Go-load, A simple load testing tool written in go

Go-load, A simple load testing tool written in go

As I was learning golang, I wrote a simple load testing tool in it and have been using it for generating consistent load test traffic while I try to collect profiling data on my .net apps.

Usage

Prerequisites

Make sure you have installed go runtime in your machine

Install go-load binary

Open a terminal/command prompt and run the below go get command which will install the go-load binary. This will download the source code to your machine and build the go-load.exe.

go get github.com/kshyju/go-load

Command line options

• -c : Specifies the number of concurrent connections(goroutines) to use. You can consider this as the RPS you want for the test. Ex: -c 50 will send 50 requests/second.
• -d : Specifies the duration of the load test in seconds. Ex: -d 30 will run the tests for 30 seconds.
• -h : Specifies the request headers to send in a comma separated form. Each header item can use the key:value format. Ex: my-apikey:foo,cookie:uid
• -body : Specifies the path to a local file name which has the request payload data present. go-load will read the content of this file and use that as the request body. When this option is passed, Http POST method will be used to send the request.
• -u : Specifies the request URL explicitly.

Examples

Send 10 requests/sec to bing.com for 30 seconds

go-load -c 10 -d 30 https://www.bing.com

If you have special characters like & in your URL, you need to pass the value in quotes.

go-load -c 10 -d 30 "https://www.bing.com?how=are&you=today"

Sending request headers

Request headers can be passed as a comma separated string with the -h flag. The string should have header key and value in the key:value format. Ex: User-Agent:Go-http-client/1.1

go-load -c=10 -d=30 -h my-apikey:foo,cookie:uid:bar https://www.bing.com

The above example is sending 2 request headers, “my-apikey” and “cookie”.

Sending HTTP POST request with payload from a local file

go-load -c=10 -d=30 -body="C:\\temp\\my-payload.json" "http://your.app/which/accepts/http-post?foo=bar"

At the end of the run, go-load will generate a run summary which includes latency(different percentiles) and aggregated status code count.

Source code

Cheers