HTTP Load Testing and Benchmarking Library

Goal:

To build an HTML load tester that measures multiple factors on a specified URL using concurrent workers.

Language:

Python 3.9.12

Dependencies:

requests psutil

Metrics:

Latency Statistics (min, max, avg, std deviation) Error Rates Resource Monitoring (CPU and memory usage) Throughput

Features:

HTTP methods (GET, POST) Dynamic workload simulation using different queries per second (qps)

Docker set-up:

Python: 3.9.12 Port: 8000 Command: python load_tester.py [--max-qps ] [--duration ] [--workers ] [--method ]

Testing:

./test_load_tester.sh

Usage:

docker build -t load_tester . python load_tester.py [--max-qps ] [--duration ] [--workers ] [--method ]