Terminal Benchmarking Tools
Benchmarking is the practice of measuring how fast something runs under a repeatable workload, then comparing the numbers across versions, machines or competing implementations.
In the terminal that covers timing a command over many runs and reporting the spread, generating load against an HTTP server to find its requests per second, and measuring disk, memory and CPU throughput. Developers use the results to catch performance regressions before a release, and system administrators use them to size hardware.
Below is a list of terminal tools for benchmarking.
ali
A load testing tool capable of performing real-time analysis.
A load testing tool capable of performing real-time analysis.
ballast
A tool for snapshot load testing APIs.
A tool for snapshot load testing APIs.
cmdperf
Benchmark and compare shell commands interactively.
Benchmark and compare shell commands interactively.
dnspyre
A CLI tool for a high QPS DNS benchmark.
A CLI tool for a high QPS DNS benchmark.
hyperfine
A command-line benchmarking tool.
A command-line benchmarking tool.
oha
A tiny TUI program that sends some load to a web application.
A tiny TUI program that sends some load to a web application.
s-tui
terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility.
terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility.
xfr
A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI.
A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI.
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