Load Performance Tools JumpStart has been created to help you get your load performance testing strategy off the ground in the shortest possible time. This repository contains tools for load generation, data collection, aggregation and visualization.
As a Load Performance Tester, you will be able to work on a variety of tasks related to performance testing. You can create scripts and load tests which simulate use cases across all levels from the entry level software environment to the highest level of security surrounding web applications.
Experitest
This tool lets the user test by emulating real-world network conditions. A user can test by defining conditions based on geographical location, server, network type, and operator. This also let’s emulate mobile networking issues like a weak signal, reception deterioration. A good tool to be used for testing as it helps in identifying issues before deployment.
Flent (Flexible Network Tester)
This is a tool that allows experimental evaluations of the network instead of simulation. This is a python wrapper and allows running tests on multiple tools, maintains information on which tool to run in a configuration file. It’s built-in batch capabilities make it easy to specify a series of tests that need to be run in sequence.
Netalyzr
If you’re looking for a network debugging tool, this is a good choice. This tool lets users test internet connections to identify problems and output in the form of a detailed report show security/performance issues.
FortiTester
This is a very powerful tool that lets the user measure the performance of network devices. It supports TCP throughput testing, TCP Connection testing, HTTP/HTTPS CPS testing, HTTP/HTTPS RPS testing, UDP PPS testing and CAPWAP throughput testing.
Zabbix
Zabbix is a network monitoring tool that offers IT infrastructure, services, applications, and resources. It is one of the best network testing software that offers a network server, cloud, application, and service monitoring.
Features:
- Highly automated metric collection
- Advanced problem detection
- Flexible escalation scenarios
- Remote command execution
- Agents for most platforms
- Out of the box templates
OP5 Monitor
OP5 Monitor is a network monitoring tool for the server, network monitoring, and management based on the open source project called Nagios. The OP5 Monitor displays the status, health, and performance of the IT network.
Features:
- Log server monitoring
- Fully customizable and interactive dashboards
- It offers unparalleled scalability across distributed environments
- This network testing tool allows you to read, process, and generate alerts from SNMP traps.
- Automatic Self-Healing.
Nagios XI
Nagios network is a network monitoring tool that allows organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems. It helps you to determine the issues before they affect critical business processes. Nagios is one of the best network testing tools that offer complete ping monitoring capabilities, including packet loss and reachability.
Features:
- Comprehensive dashboard
- Allows you to keep track of specific subsets of network flow information
- Select devices you want to ping
- It provides results in ribbon, bar, column, step, or area charts.
- Network diagnostics with Engineer’s toolset.
- Provides complete insights on network traffic, bandwidth, and overall network health
- Receive alerts when any abnormal activity takes place.
- It has advanced users feature that allow IT teams to work together efficiently.
- It helps you to determine the threshold level to get notifications.
- It helps you to discover network devices as well as map network topology.
- Track device availability, CPU load, interface statistics, performance & latency of network paths.
- Troubleshoot your network with enhanced ping capabilities, and it also offers packet route tracing.
SolarWinds Network Performance Testing with NPM (FREE TRIAL)
The SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) offers network testing tools that will help you spot problems with the delivery of services within your system.
This tool is a very sophisticated monitoring system that detects all devices attached to the network automatically. You don’t need to install any agent software on your devices because they are all shipped with SNMP capabilities. The Simple Network Management Protocol includes procedures for constant monitoring of network devices. All that your system lacks is a central controller to request and collate this data. This is the role taken by the SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor.
Network testing functions within the NPM include troubleshooting utilities that are based on historical data. At first glance, it is difficult to work out whether performance issues are being caused by the network, services, and applications, or software processing problems at servers and endpoints. The PerfStack utility within the Network Performance Monitor shows you all of the underlying contributors to service delivery. These graphs are color-coded so you can get down to the stack level that is displaying errors and fix the problem quickly.
Another useful performance monitoring tool in the package is the NetPath utility. This enables you to see in real-time the delivery times of data from one point on the network to another, showing the statuses and speeds of each node that packets have to pass through on that journey.
The Network Analysis Tool within SolarWinds NPM gives you graphical representations of performance metrics so you can see in an instant when performance begins to be impaired.
Pros:
- Designed with large and enterprise networks in mind
- Supports auto-discovery that builds network topology maps and inventory lists in real-time based on devices that enter the network
- Has some of the best alerting features that balance effectiveness with ease of use
- Supports both SNMP monitoring as well as packet analysis, giving you more control over monitoring than similar tools
- Uses drag and drop widgets to customize the look and feel of the dashboard
- Robust reporting system with pre-configured compliance templates
Cons:
- This is a feature-rich enterprise tool designed for sysadmin, non-technical users may some features overwhelming
You can get the Network Performance Monitor on a 30-day free trial.
Conclusion
A collection of load testing tools for web applications, ready to be used in a continuous integration environment. It’s available on Github, in a form of a public repository, or as a single downloadable archive in case you already have a Git server in place in your organization.