Installation
How install Yandex Pandora
Documentation
Pandora is a high-performance load generator in Go language. It has built-in HTTP(S) and HTTP/2 support and you can write your own load scenarios in Go, compiling them just before your test.
Get started
Configuration
Pandora supports config files in YAML format.
Architectural overview
Pandora is a set of components talking to each other through Go channels. There are different types of components.
Generators
Dummy generator
Dummy generator is used to check load profiles
gRPC generator
Configure gRPC generator
HTTP generator
Configure HTTP generator
Scenario generator / HTTP
Scenario generator / HTTP
Scenario generator / gRPC
Scenario generator / gRPC
Scenario
Common scenario settings
Custom guns
Custom guns
Providers
HTTP Ammo providers
HTTP Ammo provider is a source of test data - it makes ammo object
JSON provider
JSON provider converts to Payload json files
Dummy Provider
Dummy provider is used for generators without external Payload.
Data Sources
To simplify the implementation of your custom generators
Load profile
It sets how the load will be changed and maintained.
Instance startup profile
How many instances you need, and how quickly they will be available to you
Aggregator
Best practices
Discard overflow
The setting includes the behavior of discarding overdue requests
RPS per instance
The setting allows you to change the rule for calculating the load profile
Use shared client
The setting allows you to reduce the number of open connections to the server
Pandora performance
Some performance tests for the gun itself