HTTP/2 load testing with Vegeta

by tsenart on 4/5/2016, 4:25 PM with 15 comments
  • by jgrahamc on 4/5/2016, 5:21 PM

    Nice. I'll add to my list of tools for debugging and testing HTTP/2: https://blog.cloudflare.com/tools-for-debugging-testing-and-...

  • by caleblloyd on 4/5/2016, 6:42 PM

    How does the HTTP/2 implementation work?

    Does it open a single TCP connection, then fire all load testing requests over that connection, or does it open multiple TCP connections and spread the load testing requests over multiple connections?

  • by Matthias247 on 4/5/2016, 6:34 PM

    However it seems like only h2 (HTTP/2 over TLS) is supported and not h2c (HTTP/2 over TCP with upgrade handshake) or HTTP/2 with prior knowledge.

    It's a bit unfortunate that because of the decision of the browser vendors to support only HTTP/2 over TLS (for valid reasons) now a lot of libraries and tools support only that mode. For lots of other applications HTTP/2 without TLS would be helpful too.

  • by brndn on 4/5/2016, 5:26 PM

    I was just about to start looking into some http load testing tools, so I am glad to see this come up. Do people recommend this tool? What are some competitors? Can you produce enough load from your average laptop to effectively load test a web server?

  • by liopleurodon on 4/5/2016, 7:52 PM

    can't get to the page.

    is the load over 9000?