What is Gatling?
Gatling is a robust open-source load and performance testing tool designed to automate the evaluation of web application stability and identify potential bottlenecks under traffic load. With over 16 million downloads across more than 100,000 companies worldwide, Gatling's solution has been adopted by diverse industries including software, e-commerce, streaming media, banking, insurance, gaming, and finance
Highlights
- Integration with DevOps lifecycle through official and community plugins for developer tools like Jenkins
- Advanced reporting features in Gatling Enterprise, including live reporting, TCP connections metrics, bandwidth usage, and injectors' monitoring
- Automation capabilities in Gatling Enterprise, such as public APIs and new Continuous Integration plugins, as well as a clustering mode
- Excellent support for the HTTP protocol, making it a versatile tool for load testing any HTTP server
- Protocol-agnostic core engine enabling support for other protocols like JMS
Features
Load testing as code for CI/CD integration &
API Load testing
Automated deployment of load injectors
Simulating heavy traffic
Response times reports