A distributed loadtesting and benchmarking package built ontop of Heroku's cloud and Apache's apachebench utility.
Capable of loads of millions of requests per second, for free.
$ gem install herokubench
$ hbench help
commands:
hbench ab [options] [http[s]://]hostname[:port]/path # Run apache-bench using a single one-off dyno
hbench create APP_NAME # Create your personal bench-server on Heroku
hbench help [COMMAND] # Describe available commands or one specific command
hbench multi NUMBER [options] [http[s]://]hostname[:port]/path # Run apache-bench, using multiple one-off dynos
hbench update # Updates your remote bench server
Options:
[--verbose]
$ hbench create hbench-david
Creating hbench-david... done, stack is cedar
http://hbench-david.herokuapp.com/ | [email protected]:hbench-david.git
...Make 10,000 requests using 100 concurrent connections
$ hbench -c 100 -n 10000 http://simplewsgi.herokuapp.com/Result:
$ hbench -c 100 -n 10000 http://simplewsgi.herokuapp.com/
Benching: |====================================================================|
Cumulative results, summed across dynos
Server Port: 80
Document Length: 12
Concurrency Level: 5000
Time taken for tests: 338.7
Complete requests: 5000000
Failed requests: 1715
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 773280562
HTML transferred: 60553444
Requests per second: 14930.630000000001
Time per request: 3.4
Transfer rate: 47.62
Connection Times (ms), median across dynos
min mean [+/-sd] median
Connect: 1.2 2.8 5.5 1.8
Processing: 2.3 332.8 1013.0 113.6
Waiting: 0.0 332.1 1012.7 112.8
Total: 4.1 335.7 1013.1 116.6
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) across dynos
50% 219
66% 305
75% 378
80% 430
90% 605
95% 983
98% 3636
99% 6202
100% 20933Please don't hesitate to ask, comment, contribute or critique! I am all ears!