012
Tags: hacksoft

1 vegeta

1.1 Install

mkdir Vegeta
cd Vegeta
wget https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/download/v12.8.4/vegeta_12.8.4_linux_amd64.tar.gz
tar -xvzf vegeta_12.8.4_linux_amd64.tar.gz

1.2 100 hits per second

echo "GET http://192.168.1.245:3300" | ./vegeta attack -name=bleh -rate=100 -duration=5s > results.100qps.bin

1.3 As much as possible hits

  • Set -rate=0 representing infinity. Set max-workers=100 to num of virtual threads.
echo "GET http://192.168.1.245:3300" | ./vegeta attack -name=1000qps -rate=0 -duration=15s -max-workers=100

1.4 Plotting

./vegeta plot results.100qps.bin > plot.html

1.5 Report

./vegeta report results.100qps.bin
# Requests      [total, rate, throughput]         405037, 6696.28, 5508.40
# Duration      [total, attack, wait]             1m7s, 1m0s, 6.869s
# Latencies     [min, mean, 50, 90, 95, 99, max]  1.101ms, 6.598s, 4.256s, 16.925s, 21.484s, 26.89s, 51.645s
# Bytes In      [total, mean]                     5936336, 14.66
# Bytes Out     [total, mean]                     0, 0.00
# Success       [ratio]                           91.60%
# Status Codes  [code:count]                      0:34016  200:371021

2 Locust

pip3 install locust
from locust import HttpUser, task

class HelloWorldUser(HttpUser):
    @task
    def hello_world(self):
        self.client.post("/api/authenticate", json={"username":"user", "password":"user", "rememberMe": "false"})