ab

Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool.

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• 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 to spend for benchmarking:

ab -t {60} {url}

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