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Load test with Locust

I had a very nice experience doing some load analysis with locust :

# docker-compose.yml
version: '3'

services:
  master:
    image: locustio/locust
    ports:
     - "8089:8089"
    volumes:
      - ./:/mnt/locust
    command: -f /mnt/locust/locustfile.py --master -H http://master:8089
  
  worker:
    image: locustio/locust
    volumes:
      - ./:/mnt/locust
    command: -f /mnt/locust/locustfile.py --worker --master-host master

You need a locustfile.py in the same directory:

from locust import HttpUser, task

class HomeUser(HttpUser):
    @task
    def home(self):
        self.client.get("/")

$ docker pull locustio/locust
$ docker-compose up --scale worker=4

When you open localhost:8089, you can then set the number of requests, and the host, and you get a curve like this one:

Conversely, I tried to do the same thing with tools like apache bench or siege.

$ ab -k -n 1000 -c 100 https://some-website.fr/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1843412 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking some-website.fr (be patient).....done


Server Software:        Apache
Server Hostname:        some-website.fr
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        173521 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   1.212 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Keep-Alive requests:    100
Total transferred:      17422593 bytes
HTML transferred:       17352100 bytes
Requests per second:    82.51 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       1211.973 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       12.120 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          14038.47 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       32   41   1.6     41      42
Processing:   170  526 171.9    596    1090
Waiting:       38   58   9.2     59      77
Total:        207  567 172.0    637    1131

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    637
  66%    670
  75%    680
  80%    690
  90%    725
  95%    837
  98%   1089
  99%   1131
 100%   1131 (longest request)

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