What are some good ways to benchmark a REST api service?
benchmarking, google-chrome, rest
Solution
ab is one of the widely used apache benchmarking tool.
It provides the results in the format you are looking for with the kind of load you want to generate.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html
Problem
Currently I use the REST Console extension for Google Chrome to see the JSON responses. I really like this client because it allows me to send authenticated requests that would otherwise not work for a anonymous request. Are there any tools that I can use similar to this where I can benchmark the performance of my server? For example returning the average response time, response time when under stress(1000 requests/sec). What tools can I use that will be able to provide me with this information for a REST api service? I've looked into Jmeter but I don't think there is a Chrome plugin for it. I'm looking for a open ended answer.