Cicadas

Cicadas is a multi threaded HTTP load testing and benchmarking tool written in Rust and it's highly inspired by wrk. some limitations on wrk and other open source benchmarking tools, make me write my own version with features I needed. Checkout features section, maybe this is the one you're looking for.

• Installation
• Features
• Example
• Options
• Todos

Installation

Working on automation releases. for now you need to compile source code for your desired platform/arch using cargo.

Features

• Easy to use, fast and cross platform.
• By leveraging OS threads, you can efficiently utilize CPU cores to maximize connections throughput up to machine hardware limits.
• Load test your target URL behind a http or socks proxy.
• Define custom HTTP method, headers or payload for load testing the target.
• Detailed categorized analysis based on HTTP status codes.

Example

This is how you can simply use cicadas to load test https://example.com for 10 seconds with 8 connections.

cicadas -t http://localhost:5500 -m GET -d 30 -c 100

Options

Target URL for applying load test. http and https protocols are supported

-t --target <TARGET>

HTTP method. GET,POST,PUT,DELETE,HEAD and OPTIONS are available

-m --method <METHOD>

Optional proxy URL to use when load testing the target. http,https and socks protocols are available

-P --proxy <PROXY>

Load test duration in seconds.

-d --duration <DURATION>

Connection count. each connection will map with one OS thread.

-c --connection <CONNECTION>

Optional body payload to pass to the target.

-p --payload <PAYLOAD>

Optional HTTP headers. you can specify multiple headers with following structure <NAME>:<VALUE>.

-H --headers <HEADERS>

Optional request timeout duration in seconds. default is set to 5 seconds.

-T --timeout <TIMEOUT>

Print help

-h --help

Print version

-V --version

here's an example with all options used.

cicadas -t https://example.com \
	-m POST \
	-d 30 \
	-c 100 \
	-H "Content-Type:application/json" \
	-P "{id: 5}" \
	-p socks5://mysecretsocks.com \
	-T 7

Todos

• [ ] Add ‍‍‍‍deviation and percentile analysis parameters.
• [ ] Add async and non blocking version of HTTP client.
• [ ] Add an option for specifying file path to store HTTP responses.
• [ ] Add an option for pass proxy authorization parameters.
• [ ] Compare performance with other tools like wrk and autocannon