Taran is a tool for benchmarking web applications and servers.
“Taran” means “battering ram” in Russian.
Written in PHP 8.1+ using Laravel Zero console framework.
Build into an executable file (builds/taran):
# Get the source code
git clone https://github.com/maximal/taran
cd taran
# Install PHP dependencies
composer install
# Build an executable
composer build
# Check
./builds/taran --helpRun 10’000 GET requests against http://localhost:8002 with concurrency level of 200 (requests in parallel):
./builds/taran load --requests=10000 --concurrency=200 http://localhost:8002Example output:
Running 10000 requests with concurrency of 200 to URL: http://localhost:8002 ...
[##############################################################################]
URL: http://localhost:8002
Requests sent: 10000
Concurrency: 200
Timeouts: 2
2xx statuses: 9998
Non-2xx statuses: 2
Timings: 50.6 ms ± 183 ms (avg ± std dev)
TTFB Total
minimum: 1.45 ms 2.32 ms (fastest response)
25 percentile: 2.96 ms 376 ms (first quartile)
50 percentile: 7.49 ms 516 ms (median)
75 percentile: 20.1 ms 1.01 s (third quartile)
90 percentile: 40.7 ms 1.12 s
95 percentile: 57.3 ms 1.14 s
99 percentile: 201 ms 1.20 s
maximum: 1.28 s 2.00 s (slowest response)
Total bytes: 275140000 B received, 0 B sent
HTTP codes:
200: 9998
timeout: 2
Timing histogram:
2.32 ms .. 6.31 ms ################################ 125
6.31 ms .. 10.3 ms #################################### 141
10.3 ms .. 14.3 ms ########################################## 165
14.3 ms .. 18.3 ms ################################################## 197
18.3 ms .. 22.3 ms ######################################## 156
22.3 ms .. 26.3 ms #################################### 143
26.3 ms .. 30.3 ms ################################ 126
30.3 ms .. 34.2 ms ######################## 95
34.2 ms .. 38.2 ms ################### 76
38.2 ms .. 42.2 ms ################ 63
42.2 ms .. 46.2 ms ############# 51
46.2 ms .. 50.2 ms ######### 37
50.2 ms .. 54.2 ms ###### 24
54.2 ms .. 58.2 ms ###### 23
58.2 ms .. 62.2 ms ###### 25
62.2 ms .. 66.2 ms ##### 19
66.2 ms .. 70.2 ms ## 9
70.2 ms .. 74.1 ms # 4
74.1 ms .. 78.1 ms ## 9
78.1 ms .. 82.1 ms # 4
82.1 ms .. 86.1 ms # 3
86.1 ms .. 90.1 ms # 3
90.1 ms .. 94.1 ms ## 7
94.1 ms .. 98.1 ms # 3
98.1 ms .. 102 ms # 2
... ... ...
10000 requests done in 52.3 s (191 average RPS).
Execute taran load --help for the full help of load command:
Description:
Load an URL with HTTP requests
Usage:
load [options] [--] <URL>
Arguments:
URL
Options:
-r, --requests[=REQUESTS] Number of requests to send [default: "100"]
-c, --concurrency[=CONCURRENCY] Number of parallel processes [default: "10"]
-t, --timeout[=TIMEOUT] Timeout of HTTP request in seconds [default: "2.0"]
-b, --body[=BODY] HTTP body to send in every request
-f, --file[=FILE] File to upload in every request
--file-field[=FILE-FIELD] Name of the file’s POST field [default: "file"]
--histogram[=HISTOGRAM] Timing histogram bars count (0 to disable) [default: "20"]
--export[=EXPORT] Export request timings data (without timeouts) to file
-h, --help Display help for the given command. When no command is given display help for the list command
-q, --quiet Do not output any message
-V, --version Display this application version
--ansi|--no-ansi Force (or disable --no-ansi) ANSI output
-n, --no-interaction Do not ask any interactive question
--env[=ENV] The environment the command should run under
-v|vv|vvv, --verbose Increase the verbosity of messages: 1 for normal output, 2 for more verbose output and 3 for debug
PER-2T / PSR-12T (PHP’s standard PER-2 / PSR-12 with SmartTabs instead of spaces).
- Website: https://maximals.ru (Russian)
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/almaximal
- Telegram: https://t.me/maximal
- Sijeko Company: https://sijeko.ru (web, mobile, desktop applications development and graphic design)
- Personal GitHub: https://github.com/maximal
- Company’s GitHub: https://github.com/sijeko