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Stress Testing

Stress testing is taking a system to its limit to see how it behaves, how it deteriorates and what the maximum functional capacity is.

Loading testing aka soak testing is sustained loading the system, rather than testing the limits.

This is useful to burn in hardware to avoid early stage production failures, leaving around 3 year later staggered failures, MTTR / MTBF etc.

Things you want to stress

  • CPU
  • Ram
  • Disk
  • Network
  • Concurrent Rate of Requests to Web Services

Apache Bench

This is in the apache2-utils package.

apt-get install -y apache2-utils

Send 1000 requests using 10 concurrent threads representing different users at a time:

ab -n 1000 -c 10 "$URL"

Siege

apt-get install -y siege

Send 1000 requests using 10 concurrent threads:

siege -r 1000 -c 10 "$URL"

Hey

Written in Golang.

Install:

go get -u github.com/rakyll/hey

Send 1000 requests from 10 concurrent threads:

hey -n 1000 -c 10 "$URL"

:octocat: ddosify/ddosify

JMeter

https://jmeter.apache.org/

Mature battle tested Testing IDE written in Java.

Best known for testing Web services, but can also do databases via JDBC, FTP, LDAP, message buses via JMS, Email services SMTP, IMAP, POP3 etc.

GUI and CLI modes. Non-trivial, you will need to RTFM.

BlazeMeter

Managed service like JMeter.

https://www.blazemeter.com/pricing/

K6 by Grafana Labs

https://k6.io/

HariSekhon/Templates - k6.js

wget -nc https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HariSekhon/Templates/master/k6.js
k6 run k6.js

Hadoop TestDFSIO

hadoop jar hadoop-test-2.0.0-mr1-cdh4.1.2.jar TestDFSIO -write -nrFiles 1000 -fileSize 600 -resFile /path/to/results.txt

YCSB - Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark

Tests all different key-value stores performance

Install:

git clone git://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB.git
cd YCSB
# mvn clean package
mvn package
bin/ycsb --help

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