Goku
A command-line HTTP load testing tool that measures service response times and request behavior.
By Observability Insight
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About Goku
Goku sends HTTP requests to benchmark web services and reports metrics such as mean and percentile response times. It supports rate limits, sequential scenarios, variable templating, authentication and HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.
The command-line tool offers text, JSON and CSV output, a run comparison command and an MCP server for programmatic use. It can also publish test results to Observability Insight.
Strengths
- Supports rate limits and multi-step scenarios
- Reports response-time metrics in several output formats
- Can compare runs and provide an MCP server
Limitations
- Publishing run history to Observability Insight requires an account
Details
- Pricing
- FreeThe command-line tool is free and open source under the MIT license.
- License
- MIT
- Developer
- Observability Insight
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Developers benchmarking HTTP services from the command line
- Categories
- Developer tools, Website testing
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the Homebrew formula