Easy ways to (load) test a gRPC service

• grpcui

  11 4,896 7.5 Go

  An interactive web UI for gRPC, along the lines of postman

  

save requests and create collections as you would do in Postman (looks like FullStory team is already going in this direction with grpcui project)

• grpcurl

  37 10,118 7.2 Go

  Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers

  

The latter was apparently the inspiration for the folks at FullStory that built a tool called, not surprisingly, grpcurl. This tool allows you to do many things you’d normally use cURL for, but with gRPC, including building requests and viewing responses in your terminal in plain JSON.

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Hey

  38 17,249 0.0 Go

  HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement (by rakyll)

Being able to test gRPC API with cURL like command is great, but what if you need to check how your service behaves under more serious load? Fortunately, there's a tool for that too. It's called ghz and it pretty much resembles some other benchmarking tools you're likely familiar with - ApacheBench (ab) and its more modern alternative hey.

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