Wrk [1] is my preference. Time-limited tests. Average and standard deviation on latency. And now with Lua scripting. If you must use an ApacheBench-style to

Wrk [1] is my preference. Time-limited tests. Average and standard deviation on latency. And now with Lua scripting. If you must use an ApacheBench-style tool, at least use the multi-threaded clone named WeigHTTP [2]. With high-performance servers, ApacheBench is a limiting factor. [1] https://github.com/wg/wrk https://github.com/wg/wrk [2] https://github.com/lighttpd/weighttp https://github.com/lighttpd/weighttp