Load testing using Vegeta

This is a simple script which is used for load testing of an api.

Prerequisite

Should know about Vegeta. You can check this.

How to use

1. Create the request json file.

2. Run ./load_test.sh { put vegeta_request_file} {no. of rounds you want to do the load testing}

    e.g. `./load_test.sh api_request.json 10`
   

3. The script will create output files for diffent concurrency (currently hardcoded in script as 50, 100, 150 and 200)in /tmp/.

    e.g file will be named like `vegeta-benchmark-50.txt`.
   

4. Terminal output will look something like

====vegeta benchmark rate: 50====
p50: 2.78763
p95: 4.88795
p99: 57.2107

====vegeta benchmark rate: 100====
p50: 2.21426
p95: 2.71912
p99: 3.12941

====vegeta benchmark rate: 150====
p50: 1.95628
p95: 2.46924
p99: 2.97679

====vegeta benchmark rate: 200====
p50: 1.58356
p95: 2.08388
p99: 2.35044

5. To understand the output file you can check this