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Plow is an HTTP(S) benchmarking tool, written in Golang. It uses
excellent fasthttp instead of Go's default
net/http due to its lightning fast performance.
Plow runs at a specified connections(option -c) concurrently and real-time records a summary statistics, histogram
of execution time and calculates percentiles to display on Web UI and terminal. It can run for a set duration(
option -d), for a fixed number of requests(option -n), or until Ctrl-C interrupted.
The implementation of real-time computing Histograms and Quantiles using stream-based algorithms inspired
by prometheus with low memory and CPU bounds. so it's almost no
additional performance overhead for benchmarking.
Binary and image distributions are available through the releases
assets page.
Via Go
go install github.com/six-ddc/plow@latest
Via Homebrew
# brew update
brew install plow
Via Docker
docker run --rm --net=host ghcr.io/six-ddc/plow
# docker run --rm -p 18888:18888 ghcr.io/six-ddc/plow
Usage
Options
usage: plow [<flags>] <url>
A high-performance HTTP benchmarking tool with real-time web UI and terminal displaying
Examples:
plow http://127.0.0.1:8080/ -c 20 -n 100000
plow https://httpbin.org/post -c 20 -d 5m --body @file.json -T 'application/json' -m POST
Flags:
--help Show context-sensitive help.
-c, --concurrency=1 Number of connections to run concurrently
--rate=infinity Number of requests per time unit, examples: --rate 50 --rate 10/ms
--ramp-up=-1 Concurrently will increase pre seconds
-n, --requests=-1 Number of requests to run
-d, --duration=DURATION Duration of test, examples: -d 10s -d 3m
-i, --interval=200ms Print snapshot result every interval, use 0 to print once at the end
--seconds Use seconds as time unit to print
--json Print snapshot result as JSON
--trace Trace latency of request phases: DNS, Connect, TLS, Write, Wait(TTFB), Read
-b, --body=BODY HTTP request body, if body starts with '@' the rest will be considered a file's path from which to read the actual body content
--stream Specify whether to stream file specified by '--body @file' using chunked encoding or to read into memory
-m, --method="GET" HTTP method
-H, --header=K:V ... Custom HTTP headers
--host=HOST Host header
-T, --content=CONTENT Content-Type header
--cert=CERT Path to the client's TLS Certificate
--key=KEY Path to the client's TLS Certificate Private Key
-k, --insecure Controls whether a client verifies the server's certificate chain and host name
--listen=":18888" Listen addr to serve Web UI
--timeout=DURATION Timeout for each http request
--dial-timeout=DURATION Timeout for dial addr
--req-timeout=DURATION Timeout for full request writing
--resp-timeout=DURATION Timeout for full response reading
--socks5=ip:port Socks5 proxy
--http-proxy=username:password@ip:port
Set HTTP proxy
--auto-open-browser Specify whether auto open browser to show web charts
--[no-]clean Clean the histogram bar once its finished. Default is true
--output-errors=OUTPUT-ERRORS
Output errors to file
--summary Only print the summary without realtime reports
--unix-socket=UNIX-SOCKET Unix domain socket path to use for connection
--version Show application version.
Flags default values also read from env PLOW_SOME_FLAG, such as PLOW_TIMEOUT=5s equals to --timeout=5s
Args:
<url> Request url
Examples
Basic usage:
plow http://127.0.0.1:8080/ -c 20 -n 10000 -d 10s
POST a json file:
plow https://httpbin.org/post -c 20 --body @file.json -T 'application/json' -m POST
DNS, Connect and TLS are only measured when a new connection is established, so their counts are the number of connections.
Write is the time of writing the request, Wait is the time from the request written to the first response byte (TTFB), Read is the time of reading the rest of the response.
When a proxy is used (--socks5 or HTTP(S)_PROXY env), the whole proxy dialing is measured as Connect.
The mean latency of each phase per second is also shown in the Web charts.
Bash/ZSH Shell Completion
# Add the statement to their bash_profile (or equivalent):
eval "$(plow --completion-script-bash)"
# Or for ZSH
eval "$(plow --completion-script-zsh)"
The most recent commit recorded on six-ddc/plow was 6 months ago, based on the GitHub push timestamp. The repository has 154 forks — one of the better signals of community interest.
Is six-ddc/plow open source?
Yes — six-ddc/plow ships under the Apache-2.0 license, which makes its source code freely readable (and, depending on license terms, forkable and reusable). Source: github.com/six-ddc/plow.
What license does six-ddc/plow use?
six-ddc/plow is released under the Apache-2.0 license. Always verify the LICENSE file directly on GitHub for the authoritative terms — license strings can be edited out of sync with a project's actual stance.
What topics is six-ddc/plow associated with?
GitHub's repository topics for six-ddc/plow: "apachebench", "cli", "http", "load", "load-testing", "performance", "realtime", "visualization", "wrk". TopGit's editorial category is Developer Tools.
Where can I see six-ddc/plow in action?
The project maintains a homepage at https://deepwiki.com/six-ddc/plow. The README tab on this page also usually contains screenshots and a quickstart.
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