Strike - Load testing for Health Messages

Strike is a command line tool that allows you to put consumers of HL7-messages under load. This is useful for testing and benchmarking HL7-brokers like mirth. It can also be used when writing your own consumer applications for HL7 messages, and to generate some kind of continuous load.

Features

1. A straightforward method to configure the sender.
2. Pretty good threading (I hope)
3. A simple view of the live stats about the messages that are sent to the consumer. Contains sent and failed messages, along with a message rate of sent messages.

Installing strike

Installing strike as a cli tool through cargo can be done with the following command:

cargo install strike.

Configuring strike

Strike allows for config through the strike.conf file. The CLI also allows you to manage the configuration. strike config.

strike config show shows the current configuration. strike config set --help shows all possible settings.

Using strike

strike test-connection will test the connection as it is configured.

strike send will start sending messages, and will show the live view. You can always stop the tool by pressing CTRL+C.

Future work

The following features are some things that I still want to attempt in this package:

• Improve the live stats view, including information about the endpoint.
• Make the 'message rate' configurable, so that you can run this tool as a constant (manageable) stream of messages.