Reputation: 297

Approach for generating a lot of REST API traffic

I am building a traffic generator to generate stateful REST traffic. My thought is to load up a canned web-based application and just try HTTP queries continuously. However, because I wish to deploy this on small VM's, it would ideal to not to host an actual web service, but some type of simulator. Is there a reference REST stress test server library available for users to write custom REST API wrappers?

Upvotes: 1

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RocketRaccoon

Reputation: 2609

You may try to Yandex Tank. It could use different load generators (default phantom or jmeter) and provide very useful features in load management and reporting.

Upvotes: 0

Dmitri T

Reputation: 168197

Depending on the load you want to conduct:

Small load (i.e. from one machine) - SoapUI (see Using SoapUI for load testing). Also SoapUI doesn't produce very good results to analyse.
Immense load (i.e. from multiple machines) - Apache JMeter (see Testing SOAP/REST Web Services Using JMeter). JMeter can be launched from a single machine as well and it provides better readable and understandable results especially with JMeter Plugins

Upvotes: 0

Christian Witts

Reputation: 11585

You can take a look at Locust which is an open source load generation tool, written in Python.

Upvotes: 3

Pesha

Reputation: 87

I think you can use Apache JMeter (http://jmeter.apache.org/) tool to generate HTTP queries to your application.

Upvotes: 4

Approach for generating a lot of REST API traffic

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