Top 9 Go performance-testing Projects

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1. anteon

   1 103 8,479 7.3 Go

   Anteon (formerly Ddosify) - Effortless Kubernetes Monitoring and Performance Testing. Available on CLI, Self-Hosted, and Cloud

   

   Project mention: Show HN: Gurubase – AI-Powered Q&A Assistants for Any Topic | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-21

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2. InfluxDB

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   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.

   

3. fortio

   2 2 3,542 8.1 Go

   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

4. go-wrk

   3 1 997 4.8 Go

   go-wrk - a HTTP benchmarking tool based in spirit on the excellent wrk tool (https://github.com/wg/wrk)

   

5. k6-operator

   4 1 665 8.9 Go

   An operator for running distributed k6 tests.

   

   Project mention: Comparing the K6 Operator vs Testkube for Load Testing | dev.to | 2024-10-28

   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.

6. kube-burner

   5 1 592 9.1 Go

   Kubernetes performance and scale test orchestration framework written in golang

   

7. Pewpew

   6 0 434 5.3 Go

   Flexible HTTP command line stress tester for websites and web services (by bengadbois)

   

8. ptg

   7 1 329 2.6 Go

   💥Performance testing tool (Go), It is also a GUI gRPC client.

   

9. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

10. hargo

    8 1 246 3.2 Go

    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.

    

11. xk6-kafka

    9 4 178 7.5 Go

    k6 extension to load test Apache Kafka with support for various serialization formats, SASL, TLS, compression, Schema Registry client and beyond

    

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• xk6-kafka v0.12.0 is released! 🎉

  1 project | /r/golang | 4 Jul 2022

• Request - Load testing tool

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• Ddosify : High-performance load testing tool

  2 projects | dev.to | 25 Oct 2021

• How to Load Test Your Kafka Producers and Consumers using k6

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• Performance Testing in Kubernetes using Kangal

  2 projects | dev.to | 22 Apr 2021
• A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
  www.influxdata.com | 24 Jun 2025

  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. Learn more →

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