ali
A load testing tool capable of performing real-time analysis, inspired by vegeta and jplot.
ali comes with an embedded terminal-based UI where you can plot the metrics in real-time, so lets you perform real-time analysis on the terminal.
Installation
Binary releases are available through here.
Via Homebrew
brew install nakabonne/ali/ali
Via APT
wget https://github.com/nakabonne/ali/releases/download/v0.5.2/ali_0.5.2_linux_amd64.deb
apt install ./ali_0.5.2_linux_amd64.deb
Via RPM
curl -OL https://github.com/nakabonne/ali/releases/download/v0.5.2/ali_0.5.2_linux_amd64.rpm
rpm -i ./ali_0.5.2_linux_amd64.rpm
Via AUR
Thanks to orhun, it's available as ali in the Arch User Repository.
yay -S ali
Via Go
Note that you may have a problem because it downloads an untagged binary.
go get github.com/nakabonne/ali
Via Docker
docker run --rm -it nakabonne/ali ali
Usage
Quickstart
ali http://host.xz
Replace http://host.xz with the target you want to issue the requests to.
Press Enter when the UI appears, then the attack will be launched with default options.
Options
ali -h
Usage:
ali [flags] <target URL>
Flags:
-b, --body string A request body to be sent.
-B, --body-file string The path to file whose content will be set as the http request body.
--buckets Histogram buckets in comma-separated value (example: "10ms, 100ms, 500ms".
-c, --connections int Amount of maximum open idle connections per target host (default 10000)
--debug Run in debug mode.
-d, --duration duration The amount of time to issue requests to the targets. Give 0s for an infinite attack. (default 10s)
-H, --header strings A request header to be sent. Can be used multiple times to send multiple headers.
--local-addr string Local IP address. (default "0.0.0.0")
-M, --max-body int Max bytes to capture from response bodies. Give -1 for no limit. (default -1)
-W, --max-workers uint Amount of maximum workers to spawn. (default 18446744073709551615)
-m, --method string An HTTP request method for each request. (default "GET")
--no-http2 Don't issue HTTP/2 requests to servers which support it.
-K, --no-keepalive Don't use HTTP persistent connection.
-r, --rate int The request rate per second to issue against the targets. Give 0 then it will send requests as fast as possible. (default 50)
-t, --timeout duration The timeout for each request. 0s means to disable timeouts. (default 30s)
-v, --version Print the current version.
-w, --workers uint Amount of initial workers to spawn. (default 10)
Valid time units are "ns", "us" (or "µs"), "ms", "s", "m", "h".
Charts
Press l (or h) to switch the displayed chart. On all charts, you can click and drag to select a region to zoom into.
Latency
The X-axis represents the request counts and the Y-axis represents latencies in milliseconds.
Percentiles
You can see how the 50th, 90th, 95th, and 99th percentiles are changing.
Bytes
TBA
Histogram
TBA
Features
Plot in real-time
Visualize the attack progress
This will help you during long tests.
Mouse support
With the help of mum4k/termdash can be used intuitively.
Acknowledgements
This project would not have been possible without the effort of many individuals and projects but especially vegeta for the inspiration and powerful API.
Besides, ali is built with termdash (as well as termbox-go) for the rendering of all those fancy graphs on the terminal.
They clearly stimulated an incentive to creation. A big "thank you!" goes out to all those who helped.