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HTTP load testing tool and library. It's over 9000!

31 mentions on Hacker News by 22 people: 12 stories, 19 comments · first 2013-08-17 · latest 2025-12-23

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  1. …cached and served directly from Apache instead of going back to Django. Load testing with vegeta ( https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta ) shows the server can now handle multiples more simultaneous traffic than it could before. * Meant users…
    comment by jarofgreen · 2025-12-23 · in HTTP Caching, a Refresher
  2. Vegeta worth a look if you want something a bit more sophisticated: https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta
    comment by trog · 2024-02-27 · in Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site
  3. …they test on[2] so Netty can absolutely scale to high RPS. [0] https://github.com/zio/zio-http [1] https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta [2] https://github.com/zio/zio-http/pull/1659
    comment by ndriscoll · 2022-10-25 · in Show HN: Open-source non-blocking NIO Java HTTP Server
  4. …this type of a performance test. 1. https://www.scylladb.com/2021/04/22/on-coordinated-omission/ 2. https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta
    comment by hassy · 2022-09-16 · in 35M Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx
  5. I've used vegeta ( https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta ) on a couple of projects. Easy to setup and use. IMHO how you load test is almost as important as where you load test and understanding why. There are three separate reasons to do load…
    comment by jillesvangurp · 2021-01-05 · in Load testing is hard and the tools are not great
  6. …more basic (like OP's) but still popular one (>13k GitHub stars) and also written in Go is Vegeta: https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta
    comment by PhilippGille · 2020-01-15 · in Cassowary – Modern cross-platform HTTP load-testing tool written in Go
  7. …right now. Could you tell me how (if significantly) this differs from something like vegeta[1]? [1] https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta
    comment by w8vY7ER · 2019-10-24 · in HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement
  8. …I've also used some much more complicated proprietary tools when testing at great scale.) 1: https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta
    comment by hobls · 2018-07-10 · in Comparing Serverless Performance for CPU Bound Tasks
  9. a mix of ab and vegeta ( https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta ). More and more vegeta lately, thou.
    comment by slipwalker · 2018-03-09 · in Ask HN: What are you using for http load testing?
  10. Vegeta. https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta . The following post covers an approach for generating some randomness. https://thisdata.com/blog/load-testing-api-interfaces-with-g... .
    comment by tofflos · 2018-03-04 · in Ask HN: What are you using for http load testing?
  11. https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta
    comment by programd · 2018-01-25 · in Ask HN: Modern, lightweight HTTP load testing tool?
  12. …is the XML-based DSL (Domain Specific Language) that is somewhat of a pain to use. - Vegeta: https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta - Good for simple testing of API end points with a fixed RPS rate. No scripting capability. - Apachebench:…
    comment by rlonn · 2017-11-20 · in Ask HN: Which load testing tool do you use? Any recommendations?
  13. I use Vegeta https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta whenever I need to quickly test out limits of API endpoints. Besides that, artillery also looks promising https://github.com/shoreditch-ops/artillery
    comment by abhi_kr · 2017-11-20 · in Ask HN: Which load testing tool do you use? Any recommendations?
  14. At work, we had to do some load testing and we used Vegeta: https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta Had anyone used both to point out the main differences from k6?
    comment by brunoluiz · 2017-05-06 · in Show HN: K6 – developer-centric load testing using Go and JavaScript
  15. …is pretty much required for doing any more advanced analysis beyond "the service is fast enough". https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta does this really well (but doesn't have the scripting abilities of this tool).
    comment by robbles · 2017-05-06 · in Show HN: K6 – developer-centric load testing using Go and JavaScript
  16. For those wondering what is being used for load generation in the demo: https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta
    comment by tsenart · 2016-03-28 · in 1000 nodes and beyond: updates to Kubernetes performance and scalability
  17. …I'm easily tempted by the new and shiny which led me to find another great HTTP benchmarking tool: https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta
    comment by anonfunction · 2015-12-08 · in Siege – HTTP load tester and benchmarking utility
  18. …You can generate html (with nice plotting), csv or json reports and launch distributed attacks. [1] https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta
    comment by mickeyben · 2015-04-29 · in How to Generate Millions of HTTP Requests (2012)
  19. …However, I am not sure why you think the requests are sequential. Have a look at this line of code https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/blob/master/lib/attack.go#... 3) Agreed. I have to think the best way to fit this into the targets file…
    comment by tsenart · 2013-08-18 · in Vegeta: HTTP load testing tool written in Go