loadgen: OTel load generation tooling
January 17, 2025 ยท View on GitHub
In cmd/ directory, there are
- otelsoak
- Load generator that is exactly an OTel collector. It sends load to an endpoint and never terminates.
- Suitable for soak testing
- otelbench
- Load generator based on OTel collector and Go benchmarking. It sends load to an endpoint, terminates after a configured duration, and outputs statistics.
- Suitable for benchmarking
otelsoak and otelbench are synonymous to apmsoak and apmbench in elastic/apm-perf.