ab

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Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool.

Examples (6)

Execute 100 HTTP GET requests to a given URL

ab -n 100 url

Execute 100 HTTP GET requests, in concurrent batches of 10, to a URL

ab -n 100 -c 10 url

Execute 100 HTTP POST requests to a URL, using a JSON payload from a file

ab -n 100 -T application/json -p path/to/file.json url

Use HTTP [k]eep-Alive, i.e. perform multiple requests within one HTTP session

ab -k url

Set the maximum number of seconds ([t]imeout) to spend for benchmarking (30 by default)

ab -t 60 url

Write the results to a CSV file

ab -e path/to/file.csv