January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
14h 32m
English
Welle is an alternative to the popular Apache Benchmarking tool (ab) that is used to benchmark HTTP servers. It can produce a batch of requests to a specified URL and measure the time to response for every request. At the end, it collects statistics about the average response time and quantity of failed requests.
To install this tool, use the following command:
cargo install welle
Using this tool is simple: set a URL to test with a number of requests you want to send to a server:
welle --num-requests 10000 http://localhost:8080
By default, the tool uses a single thread to send a request and wait for the response to send the next request. But you can split requests across more threads by setting a --concurrent-requests command-line parameter ...
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