Performance-Testing-Tools VS artillery

There are over 50+ performance testing tools available in the market. It is not possible to learn all the tools, but instead, learning the general performance concepts helps you to master any tool irrespective of programming language. I usually cherry-pick when I write blog or create video tutorials. In this blog article, we are going to see about Artillery.

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There are umpteen performance testing tools available in the commercial market as well as in the open source repositories. Based on our requirements, we can choose the best tool from the arsenal. Recently, Go based performance testing tools are exploding in the open source world. Go runtime provides very light-weight goroutines which execute the tasks quickly and efficiently. In this blog post, we are going to see about Iter8 - a simple Go based performance testing tool which validates the SLOs, performs Chaos testing, and more.

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There are over 50+ tools and solutions available in the market for performance testing your application and services. Now it is time to check out Ddosify, high-performance load testing tool which offers free and commercial features to test web applications and services over HTTP(S), HTTP/2, and other protocols are on their way. In this blog article, let us deep-dive into Ddosify tool and see whether it satisfies a typical performance engineer or not.

Usually, I would let organic users be my load test. However, I am working on a project that has an anticipated load on a new-to-my-team stack, so I'm looking into ways to load test.

I've seen tools like k6 (https://k6.io/), Artillery (https://www.artillery.io), and JMeter (https://jmeter.apache.org/).

I've been using Artillery, but it's hard to visualize the results.

What do you use?

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I found a tool for load testing called Artillery. Following this guide I installed Artillery and began research for the test configuration.

This is a great blog post! just taking the opportunity here to comment on this:

> Finally for full scale high fidelity load tests there are relatively few tools out there for browser based load testing.

It exists as of a few months ago and it's fully open source: https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery (I'm the lead dev). You write a Playwright script, then run it in your own AWS account on serverless Fargate and scale it out horizontally as you see fit. Artillery takes care of spinning up and down all of the infra. It will also automatically grab and report Core Web Vitals for you from all those browser sessions, and we just released support for tracing so you can dig into the details of each session if you want to (OpenTelemetry based so works with most vendors- Datadago APM, New Relic etc)

So not to stress test Momento or AWS' Lambda, I wanted to build a small but stable 10-minute workload that hits the Momento Topic API and then let Momento trigger the FunctionURL to run the Lambda code. I wrote a small Artillery config file that ramps up to 20 users and then sustains that for the duration. Again, the script is simple to trigger the work.

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curl is fantastic. There's also HTTPStat which provides a waterfall visualization on top of curl timings: https://github.com/reorx/httpstat

There's also Skytrace (made by yours truly), which provides timing info as a waterfall visualization inspired by HTTPStat + lots more (syntax highlighting for responses, built-in JMESPath support, command-line assertions and checks etc) - https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/tree/main/packages/...

https://www.artillery.io/

I know it's an annoying answer, but it depends on your application. The only true way to know is to test it using a load tester like artillery. Measuring performance is a fundamental part of any optimisation (otherwise how do you know?), so it's a great idea to be using tools like this anyway.

For this test I have used artillery.io with the following configuration: