Load testing and benchmarking tools
Listed in alphabetical order.
ab: slow and single threaded, written in C
apib: most of the features of ApacheBench (ab), also designed as a more modern replacement, written in C
baloo: expressive end-to-end HTTP API testing made easy, written in Go (golang)
baton: HTTP load testing, written in Go (golang)
bombardier: fast crossplatform HTTP benchmarking tool, written in Go (golang)
curl-loader: performance loading of various application services and traffic generation, written in C
drill: HTTP load testing application inspired by Ansible syntax, written in Rust
fasthttploader: benchmark (kinda ab) with autoadjustment and charts based on fasthttp library, write in Go (golang)
fortio: load testing library and command line tool and web UI. Allows to specify a set query-per-second load and record latency histograms and other useful stats, write in Go (golang)
gatling: high performance load testing framework based on Scala, Akka and Netty, write in Scala
go-wrk: HTTP benchmarking tool based in spirit on the excellent wrk tool (wg/wrk), write in Go (golang)
goad: AWS Lambda powered, highly distributed, load testing tool, write in Go (golang)
gobench: HTTP/HTTPS load testing and benchmarking tool, write in Go (golang)
gohttpbench: ab-like benchmark tool run on multi-core cpu, write in Go (golang)
hey: HTTP(S) load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement, formerly known as rakyll/boom, written in Go (golang)
htstress: multithreading high-load bechmarking services (>5K rps), written in C/Linux
httperf: difficult configuration, slow and single threaded, written in C
inundator: simple and high-throughput HTTP flood program, written in C/Linux
jmeter: Apache JMeter™, pure application designed to load test performance both on static and dynamic resources, written in Java
k6: modern load testing tool scriptable in ES6 JS with support for HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2.0 and WebSocket, written in Go (golang)
locust: easy-to-use, distributed load testing tool with real-time web UI. Simulates a swarm of concurrent users, the behavior of each of them is defined by your python code. Written in Python
mgun: modern tool for load testing HTTP servers, written in Go (golang)
pounce: evented, but results fluctuate, it's sometimes faster than htstress, written in C
siege: slow and single threaded, written in C
slapper: simple load testing tool with real-time updated histogram of request timings, written in Go (golang)
slow_cooker: load tester focused on lifecycle issues and long-running tests, service with a predictable load and concurrency level for a long period of time, written in Go (golang)
sniper: powerful & high-performance http load tester, written in Go (golang)
tsung: simulate stress users in order to test the scalability and performance of IP based client/server applications HTTP, WebDAV, SOAP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP and Jabber/XMPP servers, written in Erlang
vegeta: HTTP load testing tool and library, written in Go (golang)
weighttp: multithreaded, but slower than htstress without keepalive, written in C
wrk: multithreaded, written in C/Lua
wrk2: constant throughput, correct latency recording variant of wrk, written in C/Lua
yandex-tank: load and performance benchmark tool, written in Python/C|C++|Asm (phantom)
Descriptions are from here.
