ApacheBench - A quick n' easy performance test for your REST applications

ApacheBench is only useful for benchmarking POST or GET requests but is quick to set up and gives details results.

ab – ApacheBench is should be installed by default on Ubuntu

Example:

ab -n 100 -T 'application/xml' -A 'user:password' -p customer.xml -d http://172.18.48.67:8080/ws/1.1.1/resources/customers

-n number of requests

-c number of threads

-T content-type

-A authentication

-p POST filename

The output:

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>

Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/

Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking 172.18.48.67 (be patient).....done

Server Software:        Apache-Coyote/1.1

Server Hostname:      172.18.48.67

Server Port:                8080

Document Path:            /ws/1.1.1/resources/customers

Document Length:        1035 bytes

Concurrency Level:        1

Time taken for tests:       660.109 seconds

Complete requests:         100

Failed requests:              0

Write errors:                  0

Total transferred:           132700 bytes

Total POSTed:               79000

HTML transferred:       103500 bytes

Requests per second:    0.15 [#/sec] (mean)

Time per request:          6601.087 [ms] (mean)

Time per request:         6601.087 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

Transfer rate:               0.20 [Kbytes/sec] received

                                    0.12 kb/s sent

                                    0.31 kb/s total

Connection Times (ms)

              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max

Connect:        0    0   1.2      0      11

Processing:  5363 6601 810.4   6590    8179

Waiting:     5362 6600 810.2   6590    8178

Total:       5363 6601 810.3   6590    8179