Wrk vs gatling

Gatling (Open-Source)
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Techempower released an extensive benchmarks on various frameworks at www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r3

Wrk is the modern HTTP benchmarking tool, what are the pros and cons for using wrk and gatling?

Would Gatling work for stress testing on PHP framework as well?

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Hi,

Gatling is framework and programming language agnostic as it works on the HTTP level. So, yes, it will work with all PHP frameworks.

Here is a list of things that would make you choose Gatling :

  • Great HTML5 reports
  • Support of complex scenarios
  • Easy to write checks for asserting the correct execution of your scenarios (Regex, CSS selector, JsonPath etc.)
  • Easy to integrate with Graphite, Jenkins etc.

Wrk is more of tool in the category of “Apache Benchmark (ab)” - it will only test one single query.

So, if you look for the raw throughput of a web server / framework, wrk is probably a tool to look at. But, if you are interested in testing a website or anything that is more complex that one single query, then, Gatling is definitively a tool you should consider.

cheers
Nicolas

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Thank, great!