🧪 API Load Testing with Locust

This project demonstrates how to simulate API traffic and measure performance using Locust, a modern load testing tool for Python.

🔍 What It Does

• Sends concurrent requests to a sample API endpoint
• Measures latency, throughput, and request failures
• Provides a real-time web dashboard for monitoring

🧰 Stack

• Python 3
• Locust

📂 Project Structure

api-load-testing/
├── locustfile.py
├── requirements.txt
└── README.md

🚀 Usage

1. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Run Locust

locust

3. Open Web UI

Visit: http://localhost:8089
Enter:

• Host: your API base URL (e.g., http://localhost:5000)
• Number of users and spawn rate

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Ideal for testing performance of REST APIs, microservices, and web apps.