Apache Bench Visualizer [ab-viz]

GUI frontend for Apache Bench. [Apache Bench Wiki].

ab-viz lets you quickly benchmark and view detailed graphs.

Prerequiste

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.
• Apache Bench (ab.exe)
  • You'll find it in Apache's installation folder .\apache\bin\ab.exe -OR-
  • Click Here to download ab.exe

Download

To download executable click here.

Application Startup

The benchmark options can be seen to the left and the summary is updated to the right. The results can be filtered using the filters provided under the summary tabs.

Benchmark In Progress

Here we can see the benchmark in progress.

• ab-viz lets you execute the benchmark multiple times so that the results aren't skewed.
• ab-viz shows you a progress bar with the number of requests that have been completed.

Benchmark Summary

The summary tab shows the output of Apache Bench.

Benchmark Response

Here we see the plot of the '-e' command of Apache Bench.

".. for each percentage (from 1% to 100%) the time (in milliseconds) it took to serve that percentage of the requests ..."

Benchmark Request Details

Here we see the plot of the '-g' command of Apache Bench. ".. all measured values out as a .. TSV (Tab separate values) file ..."

• ctime: Connection Time
• dtime: Processing Time
• ttime: Total Time
• wait: Waiting Time

License

   Copyright 2013 Gaurang Sinha

   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
   limitations under the License.