tldr/pages/common/vegeta.md

vegeta

A command line utility and a library for HTTP load testing. See also ab. More information: https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta.

• Launch an attack lasting 30 seconds:

echo "{{GET https://example.com}}" | vegeta attack -duration={{30s}}

• Launch an attack on a server with a self-signed https certificate:

echo "{{GET https://example.com}}" | vegeta attack -insecure -duration={{30s}}

• Launch an attack with a rate of 10 requests per second:

echo "{{GET https://example.com}}" | vegeta attack -duration={{30s}} -rate={{10}}

• Launch an attack and display a report:

echo "{{GET https://example.com}}" | vegeta attack -duration={{30s}} | vegeta report

• Launch an attack and plot the results on a graph (latency over time):

echo "{{GET https://example.com}}" | vegeta attack -duration={{30s}} | vegeta plot > {{path/to/results.html}}

• Launch an attack against multiple URLs from a file:

vegeta attack -duration={{30s}} -targets={{requests.txt}} | vegeta report