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Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter

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Re: Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter

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Post by jzelinskie »

For the things that I've work on, in addition to regular health checks, we always write custom load generators that _really_ understand the domain and were configurable to realistic traffic levels. You can always leave them running, instrument them with metrics, and plug it into your alerting infrastructure so that you can page based on "realistic" client-side observable behavior. It's a super useful addition to the occasional time you need to do a performance/scale test.

Is there a generic load tester that allows you to define enough calling information about the APIs to get the same level of value out that I described?

Re: Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter

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Post by guidedlight »

idoubtit wrote: post #4

JMeter has literally hundreds more features than this. This tool (apart from the non-free licence) seems more similar to `ab` and the dozens other http benchmarking tools (like siege, wrk, httperf, and others I haven't tried), with an added basic GUI. The last time I used JMeter to load test a site, I simulated many users: each thread logged into the site with its own account, selected a course (it was a LMS, Learnin…

I can’t stand JMeter’s drag and drop test plan interface.

Everything should be code.

I actually prefer LoadRunner. But it’s way too expensive.

Re: Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter

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Post by rhl314 »

guidedlight wrote: post #12
idoubtit wrote: post #4

JMeter has literally hundreds more features than this. This tool (apart from the non-free licence) seems more similar to `ab` and the dozens other http benchmarking tools (like siege, wrk, httperf, and others I haven't tried), with an added basic GUI. The last time I used JMeter to load test a site, I simulated many users: each thread logged into the site with its own account, selected a course (it was a LMS, Learnin…

I can’t stand JMeter’s drag and drop test plan interface. Everything should be code. I actually prefer LoadRunner. But it’s way too expensive.

I am working on a scripting interface for Loadjitsu as well. You will be able to run tests using a small DSL very soon.

Re: Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter

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Post by rhl314 »

idoubtit wrote: post #4

JMeter has literally hundreds more features than this. This tool (apart from the non-free licence) seems more similar to `ab` and the dozens other http benchmarking tools (like siege, wrk, httperf, and others I haven't tried), with an added basic GUI. The last time I used JMeter to load test a site, I simulated many users: each thread logged into the site with its own account, selected a course (it was a LMS, Learnin…

I agree JMeter is a great tool, it has tons of features. Will be gradualy adding more to Loadjitsu, one day I hope it can compete with JMeter

Re: Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter

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Post by rhl314 »

jzelinskie wrote: post #11

For the things that I've work on, in addition to regular health checks, we always write custom load generators that _really_ understand the domain and were configurable to realistic traffic levels. You can always leave them running, instrument them with metrics, and plug it into your alerting infrastructure so that you can page based on "realistic" client-side observable behavior. It's a super useful addition to the…

I am working on a scripting framework for Loadjitsu. You should be able to run custom tests with domain specific inputs

Re: Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter

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Post by rhl314 »

benjaminkitt wrote: post #3

Your mac download appears to be broken. Downloads as loadjitsu-mac-0.0.2 but my Mac doesn't know what to do with it. Tried appending .dmg and .zip with no luck. Excited to try out the app when it's fixed :)

Hey thanks for reporting this. It is a single go binary Please do the following after you have downloaded 1. chmod +x loadjitsu-mac-.0.0.2 2. ./loadjitsu-mac-0.0.2 server This should start the load testing server

Re: Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter

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Post by kjellsbells »

I like it. And dont be discouraged by anyone who says, "but Jmeter can do X".

More fundamentally, the load testing space feelsnlong overdue for a shakeup. I feel its like network tracing was before Wireshark/ethereal showed up. You had ludicrously pricey fixed tools like Sniffer, weird point tools like ms netmon, and then one day wireshark showed up and totally upended the market. Today i see similar on testing, i mean ixia, landslide, jmeter...time for a revolution?

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