Overview

Benchmarking tool for network services. Currently, limited to HTTP only (H1 or H2, over TCP or TLS). However, it's easily extendable to other protocols.

Usage

Build with cargo

$ cargo build --release
$ ./target/release/service-benchmark help 

USAGE:
    service-benchmark [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] --num_req <NUMBER_OF_REQUESTS> [SUBCOMMAND]

FLAGS:
    -v, --verbose    Print debug information. Not recommended for `-n > 500`
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -c, --concurrency <CONCURRENCY>       Concurrent threads. Default `1`.
    -n, --num_req <NUMBER_OF_REQUESTS>    Number of requests.
    -r, --rate <RATE_PER_SECOND>          Request rate per second. E.g. 100 or 0.1. By default no limit.

SUBCOMMANDS:
    help    Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    http    Run in HTTP(S) mode

Help for the http command:

$./target/release/service-benchmark help http

USAGE:
    service-benchmark http [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <TARGET>

ARGS:
    <TARGET>    Target, e.g. https://my-service.com:8443/8kb

FLAGS:
        --conn_reuse       If connections should be re-used
        --http2_only       Enforce HTTP/2 only
        --ignore_cert      Allow self signed certificates. Applies to the target (not proxy).
        --store_cookies    If cookies should be stored
    -h, --help             Prints help information
    -V, --version          Prints version information

OPTIONS:
        --tunnel <TUNNEL>    HTTP Tunnel used for connection, e.g. http://my-proxy.org

Example:

Test an endpoint:

./target/release/service-benchmark -c 4 -n 50000 \
                                   http https://my-local-nginx.org/10kb --ignore_cert --conn_reuse

via an HTTP tunnel:

./target/release/service-benchmark -c 4 -n 50000 \
                                    http https://my-local-nginx.org/10kb \
                                    --tunnel http://localhost:8080 --ignore_cert --conn_reuse

With a given rate of requests (1,000 RPS):

./target/release/service-benchmark -c 4 -r 1000 -n 50000 \
                                    http https://my-local-nginx.org/10kb \
                                    --tunnel http://localhost:8080 --ignore_cert --conn_reuse