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ddosify

High-performance load testing tool, written in Golang. For distributed and Geo-targeted load testing: Ddosify Cloud - https://ddosify.com.

Please read Github repo before use

Installation

ddosify is available via Docker, Homebrew Tap, and downloadable pre-compiled binaries from the releases page for macOS, Linux and Windows.

Docker

docker run -it --rm ddosify/ddosify

Homebrew Tap (macOS and Linux)

brew install ddosify/tap/ddosify

apk, deb, rpm, Arch Linux packages

For arm architectures change ddosify_amd64 to ddosify_arm64 or ddosify_armv6.
Superuser privilege is required.

# For Redhat based (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, etc.)
rpm -i https://github.com/ddosify/ddosify/releases/latest/download/ddosify_amd64.rpm

# For Debian based (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.)
wget https://github.com/ddosify/ddosify/releases/latest/download/ddosify_amd64.deb
dpkg -i ddosify_amd64.deb

# For Alpine
wget https://github.com/ddosify/ddosify/releases/latest/download/ddosify_amd64.apk
apk add --allow-untrusted ddosify_amd64.apk

# For Arch Linux
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/ddosify.git
cd ddosify
makepkg -sri

Windows exe from the releases page

Download *.zip file for your architecture. For example download ddosify version vx.x.x with amd64 architecture: ddosify_x.x.x.zip_windows_amd64
Unzip ddosify_x.x.x_windows_amd64.zip
Open Powershell or CMD (Command Prompt) and change directory to unzipped folder: ddosify_x.x.x_windows_amd64
Run ddosify:

.\ddosify.exe -t target_site.com

Usage

You can configure your load test by the CLI options or a config file. Config file supports more features than the CLI. For example, you can’t create a scenario-based load test with CLI options.

CLI Flags

ddosify [FLAG]

Flags

Flag	Description	Type	Default	Required?
`-t`	Target website URL. Example: https://ddosify.com	`string`	-	Yes
`-n`	Total request count	`int`	`100`	No
`-d`	Test duration in seconds.	`int`	`10`	No
`-p`	Protocol of the request. Supported protocols are HTTP, HTTPS. HTTP/2 support is only available by using a config file as described. More protocols will be added.	`string`	`HTTPS`	No
`-m`	Request method. Available methods for HTTP(s) are GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, PATCH, OPTIONS	`string`	`GET`	No
`-b`	The payload of the network packet. AKA body for the HTTP.	`string`	-	No
`-a`	Basic authentication. Usage: `-a username:password`	`string`	-	No
`-h`	Headers of the request. You can provide multiple headers with multiple `-h` flag.	`string`	-	No
`-T`	Timeout of the request in seconds.	`int`	`5`	No
`-P`	Proxy address as host:port. `-P http://user:pass@proxy_host.com:port'`	`string`	-	No
`-o`	Test result output destination. Supported outputs are [stdout, stdout-json] Other output types will be added.	`string`	`stdout`	No
`-l`	Type load-types of the load test. Ddosify supports 3 load types.	`string`	`linear`	No
`-config`	Config File] of the load test.	`string`	-	No
`-version`	Prints version, git commit, built date (utc), go information and quit	-	-	No

Examples

Example

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