README.md

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Getting started

Get the code into your workspace

cd $GOPATH/src
git clone https://github.com/v3io/http_blaster.git

Build

cd $GOPATH/src/http_blaster
go get
go build

Generate workload file

title = "Workload example" - name for the test workload 
[global]
	Duration        "120s" - test total timeout
	Block_size      100 - payload of 100 bytes if no payload file given
    Server        127.0.0.1 - server address
    Port          8080 - server port
    TLSMode       false - use secure connection
    [global.StatusCodesAcceptance]
    	200 = 100   -accept upto 100% from total responses to be with status code 200
    	500 = 0.1   -accept upto 0.1% from total responses to be with status code 500

[workloads]
[workload.1]
  	Name      "test" - name for the workload (will be written in the log)
    Bucket    "1" - bucket will be used to build the access url
    File_path "test.html" - file to access
    Type      "PUT" - can be PUT or GET
    Duration  "30s" - time to send requests
    Count     0 - number of requests to send, if 0 is given then time is ending condition.
    Workers   1 - number of workers to send the request in parallel
  	Payload   "payloadfile.dat" - file path that contains the payload of the request
    [workload.1.Header]
      	range = "-1" - header key value for the request
 [workload.2]
 ...

Run the tool

./http_blaster -c [your workload file] -o [result file name]