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Using h2load for REST API benchmarking
Carvia Tech | March 22, 2019 | 3 min read | 92 views
h2load is a benchmarking tool for HTTP/2 and HTTP/1 with support for SSL/TLS. h2load uses non-blocking io for making concurrent calls to target endpoint, thus does not cause much load on the running system since single thread can make thousands of requests per second.
Installation on macOS
If you have homebrew installed on your mac, installing h2load is just a matter of running a single command:
Usage
- -n
-
the total number of requests. Default: 1
- -c
-
the number of concurrent clients. Default: 1
- -m
-
The max concurrent streams to issue per client. Default: 1
- -t
-
the number of native threads. Defaults: 1.
- --header
-
Add/Override a header to the request.
- -v
-
Output debug information.
- -h
-
displays help information.
- -p
-
can be used to specify protocol, by default HTTP/2 is used. Available protocols are:
h2candhttp/1.1, default ish2c. Alternatively, you can always use--h1option to force HTTP/1.1 for both cleartext and SSL/TLS.
Basic load testing
below command will perform benchmark to URI http://localhost:8080/health.json using total 10000 requests, 100 concurrent clients and each client creating maxmium 10 concurrent streams.
Benchmarking HTTP/1.1 endpoint using h2load
h2load -n10000 -c100 -m10 --h1 "http://localhost:8080/health.json". (1)| 1 | h1 flag is used to enforce HTTP/1.1 instead of default HTTP/2 which requires SSL/TLS connection. |
Results will look like below:
finished in 233.18s, 0.43 req/s, 105B/s
requests: 100 total, 100 started, 100 done, 100 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 errored, 0 timeout
status codes: 100 2xx, 0 3xx, 0 4xx, 0 5xx
traffic: 23.93KB (24500) total, 15.53KB (15900) headers (space savings 0.00%), 4.20KB (4300) data
min max mean sd +/- sd
time for request: 9.22s 29.59s 22.60s 3.01s 72.00%
time for connect: 599.74ms 599.90ms 599.80ms 51us 70.00%
time to 1st byte: 20.26s 24.39s 23.16s 1.47s 80.00%
req/s : 0.04 0.05 0.04 0.00 80.00%For HTTP/2 endpoints, we do not need to supply --h1 flag, so the command will look like this:
Benchmarking HTTP/2 endpoint using h2load
h2load -n100 -c10 -m1 https://dapi.shunyafoundation.com/sidecar-pdf/health.jsonResults
finished in 483.09ms, 207.00 req/s, 19.41KB/s
requests: 100 total, 100 started, 100 done, 100 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 errored, 0 timeout
status codes: 100 2xx, 0 3xx, 0 4xx, 0 5xx
traffic: 9.38KB (9600) total, 5.58KB (5710) headers (space savings 41.73%), 1.56KB (1600) data
min max mean sd +/- sd
time for request: 4.60ms 127.90ms 16.85ms 23.37ms 95.00%
time for connect: 44.08ms 238.06ms 149.53ms 94.32ms 60.00%
time to 1st byte: 54.88ms 347.46ms 215.60ms 143.15ms 70.00%
req/s : 20.76 77.99 44.12 26.95 60.00%Time based load testing
h2load supports time based load-testing. Using this method will perform time based load testing in terms of a given duration instead of a pre-defined number of requests.
- --warm-up-time
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warms up period
- --duration
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duration in seconds for which benchmarking will run against the server, if supplied,
-noption is ignored by h2load client.
For example, the below command will perform load-testing for 10 seconds after 5 seconds of warming up period.
h2load -c100 -m100 --duration=10 --warm-up-time=5 --h1 http://localhost:8080/health.jsonAdding HTTP Headers
We can easily add HTTP headers in request using --header flag, the below example illustrates this:
h2load -n1000 -c10 -m1 --header="accept-encoding: gzip" https://localhost:443/health.jsonRequest Timeout Headers
We can set connection timeout in seconds using available flags --connection-active-timeout and --connection-inactivity-timeout
h2load -t2 -n10 -c10 -m1 --connection-active-timeout=3 --connection-inactivity-timeout=3 https://www.google.com/When no timeout value is set (either active or inactive), h2load will keep a connection open indefinitely, waiting for a response.
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