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HTTP benchmarking tool.

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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Makes HTTP requests to defined services for load testing. Fully configurable requests (body, headers, TLS certs. Supports HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2.0. Choose request volume: rate, concurrency, duration. Outputs latency numbers. Configurable output templates. Written in Go so available cross platform as a single binary.

Tradeoffs

Docs are limited - more examples would be useful. It’s designed as a CLI, so you can’t template your test parameters easily.

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