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Benchmark definition format

The best authoritative reference will always be the schema; we recommend using Visual Studio Code with schema support.

This document describes the overall structure of the YAML benchmark definition:

Property Description
name Name of the benchmark, as later identified in the CLI
agents List of one or more agents for clustered runs. This section can be omitted in standalone mode.
pre Hooks executed before any benchmark run starts
post Hooks executed after any benchmark run terminates
ergonomics Utility options that modify scenarios
http Configure target servers and HTTP connection options.
phases List of phases in this benchmark.
threads Number of executors each agent will use. By default it uses only 1 thread for simulating all sessions
statisticsCollectionPeriod Each agent collects statistics and sends them to the controller with specified period. Default is 1 second.
staircase This is a shortcut for linking phases into a common type of scenario, called staircase as the load is gradually increased in steps.

Besides these all the options for the constantPerSec phase type can be embedded into the top-level to allow shorthand benchmark syntax in scenarios with constant load. In that case you cannot use the phases declaration, though.

Anchors and aliases

Sequences such as logging into the systems will be likely used in different phases/scenarios and it would be tedious to repeat these. That’s where YAML anchors and aliases come into play:

...
phases:
- rampUp:
    rampPerSec:
      scenario:
      - login: &login
        - httpRequest:
            POST: /login
        ...
- steadyState:
    constantPerSec:
      ...
      scenario:
      - login: *login
      ...

The steps from sequence login in phase rampUp will be copied verbatim to sequence login in phase steadyState.

The same concept can be applied on whole scenarios:

phases:
- rampUp:
    rampPerSec:
      ...
      scenario: &myScenario
      - login:
          ...
- steadyState:
    constantPerSec:
      ...
      scenario: *myScenario

And forks as well:

...
phases:
- rampUp:
    rampPerSec:
      ...
      forks:
        sellShares: &sellShares
          weight: 1
          scenario: ...
        buyShares: &buyShares
          weight: 2
          scenario: ...
- steadyState:
    constantPerSec:
      ...
      forks:
        sellShares: *sellShares
        buyShares: *buyShares
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