Lesser known Stress testing Utility - Siege

Siege is a HTTP/HTTPS Stress testing tool.

Here is the man page for it.

Here is short intro from the man page -

Siege is a multi-threaded http load testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure the performance of their code under duress. It allows one to hit a web server with a configurable number of concurrent simulated users.

A basic command for testing a web app locally is

siege http://localhost:8000/?q=pants -c10 -t10s

c -> number of concurrent users
t -> time for running tests for.


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