# Inquisitor
Simple and fast HTTP load testing tool written in Rust.
## Motivation
There are some other tools in this category in Rust, such as
[Goose](https://github.com/tag1consulting/goose) and
[Drill](https://github.com/fcsonline/drill). *Inquisitor* is inspired more by
tools such as [wrk](https://github.com/wg/wrk) and
[siege](https://github.com/JoeDog/siege) than Goose, Drill or
[k6](https://k6.io/), which means that we want our tool to be:
* efficient: capable of generating as many requests per second (RPS) as the
hardware allows;
* simple: we are not trying to be feature complete;
* no scripting: for this you should look into the excellent *k6* or some of the
other tools mentioned.
From the tools that I have tried, by far the one capable of generating the
highest number of RPS is `wrk`, which in my hardware will do something around
30-70k RPS. These numbers are significantly larger than the RPS of some of the
tools I mentioned, and orders of magnitude higher than some others. This is the
main motivation of *Inquisitor*: reach the level of RPS of `wrk`, while being
written in Rust and if possible slowly add features that the comunity deems to
be useful.
## Building and Installing
### From Source
Clone the repo and build:
$ git clone https://github.com/yds12/inquisitor
$ cd inquisitor
$ cargo build --release
### With Cargo
Install via `cargo` with:
$ cargo install inquisitor
## Running
As an example, you can run with:
$ inquisitor -n 1000 -c 10 -t 10 https://localhost:8080/test
This will hit the URL specified, `-n` number of times, using `-t` concurrent
tasks and a pool of `-c` HTTP connections. These parameters need to be adjusted
according to your environment.
To display the help, which will have up to date information about all the
command line parameters, type:
$ inquisitor --help