Request shooter 🔫

Is a high performance HTTP benchmarking tool written in rust 🦀.

Key features

• event driven request sending and response reading, which makes it incredibly fast
• Multithreaded if you want
• Accurate result calculations
• Readable and colorful benchmark statistics in terminal

Current limitations

• Supported only HTTP version 1.1
• Not supported SSL/TLS connections
• Currently tested only on Fedora Linux OS

Next goals

• Support latest HTTP versions
• Implement SSL/TLS connections (thinking about rustls lib)
• Support other platforms
• More granular benchmark statistics

Usage

Installation

1. clone repository

git clone https://github.com/ilya-4real/req_shooter.git

2. build shooter with rust compiler

cd req_shooter
cargo build -r

3. place binary into any path directory

cp /target/release/req_shooter ~/.local/bin

2. launch

req_shooter -d 10 -c 50 -t 2 127.0.0.1:8000/

3. Enjoy

Usage: req_shooter [OPTIONS] -d <duration> <url>

Arguments:
 <url>  

Options:
 -t <threads>       how many threads to run [default: 1]
 -H <header>        header to send with request
 -c <conns>         how many active connections to use in each thread [default: 100]
 -d <duration>      how long to test in seconds
 -h, --help         Print help
 -V, --version      Print version

Example of output: