Tools to benchmark web-services

Question

What tools are best for measuring web-services performance?

It would be nice to get report for total transferred data, total POSTs, requests per second, time per req

Answer 1

I have used jmeter in the past. Check it out.

Answer 2

Not quite for web services, but a very simple command line tool is distributed with Apache to benchmark HTTP performance, it is called ApacheBench and can be found in the bin directory as ab.exe

ApacheBench's documentation

Answer 3

There is also http://www.soapui.org/ that our QA dept used.