abba

Apache Bench Benchmark Analysis

Apache Bench (ab) is a great tool for benchmarking http endpoints. But do you really know how to use it? This project contains:

1. A dirt simple node server with endpoints that take a known amount of time to respond
2. TODO: how to interpret the results

Usage

Node

Installing requirements and then running the server:

npm install
npm start

Docker

Running the server, exposing it on port 8888:

docker run -p 8888:8000 crccheck/abba

Jupyter notebook

juypter notebook

Addendum

ApacheBench tsv file

All numbers (everything except the first field) are in milliseconds. The most useful fields are: seconds and wait.

• starttime - date time
• seconds - epoch time
• ctime - connection time
• dtime - time from connection until the end
• ttime - total time (including connection)
• wait - time from sending the request to getting the first byte