Open Source Linux Performance Testing Software
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View 23 business solutionsBrowse free open source Performance Testing software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Performance Testing software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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ZAP
The OWASP ZAP core project
The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is one of the world’s most popular free security tools and is actively maintained by a dedicated international team of volunteers. It can help you automatically find security vulnerabilities in your web applications while you are developing and testing your applications. It's also a great tool for experienced pentesters to use for manual security testing. ZAP is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing. ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually. It stands between the tester’s browser and the web application so that it can intercept and inspect messages sent between browser and web application. -
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Reactotron
Desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects
Reactotron is a macOS, Windows, and Linux app for inspecting your React JS and React Native apps. View your application state, show API requests & responses, perform quick performance benchmarks, subscribe to parts of your application state, display messages similar to console.log, track global errors with source-mapped stack traces including saga stack traces! You can dispatch actions like a government-run mind control experiment, hot swap your app's state using Redux or mobx-state-tree, track your sagas, show image overlay in React Native, track your Async Storage in React Native, etc. You plug it into your app as a dev dependency so it adds nothing to your product builds. Reactotron, as an open source project, is free to use and always will be. -
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PerfView
PerfView is a CPU and memory performance-analysis tool
PerfView is a free performance analysis tool that helps isolate CPU and memory-related performance issues. It is a Windows tool, but it also has some support for analyzing data collected on Linux machines. It works for a wide variety of scenarios, but has a number of special features for investigating performance issues in code written for the .NET runtime. If you are unfamiliar with PerfView, there are PerfView video tutorials. Also, Vance Morrison's blog gives an overview and getting started information. PerfView is built on a library called Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.TraceEvent, which knows how to both collect and parse Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) data. Thus if there is any information that PerfView collects and processes that you would like to manipulate yourself programmatically, you would probably be interested in the TraceEvent Library Documentation. -
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Maltrail
Malicious traffic detection system
Maltrail is a malicious traffic detection system, utilizing publicly available (black)lists containing malicious and/or generally suspicious trails, along with static trails compiled from various AV reports and custom user-defined lists, where trail can be anything from domain name, URL, IP address (e.g. 185.130.5.231 for the known attacker) or HTTP User-Agent header value (e.g. sqlmap for automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool). Also, it uses (optional) advanced heuristic mechanisms that can help in the discovery of unknown threats (e.g. new malware). Sensor(s) is a standalone component running on the monitoring node (e.g. Linux platform connected passively to the SPAN/mirroring port or transparently inline on a Linux bridge) or at the standalone machine (e.g. Honeypot) where it "monitors" the passing Traffic for blacklisted items/trails (i.e. domain names, URLs and/or IPs). -
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Karate
Test automation made simple
Karate is the only open-source tool to combine API test-automation, mocks, performance-testing and even UI automation into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers. Assertions and HTML reports are built-in, and you can run tests in parallel for speed. There’s also a cross-platform stand-alone executable for teams not comfortable with Java. You don’t have to compile code. Just write tests in a simple, readable syntax, carefully designed for HTTP, JSON, GraphQL and XML. And you can mix API and UI test-automation within the same test script. A Java API also exists for those who prefer to programmatically integrate Karate’s rich automation and data-assertion capabilities. It is worth pointing out that JSON is a ‘first class citizen’ of the syntax such that you can express payload and expected data without having to use double-quotes and without having to enclose JSON field names in quotes. -
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Zerocopy
Zerocopy makes zero-cost memory manipulation effortless
Zerocopy is a Rust library designed to make zero-cost memory manipulation both safe and effortless. It allows developers to reinterpret or convert raw byte sequences into structured types—and vice versa—without writing unsafe code directly. The crate provides safe abstractions for transmuting data while preserving Rust’s strict safety guarantees, removing the need for manual memory manipulation. Zerocopy introduces a suite of conversion traits such as TryFromBytes, FromBytes, IntoBytes, and FromZeros for defining how types can be safely constructed from or written to byte sequences. It also includes marker traits like KnownLayout, Immutable, and Unaligned to define type characteristics used in conversions. Complementing these traits are conversion macros that perform compile-time checks to ensure size and alignment safety, providing zero runtime overhead for unconditional casts. -
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Playwright for Python
Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library
Playwright enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps. Single API to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit. Capable automation for single page apps that rely on the modern web platform. Use the Playwright API in JavaScript & TypeScript, Python, .NET and, Java. With Playwright, test how your app behaves in Apple Safari with WebKit builds for Windows, Linux and macOS. Test locally and on CI. Use device emulation to test your responsive web apps in mobile web browsers. Playwright supports headless (without browser UI) and headed (with browser UI) modes for all browsers and all platforms. Headed is great for debugging, and headless is faster and suited for CI/cloud executions. Playwright interactions auto-wait for elements to be ready. This improves reliability and simplifies test authoring. Playwright receives browser signals, like network requests, page navigations and page load events to eliminate the need for sleep timeouts that cause flakiness. -
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Speedtest Tracker
Speedtest Tracker is a self-hosted internet performance tracking app
A Docker image to check your internet speed using Ookla's Speedtest service. Build using Laravel and the Speedtest CLI. Speedtest Tracker is a self-hosted internet performance tracking application that runs speed test checks against Ookla's Speedtest service. The main use case for Speedtest Tracker is to build a history of your internet's performance so that you can be informed when you're not receiving your ISP's advertised rates. Speedtest Tracker is containerized so you can run it anywhere you run your Docker containers. The install documentation will get you up and running using Docker or Docker Composer along with choosing a database (SQLite, MySQL/MariaDB, or Postgresql). -
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PM2
Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer
PM2 (Process Manager 2) is a production process manager with its own built-in load-balancer for Node.js applications. If you want battle-hardened Node.js applications that can be monitored and kept alive forever, PM2 is the way to go. PM2 lets you manage, maintain and increase Node.js performance. It is constantly assailed by over 1800 tests so you can deliver high quality applications, and deploy confidently and more often. PM2 is cross-platform and arguably the most widely-used process manager for Node.js with over 100 million downloads. Setting it up is easy, it just takes a couple of minutes and one simple command. -
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LoopVectorization.jl
Macro(s) for vectorizing loops
LoopVectorization.jl is a Julia package for accelerating numerical loops by automatically applying SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) vectorization and other low-level optimizations. It analyzes loops and generates highly efficient code that leverages CPU vector instructions, making it ideal for performance-critical computing in fields such as scientific computing, signal processing, and machine learning. -
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Phoronix Test Suite
Open-Source, Automated Benchmarking
The Phoronix Test Suite is the most comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform available that provides an extensible framework for which new tests can be easily added. The Phoronix Test Suite is designed to effectively carry out both benchmarks in a clean, reproducible, and easy-to-use manner. -
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Playwright for .NET
.NET version of the Playwright testing and automation library
Playwright for .NET is the official language port of Playwright, the library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. Playwright is built to enable cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast. Cross-browser. Playwright supports all modern rendering engines including Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox. Cross-platform. Test on Windows, Linux, and macOS, locally or on CI, headless or headed. Cross-language. Use the Playwright API in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, .NET, Java. Test Mobile Web. Native mobile emulation of Google Chrome for Android and Mobile Safari. The same rendering engine works on your Desktop and in the Cloud. Auto-wait. Playwright waits for elements to be actionable prior to performing actions. It also has a rich set of introspection events. The combination of the two eliminates the need for artificial timeouts - the primary cause of flaky tests. -
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sysbench
Scriptable database and system performance benchmark
sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT. It is most frequently used for database benchmarks, but can also be used to create arbitrarily complex workloads that do not involve a database server. extensive statistics about rate and latency is available, including latency percentiles and histograms. Low overhead even with thousands of concurrent threads. sysbench is capable of generating and tracking hundreds of millions of events per second. New benchmarks can be easily created by implementing pre-defined hooks in user-provided Lua scripts. Can be used as a general-purpose Lua interpreter as well, simply replace #!/usr/bin/lua with #!/usr/bin/sysbench in your script. Execute events for this many seconds with statistics disabled before the actual benchmark run with statistics enabled. This is useful when you want to exclude the initial period of a benchmark run from statistics. -
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Ethr
Ethr is a comprehensive network measurement tool for TCP, UDP & ICMP
Ethr is a cross-platform network performance measurement tool written in golang. The goal of this project is to provide a native tool for comprehensive network performance measurements of bandwidth, connections/s, packets/s, latency, loss & jitter, across multiple protocols such as TCP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, and across multiple platforms such as Windows, Linux and other Unix systems. Ethr takes inspiration from existing open-source network performance tools and builds upon those ideas. For Bandwidth measurement, it is similar to iPerf3, for TCP & UDP traffic. iPerf3 has many more options for doing such as throttled testing, richer feature set, while Ethr has support for multiple threads, which allows it to scale to 1024 or even higher number of connections, multiple clients communication to a single server etc. For latency measurements, it is similar to latte on Windows or sockperf on Linux. -
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forever
CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously
A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever). Note that this project currently fully depends on the community for implementing fixes and new features. For new installations we encourage you to use pm2 or nodemon. If you are using forever programmatically you should install forever-monitor. There are two ways to use forever: through the command line or by using forever in your code. Note: If you are using forever programatically you should install forever-monitor. You can use forever to run scripts continuously (whether it is written in node.js or not). In addition to passing forever the path to a script (along with accompanying options, described above), you may also pass forever the path to a JSON file containing these options. The forever module exposes some useful methods to use in your code. Each method returns an instance of an EventEmitter which emits when complete. -
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pipx
Install and run Python applications in isolated environments
pipx is a tool to help you install and run end-user applications written in Python. It's roughly similar to macOS's brew, JavaScript's npx, and Linux's apt. It's closely related to pip. In fact, it uses pip, but is focused on installing and managing Python packages that can be run from the command line directly as applications. pip is a general-purpose package installer for both libraries and apps with no environment isolation. pipx is made specifically for application installation, as it adds isolation yet still makes the apps available in your shell: pipx creates an isolated environment for each application and its associated packages. pipx does not ship with pip, but installing it is often an important part of bootstrapping your system. By default, pipx uses the same package index as pip, PyPI. pipx can also install from all other sources pip can, such as a local directory, wheel, git url, etc. -
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SerialToIP is a simple Terminal Server software providing transparent pipe either in TCP server or TCP client socket mode from TCP/IP to a pre-configured serial port. Implemented in C# for .NET 2.0 so the command line version could work in Mono-runtime as well.
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PyLoris
A protocol agnostic application layer denial of service attack.
PyLoris is a scriptable tool for testing a server's vulnerability to connection exhaustion denial of service (DoS) attacks. PyLoris can utilize SOCKS proxies and SSL connections, and can target protocols such as HTTP, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, and Telnet. -
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Nightwatch.js
End-to-end testing framework in Node.js & using the Webdriver API
Nightwatch.js is an automated, easy to use End-to-End testing framework written in Node.js and using the W3C WebDriver API. It uses the WebDriver API to drive browsers, enabling commands and assertions on DOM elements. Nightwatch.js is used for end-to-end testing of web applications and websites, as well as for Node.js unit and integration testing. It offers a clean yet powerful syntax for quick and easy writing of tests, a built-in command-line test runner, continuous integration and more. It's also easy to extend so you can implement custom commands and assertions. -
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TestCafe
A Node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing
TestCafe is a Node.js tool for automating end-to-end web testing. All you have to do is set it up, write tests in JS or TypeScript, run them and view the results. There’s no need for WebDrivers or other testing software. Installing TestCafe takes just one minute and one command. TestCafe lets you create smart, stable tests with no manual timeouts. It can run parallel tests, saving you on test execution time, and can even build readable tests with PageObject. TestCafe runs on all popular platforms and environments, from mobile to desktop, as well as remote and cloud browsers. It’s totally free and open source, with plenty of community-made plugins and the freedom to create your own. -
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dockerize
Utility to simplify running applications in docker containers
Utility to simplify running applications in docker containers. dockerize is a utility to simplify running applications in docker containers. It allows you to generate application configuration files at container startup time from templates and container environment variables. generate application configuration files at container startup time from templates and container environment variables. Wait for other services to be available using TCP, HTTP(S), unix before starting the main process. The typical use case for dockerize is when you have an application that has one or more configuration files and you would like to control some of the values using environment variables. Another use case is when the application logs to specific files on the filesystem and not stdout or stderr. This makes it difficult to troubleshoot the container using the docker logs command. -
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Clinic.js
Clinic.js diagnoses your Node.js performance issues
Node Clinic is a suite of diagnostic tools for Node.js applications, designed to help developers identify and resolve performance issues, memory leaks, and other common problems in their code. -
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Hiper
A statistical analysis tool for performance testing
Hiper is an open-source command-line tool designed for statistical analysis of web performance and page load behavior during performance testing. The tool repeatedly loads a specified webpage multiple times and gathers detailed timing metrics in order to produce more reliable performance measurements than single-run benchmarks. By averaging data across multiple page loads, Hiper helps developers understand whether performance optimizations actually improve real-world page loading behavior. The tool relies on browser performance timing data to capture metrics such as DNS lookup time, TCP connection time, time to first byte, download duration, DOM readiness, and total page load time. Hiper runs from the command line and can be installed globally using Node.js package managers, making it simple to integrate into development or testing workflows. -
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Marathon -GUI Test Runner Web, Swing, FX
Marathon supports testing of Java/Swing and Java/Fx applications.
Marathon provides an integrated environment for test script creation and execution. Supported FW: Web, Java Swing/ Java FX. Currently, Marathon supports JRuby script models for recording the test scripts.Marathon test runner generates Allure test reports.Marathon allows for grouping of test cases.It also has an option of inserting modules while recording(in MarathonITE while recording). It allows tester to inset checklist while recording and also takes screen capture and annotate it in playing the test cases. Extraction of code into modules and inserting it is very easy using marathon.It has different themes of UI which attracts tester to do work on it. Object mapping is quite simple and configuring is very easy for tester to understand and do the work. Debugging of test scripts is also easy and has script console which takes selenium commands. Slow play of test cases is also available.It allows to create multiple fixtures for different types of tests. -
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Project continued at github, see https://github.com/wolfc01/procexp/blob/master/README.md Graphical process explorer for Linux. Shows process information: process tree, TCP IP connections and graphical performance figures for processes. Aims to mimic Windows procexp from sysinternals, and aims to be more usable than top and ps, especially for advanced users. Audience for this tool: * Advanced system administrators trying to analyze on process level what is going on in a production server; * Software developers analyzing the troughput of their process: e.g. TCP throughput, memory usage, memory leaks; The most advanced feature is the monitoring of TCP/IP traffic figures, for each SINGLE process (actual connections and throughput). As far as known no other tool has this capability. In the process tree, use the right mouse button to monitor process details.
