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Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app?
Need to load test our web app - any recommendations for tools that are easy to set up? I heard about JCrawler, but looking for something even simpler. Is there any simple online tool that can do this? Thanks a lot!
- ericb 19y agoI'm working on a tool now that should be dead easy, but there's not a whole lot out there now for online tools. If you want me to email you when it's ready, shoot me an email. On gmail, I'm ebeland.
- tlrobinson 19y agoBy "online" do you mean some sort of 3rd party service that you can unleash on your servers via a web app? That could be a pretty cool service. Of course you would need to prevent it from being hijacked for DDoS purposes (maybe require the admin running the test to upload a file with a key to the root of their web server, to prove it's under their control)
- ericb 19y agoBy online, I do mean a 3rd party service like you're describing. I was thinking of something like that for verification. Google webmaster tools does something similar by adding a meta tag, which is a nice way to do it.
- mronge 19y agoApacheBench is great.
- rob 19y agohttperf
- jdale27 19y agoSlashdot.
- nreece 19y agoCheckout this blog entry for some ideas http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/05/07/besiege-your-web-application-load-testing-over-http/ http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/05/07/besiege-your-web-a...
- jaydub 19y agothanks for sharing that link. I'd like to try that out.
- bmatheny 19y agoI've used JMeter (http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/ http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/) for a few years now. It's easy to use and extend. The only thing I don't like is it doesn't play nice with AJAX.
- sanswork 19y agoI've used grinder with amazon ec2 to load test one of our sites before. It worked really well once I sorted out some issues with the clients communicating with my console but it made it very easy to keep adding machines until the load/speed was an issue.
- kashif 19y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=138170 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=138170
- dedalus 19y agoI use keynote(www.keynote.com) or gomez(www.gomez.com) Better yet, would be Mercury Managed Services(MMS)
- shafqat 19y agoFantastic response... exactly why I love Hacker News! Thanks all. I'm going with JMeter for now, but will report back success or failure.