Open Source Linux Load Testing Tools
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View 41 business solutionsBrowse free open source Load Testing tools and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Load Testing tools by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Apache JMeter
Load testing tool for analyzing and measuring performance of services
The Apache JMeter™ application is open-source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions. Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources, Web dynamic applications. It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server, group of servers, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types. -
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k6
A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript
The best developer experience for load testing. Open source and SaaS for engineering teams. Test early and continuously—break the QA silo in performance testing. Backend and frontend engineers prevent regressions when running performance tests. Test scalability to improve your reliability targets. Test SLOs and avoid SLA breaches. Shift left and collaborate with developers for effective and continuous testing. Use the same script for local, distributed, and cloud tests. Migrate from local tests to the cloud using the same script for both environments. Verify that applications can handle the expected traffic. Adapt your testing: stress tests, peak tests, soak tests, etc. Mix browser and API testing—interact with real browsers and collect frontend metrics to get a holistic user view. Simulate real-world traffic in your chaos experiments. Inject system failures in your k6 tests. -
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ali
Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time
Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time. A load testing tool capable of performing real-time analysis, inspired by vegeta and jplot. ali comes with an embedded terminal-based UI where you can plot the metrics in real-time, so lets you perform real-time analysis on the terminal. Press l (or h) to switch the displayed chart. On all charts, you can click and drag to select a region to zoom into. -
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Fortio
Fortio load testing library, command line tool, advanced echo server
Fortio (Φορτίο) started as, and is, Istio’s load testing tool and later (2018) graduated to be its own open-source project. Fortio runs at a specified query per second (qps) and records an histogram of execution time and calculates percentiles (e.g. p99 ie the response time such as 99% of the requests take less than that number (in seconds, SI unit)). It can run for a set duration, for a fixed number of calls, or until interrupted (at a constant target QPS, or max speed/load per connection/thread). Fortio is a fast, small (4Mb docker image, minimal dependencies), reusable, embeddable go library as well as a command line tool and server process, the server includes a simple web UI and REST API to trigger run and see graphical representation of the results (both a single latency graph and a multiple results comparative min, max, avg, qps and percentiles graphs). -
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Locust
Scalable open source load testing tool
Locust is an open source user load testing tool written in Python. The idea behind Locust is to swarm your web site or other systems with attacks from simulated users during a test, with each user behavior defined by you using Python code. This swarming process is then monitored from a web UI in real-time, and will help identify any bottlenecks in your code before real users can come in. As it is completely event-based, Locust can have thousands or even millions of simultaneous users distributed over multiple machines swarming your system. Unlike other event-based apps, it doesn’t use callbacks but uses lightweight processes instead, so you can write very expressive scenarios in Python without complicating it with callbacks. -
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Ddosify
High-performance load testing tool, written in Golang
vLoad tests should be done regularly to avoid being caught unprepared. Find out the maximum service capacity of your web system. Start the test either instantly or for a future date. Define your periodic load tests. Without load tests, businesses understand the load capacity of their systems when they become inaccessible during campaign times such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Determine the origins of requests and the test duration with our easy-to-use web interfaces. Review past load tests and general performance from our reports and charts. Adjust the origin of the requests from 100+ locations. Existing solutions are costly and limited. So we’ve developed a brand-new load generator. Customize your tests with scenarios on UI. Without a line of code! Insightful reports and charts to improve your service capability. -
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ESM
Tomorrow's ECMAScript modules today
esm is a JavaScript module loader that enables the use of ECMAScript modules (ESM) in Node.js environments, providing a seamless way to work with modern JavaScript syntax in older Node.js versions. -
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Zerocode
API automation and load testing framework
A community-developed, free, open source, microservices API automation and load testing framework built using JUnit core runners for Http REST, SOAP, Security, Database, Kafka and much more. Zerocode Open Source enables you to create, change, orchestrate and maintain your automated test cases declaratively with absolute ease. Zerocode makes it easy to create and maintain automated tests with absolute minimum overhead for REST,SOAP, Kafka Real Time Data Streams and much more. It has the best of best ideas and practices from the community to keep it super simple, and the adoption is rapidly growing among the developer/tester community. Zerocode is a modern lightweight, simple and extensible open-source framework for writing test intentions in simple JSON or YAML format that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. Put simply, Zerocode alleviates pain and brings simplicity to modern API automation. -
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LOIC-0
A NETWORK STRESS TOOL BASED ON PRAETOX LOIC
Low Orbit Ion Cannon - 0 (LOIC-0) The original Low Orbit Ion Cannon with interface improvements. ALSO NOTED VERSION 1.0 OF LOIC-0 IS VERSION 1.2 OF LOIC AND SO ON. DISCLAIMER: USE ON YOUR OWN RISK. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THIS TOOL IS RELEASED WITH NO WARRANTY AT ALL. TAGS: LOIC,Low Orbit Ion Cannon, network, stress test, security software, network tool, Windows,Linux, LOWC, Low Orbit Web Cannon, network, stress testing, load testing, server load testing, server testing. -
Application Monitoring That Won't Slow Your App DownFull APM with errors, performance, logs, and uptime monitoring. 99.999% uptime SLA on the platform itself.
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dperf
DPDK based 100Gbps network performance and load testing software
dperf is a DPDK based 100Gbps network performance and load testing software. Based on DPDK, dperf can generate huge traffic with a single x86 server: tens of millions of HTTP CPS，hundreds of Gbps throughput and billions of concurrent connections. Provides detailed statistics and identify every packet loss. Support multiple scenarios. Load testing and stability testing for Layer 4 Load Balancer and other Layer 4 gateways. Network performance testing for servers on cloud. Performance test of network package processing capability for NIC and CPU. Can be used as a high-performance HTTP server or client for load testing. -
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Drill
Drill is an HTTP load testing application written in Rust
Drill is an HTTP load-testing application written in Rust. The main goal for this project is to build a really lightweight tool as an alternative to other that require JVM and other stuff. You can write benchmark files, in YAML format, describing all the stuff you want to test. It was inspired by Ansible syntax because it is really easy to use and extend. As you can see, you can play with interpolations in different ways. This will let you specify a benchmark with different requests and dependencies between them. Right now, the easiest way to get drill is to go to the latest release page and download the binary file for your platform. OpenSSL is needed in order to compile Drill, whether it is through cargo install or when compiling from source with cargo build. -
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GoReplay
The Swiss Army knife for testing and monitoring
Increase confidence in code deployments, configuration changes and infrastructure changes with GoReplay! GoReplay is an innovative open source tool that captures and replays live HTTP traffic, using it to continuously test your system with real data. Now you don’t have to put up with risks that come with putting a third-party component in the critical path. With GoReplay you can analyze and record your application traffic without affecting it whatsoever. Use it for shadowing, load testing, monitoring and detailed analysis. You can trust GoReplay to accurately emulate production environments so you can make changes and deploy with confidence. -
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r-u-dead-yet
R-U-Dead-Yet? (RUDY) Original source code files
R-U-Dead-Yet, or RUDY for short, implements the generic HTTP DoS attack via long form field submissions. RUDY attack targets web applications by starvation of available sessions on the web server. RUDY keeps sessions at halt using never-ending POST transmissions and sending an arbitrarily large content-length header value. Licensed under the GNU GPL v3 DISCLAIMER: USE ON YOUR OWN RISK. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THIS TOOL IS RELEASED WITH NO WARRANTY AT ALL. -
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The Grinder
Distributed load testing framework - Java, Jython, or Clojure scripts.
The Grinder is a load testing framework that makes it easy to run a distributed test using many load injector machines. Test scripts are written in Jython, and can call out to arbitrary Java code, providing support for testing a large range of network protocols. The Grinder comes with a mature plug-in for testing HTTP services, HTTP scripts can be recorded easily from a browser session. -
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Gatling Studio
Desktop app that helps you craft Gatling load-testing simulations
Gatling Studio is a native desktop application created to simplify the creation of Gatling load-testing simulations from real browser traffic. Instead of hand-writing scenarios in Scala or Java from scratch, you use Gatling Studio to drive a Chromium-based browser through a typical user journey. The tool captures all HTTP and HTTPS requests and responses, saves them as a HAR file, and then automatically converts that data into a structured Gatling project with groups, pauses, and exec blocks. It includes logic to filter out noisy or irrelevant requests such as font files, analytics beacons, and static assets, so the generated scenario focuses on the core business interactions. The output is a ready-to-run Gatling project (Java/Maven) that can be executed locally or uploaded to Gatling Enterprise to run at scale. Gatling Studio targets performance engineers and QA teams who want a low-code path from “record what a user does in the browser” to “run a realistic load test.” -
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winrk
Winrk is an HTTP benchmarking tool for Windows users, inspired by wrk.
Winrk is a modern high-performance HTTP benchmarking tool for Windows. Inspired by the popular wrk utility, Winrk provides similar capabilities but is fully compatible with the Windows platform, making it ideal for developers and testers who need to stress-test web servers without relying on Linux or WSL. Written in Rust, Winrk leverages native multithreading and asynchronous networking to generate a high number of requests per second with minimal overhead. It is easy to use, fast to deploy, and built with stability and precision in mind. Whether you're testing local services or public APIs, Winrk helps you analyze performance, latency, and throughput under load, right from the Windows command line. Source code: https://github.com/fomalhaut88/winrk -
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LOIC-SLOW
LOIC-0 WITH SOME LOWBANDWITH NETWORK STRESSING TOOLS ADDED
LOIC-SLOW Low Orbit Ion Cannon- Special Lowbandwith Operating Weapon LOIC-SLOW stands for LOIC - Low Orbit Ion Cannon SLOW - Special Lowbandwith Operating Weapon THE NEXT GENERATION OF LOIC-0 DISCLAIMER: USE ON YOUR OWN RISK. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. THIS TOOL IS RELEASED WITH NO WARRANTY AT ALL. TAGS: LOIC, Low Orbit Ion Cannon, network, stress testing, load testing, server load testing, server testing. -
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The SoapUI download has moved to https://www.soapui.org/downloads/soapui/source-forge.html With more than 9 million downloads SoapUI is the de-facto standard for REST and SOAP API functional, security and performance testing.
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VPN Load Tester
A tool to perform load testing on IPFire's OpenVPN server
VPN Load Tester is a tool to perform load testing on IPFire's OpenVPN server. By using KVM and Libvirt in a CentOS 6 server, it is able to create a large number of virtual VPN clients and connect those client machines to the VPN server at the same time. It is able to control all VPN clients to perform the same tasks on the VPN server. For example, it is able to control all VPN clients to send network traffic to the VPN server at the same time. -
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LOIC-IRC-0
LOIC-0 Now with IRC control
A new version of LOIC-0 with IRC control. Also LOIC SLOW with IRC control. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TOOL IS RELEASED UNDER GPLv3 LICENSE. DISCLAIMER: USE ON YOUR OWN RISK. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES TAGS: LOIC, Low Orbit Ion Cannon, network, stress testing, load testing, server load testing, server testing, IRC, LOIC IRC. -
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Web application load testing tool written in Java. Uses a central console to manage remote simulations allowing for a large number of virtual users. Can test fullblown web applications requiring cookies and complex querystring and formdata.
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GoldenEye
The GoldenEye HTTP DoS Test tool
GoldenEye is an python app for SECURITY TESTING PURPOSES ONLY! GoldenEye is a HTTP DoS Test Tool. Attack Vector exploited: HTTP Keep Alive + NoCache See README more details. Please note that this is a fork from the original at GitHub by https://github.com/jseidl Jan Seidl. And Official project link is https://github.com/jseidl/GoldenEye License This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) DISCLAIMER: USE ON YOUR OWN RISK. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. -
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Slow HTTP Test
SlowHTTPTest Original files
SlowHTTPTest is a highly configurable tool that simulates some Application Layer Denial of Service attacks. It works on majority of Linux platforms, OSX and Cygwin - a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. Please note that this is a fork from google code. https://code.google.com/p/slowhttptest/ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 DISCLAIMER: USE ON YOUR OWN RISK. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THIS TOOL IS RELEASED WITH NO WARRANTY AT ALL. -
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Addanc is a distributed/scalable system for stress/load testing web based applications. Addanc tests focus on the arrival rate of service requests rather than a fixed number of simulated clients.
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UNMAINTAINED: Try https://github.com/pjoe/loadem instead This project aims to provide a tool for load testing web applications. The goal is a tool that is easy to use and provides near real-time performance measurements of the application under test which is very usefull during optimization.
