What is hey?

HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement

hey is a tiny program that sends some load to a web application.

hey was originally called boom and was influenced from Tarek Ziade’s tool at tarekziade/boom. Using the same name was a mistake as it resulted in cases where binary name conflicts created confusion. To preserve the name for its original owner, we renamed this project to hey.

How to download?

• Linux 64-bit: https://hey-release.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/hey_linux_amd64
• Mac 64-bit: https://hey-release.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/hey_darwin_amd64
• Windows 64-bit: https://hey-release.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/hey_windows_amd64

How to install in Linux?

$ wget https://hey-release.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/hey_linux_amd64
$ echo $PATH
$ mv hey_linux_amd64 hey
$ mv hey /usr/local/bin
$ hey
$ chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/heyCode language: PHP (php)

Reference

https://github.com/rakyll/hey

Usages:

Usage: hey [options...] <url>

Options:
  -n  Number of requests to run. Default is 200.
  -c  Number of workers to run concurrently. Total number of requests cannot
      be smaller than the concurrency level. Default is 50.
  -q  Rate limit, in queries per second (QPS) per worker. Default is no rate limit.
  -z  Duration of application to send requests. When duration is reached,
      application stops and exits. If duration is specified, n is ignored.
      Examples: -z 10s -z 3m.
  -o  Output type. If none provided, a summary is printed.
      "csv" is the only supported alternative. Dumps the response
      metrics in comma-separated values format.

  -m  HTTP method, one of GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS.
  -H  Custom HTTP header. You can specify as many as needed by repeating the flag.
      For example, -H "Accept: text/html" -H "Content-Type: application/xml" .
  -t  Timeout for each request in seconds. Default is 20, use 0 for infinite.
  -A  HTTP Accept header.
  -d  HTTP request body.
  -D  HTTP request body from file. For example, /home/user/file.txt or ./file.txt.
  -T  Content-type, defaults to "text/html".
  -a  Basic authentication, username:password.
  -x  HTTP Proxy address as host:port.
  -h2 Enable HTTP/2.

  -host	HTTP Host header.

  -disable-compression  Disable compression.
  -disable-keepalive    Disable keep-alive, prevents re-use of TCP
                        connections between different HTTP requests.
  -disable-redirects    Disable following of HTTP redirects
  -cpus                 Number of used cpu cores.
                        (default for current machine is 8 cores)Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Rajesh Kumar

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