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What's some alternatives to this, that also has "scenarios" or similar so you could simulate real user flows, but a lot of them? Should be self-hosted.

What I've found so far:

- jmeter - classic, true and tested, works well but config format is a hassle to deal with

- gatling - works well in general, but the reporting in the open source version is very basic, probably because they have "enterprise" features around reporting (that starts at $400/month)

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> jmeter - classic, true and tested, works well but config format is a hassle to deal with

You can use Taurus [1] to write scenarios in yaml files instead of using JMeter's JMX.

[1] https://gettaurus.org/kb/Basic1/

That's neat, thanks for the suggesting! I've used https://github.com/flood-io/ruby-jmeter that is similar to Taurus, ruby DSL for generating the JMX. Only had issues with some things not being supported but was easy to extend to support those features. Made a short presentation about ruby-jmeter a while ago (6 years): https://slides.com/victorbjelkholm-old/jmeter-ruby-do-perfor...

Artillery is another one.

https://artillery.io/docs/http-reference/

There's also ab (Apache Benchmark) which is super simple and can be all you need sometimes.

Ab support only http 1.0 requests, I recommend wrk instead: https://github.com/wg/wrk

And is included in MacOS (as I discovered after trying to install it for 10min).

Simple example (-c is concurrency, -n is total number of requests to make, -H for headers):

    ab -c 20 -n 50000 'https://someurl.com/someendpoint'

drill is relatively new but shows promise:

https://github.com/fcsonline/drill

K6 is my usual go-to, since it can import Postman request files (which makes it easier to simulate more complex requests with file uploads and such), and is highly configurable.

https://k6.io/

+1 for Gatling. I agree with the reporting part. Although the basic version is good enough for the 80% use case

locust maybe?

Tsung

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