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Top 9 Go performance-testing Projects
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anteon
Anteon (formerly Ddosify) - Effortless Kubernetes Monitoring and Performance Testing. Available on CLI, Self-Hosted, and Cloud
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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fortio
Fortio load testing library, command line tool, advanced echo server and web UI in go (golang). Allows to specify a set query-per-second load and record latency histograms and other useful stats.
Project mention: Fortio: A microservices (HTTP, gRPC) load testing library | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-12 -
go-wrk
go-wrk - a HTTP benchmarking tool based in spirit on the excellent wrk tool (https://github.com/wg/wrk)
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However, there are scenarios where you want to emulate multiple machines running a single test. You want to test your application’s load by generating traffic from different IP addresses, or your single instance cannot create the needed load. If you’re using Kubernetes in your organization, you can use the k6 operator to run distributed load tests.
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SaaSHub
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hargo
Hargo is a Go library and command line utility that parses HAR files, can convert to curl format, and serve as a load test driver.
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xk6-kafka
k6 extension to load test Apache Kafka with support for various serialization formats, SASL, TLS, compression, Schema Registry client and beyond
Go performance-testing discussion
Go performance-testing related posts
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Performance testing Kafka server using xk6-kafka
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🔥 What is Apache Kafka and how to perform performance tests on it (Part 2) 👨🏻💻
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xk6-kafka v0.12.0 is released! 🎉
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Request - Load testing tool
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Ddosify : High-performance load testing tool
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How to Load Test Your Kafka Producers and Consumers using k6
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Performance Testing in Kubernetes using Kangal
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
www.influxdata.com | 24 Jun 2025
Index
What are some of the best open-source performance-testing projects in Go? This list will help you:
# | Project | Stars |
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1 | anteon | 8,479 |
2 | fortio | 3,542 |
3 | go-wrk | 997 |
4 | k6-operator | 665 |
5 | kube-burner | 592 |
6 | Pewpew | 434 |
7 | ptg | 329 |
8 | hargo | 246 |
9 | xk6-kafka | 178 |