Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app?

Posted by shafqat on Sunday April 06, 2008 @06:33PM
from the self-post dept.

Need to load test our web app - any recommendations for tools that are easy to set up? I heard about JCrawler, but looking for something even simpler. Is there any simple online tool that can do this? Thanks a lot!

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Re:Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app? by bmatheny on Sunday April 06, 2008 @11:18PM (#156632)

I've used JMeter (http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/) for a few years now. It's easy to use and extend. The only thing I don't like is it doesn't play nice with AJAX.

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Re:Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app? by nreece on Sunday April 06, 2008 @10:18PM (#156603)

Checkout this blog entry for some ideas http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/05/07/besiege-your-web-a...

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Re:Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app? by jaydub on Sunday April 06, 2008 @10:41PM (#156616)

thanks for sharing that link. I'd like to try that out.

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Re:Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app? by jdale27 on Sunday April 06, 2008 @10:14PM (#156600)

Slashdot.

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Re:Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app? by mronge on Sunday April 06, 2008 @07:45PM (#156502)

ApacheBench is great.

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Re:Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app? by sanswork on Monday April 07, 2008 @12:22AM (#156660)

I've used grinder with amazon ec2 to load test one of our sites before. It worked really well once I sorted out some issues with the clients communicating with my console but it made it very easy to keep adding machines until the load/speed was an issue.

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Re:Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app? by ericb on Sunday April 06, 2008 @07:39PM (#156500)

I'm working on a tool now that should be dead easy, but there's not a whole lot out there now for online tools. If you want me to email you when it's ready, shoot me an email. On gmail, I'm ebeland.

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Re:Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app? by tlrobinson on Sunday April 06, 2008 @09:32PM (#156567)

By "online" do you mean some sort of 3rd party service that you can unleash on your servers via a web app?

That could be a pretty cool service. Of course you would need to prevent it from being hijacked for DDoS purposes (maybe require the admin running the test to upload a file with a key to the root of their web server, to prove it's under their control)

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Re:Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app? by ericb on Sunday April 06, 2008 @09:51PM (#156582)

By online, I do mean a 3rd party service like you're describing.

I was thinking of something like that for verification. Google webmaster tools does something similar by adding a meta tag, which is a nice way to do it.

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Re:Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app? by shafqat on Monday April 07, 2008 @07:18PM (#157291)

Fantastic response... exactly why I love Hacker News! Thanks all. I'm going with JMeter for now, but will report back success or failure.

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Re:Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app? by kashif on Monday April 07, 2008 @07:35AM (#156799)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=138170

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Re:Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app? by dedalus on Monday April 07, 2008 @12:16PM (#156946)

I use keynote(www.keynote.com) or gomez(www.gomez.com) Better yet, would be Mercury Managed Services(MMS)

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Re:Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app? by rob on Sunday April 06, 2008 @07:59PM (#156511)

httperf

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