Swanling

Swanling is a tool for load testing and benchmarking websites and HTTP based micro-services.

The Swanling road-map envisions features that are not typically found in benchmarking or load testing tools.

Features

See Road-map for forthcoming features. These features can be relied on in the current major release series (v0):

• nanomsg-NG based distributed workers.
• Coordinated omission mitigation

Documentation

• User documentation
• Developer documentation

Road-map

These features are incomplete or off by default.

• Robust to Coordinated omission
• Histogram storage
• Request models

History

Swanling started as a fork of Goose. Many thanks to Jeremy Andrews and the other Goose contributors:

• Jeremy Andrews
• Fabian Franz
• Narayan Newton
• Bernardo Uriarte Blanco
• David Laban
• jcarres-mdsol
• Alexander Liesenfeld
• nnewton
• Igor Davydenko
• Michael Edwards
• Vladislav Chugunov

Alternatives

• Apachebench (C)
• Artillery (NodeJS)
• Autocannon (NodeJS)
• Bombardier (Go)
• Cassowary (Go)
• Drill (Rust)
• Gatling
• Swanling (Rust)
• h2load (C)
• Hey (Go)
• Jmeter (Java)
• K6 (Go)
• Locust (Python)
• Siege (C)
• SlowHTTPTest
• Tsung (Erlang)
• Vegeta (Go)
• Wrk2 (C)
• Wrk (C)