Boom Load Tester Tips

Posted by Scratches on August 29, 2022

Run Boom against localhost passing a custom header

30 concurrent requests, total requests of 3000

  boom http://localhost/ --header Host:test-website.example.com -c 30 -n 3000

  Server Software: nginx/1.20.1
  Running GET http://127.0.0.1:80/
    Host: test-website.example.com
  Running 3000 queries - concurrency 30
  [================================================================>.] 99% Done

  -------- Results --------
  Successful calls		3000
  Total time        		19.6470 s  
  Average           		0.1826 s  
  Fastest           		0.0870 s  
  Slowest           		0.4205 s  
  Amplitude         		0.3335 s  
  Standard deviation		0.031529
  RPS               		152
  BSI              		Pretty good

  -------- Status codes --------
  Code 200          		3000 times.

  -------- Legend --------
  RPS: Request Per Second
  BSI: Boom Speed Index

install boom

  python3 -m pip install boom