Welcome to Tsung’s documentation!

Everything you need to know about Tsung

About Tsung

Tsung is a high-performance benchmark framework for various protocols including HTTP, XMPP, LDAP, etc

• Website: tsung.erlang-projects.org

• Source code: github.com/processone/tsung

• Bugtracker: ` <https://github.com/processone/tsung/issues>`

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. What is Tsung?
  • 1.2. What is Erlang and why is it important for Tsung?
  • 1.3. Tsung background
• 2. Features
  • 2.1. Tsung main features
  • 2.2. HTTP related features
  • 2.3. WEBDAV related features
  • 2.4. Jabber/XMPP related features
  • 2.5. PostgreSQL related features
  • 2.6. MySQL related features
  • 2.7. Websocket related features
  • 2.8. AMQP related features
  • 2.9. MQTT related features
  • 2.10. LDAP related features
  • 2.11. Raw plugin related features
  • 2.12. Complete reports set
  • 2.13. Highlights
• 3. Installation
  • 3.1. Dependencies
  • 3.2. Compilation
  • 3.3. Configuration
  • 3.4. Running
  • 3.5. Feedback
• 4. Benchmark Approach
  • 4.1. HTTP/WebDAV
  • 4.2. LDAP
  • 4.3. PostgreSQL
  • 4.4. MySQL
  • 4.5. Jabber/XMPP
• 5. Using the proxy recorder
  • 5.1. PostgreSQL
  • 5.2. HTTP and WEBDAV
• 6. Understanding tsung.xml configuration file
  • 6.1. File structure
  • 6.2. Clients and server
  • 6.3. Monitoring
  • 6.4. Defining the load progression
  • 6.5. Setting options
  • 6.6. Sessions
  • 6.7. Advanced Features
• 7. Statistics and Reports
  • 7.1. File format
  • 7.2. Available stats
  • 7.3. Design
  • 7.4. Generating the report
  • 7.5. Tsung summary
  • 7.6. Graphical overview
  • 7.7. Tsung Plotter
  • 7.8. RRD
• 8. References
• 9. Acknowledgments
• 10. Frequently Asked Questions
  • 10.1. Can’t start distributed clients: timeout error
  • 10.2. Tsung crashes when I start it
  • 10.3. Why do i have error_connect_emfile errors?
  • 10.4. Tsung still crashes/fails when I start it!
  • 10.5. Can I dynamically follow redirect with HTTP?
  • 10.6. What is the format of the stats file tsung.log?
  • 10.7. How can I compute percentile/quartiles/median for transactions or requests response time?
  • 10.8. How can I specify the number of concurrent users?
  • 10.9. SNMP monitoring doesn’t work?!
  • 10.10. How can i simulate a fix number of users?
• 11. Errors list
  • 11.1. error_closed
  • 11.2. error_inet_<ERRORNAME>
  • 11.3. error_unknown_data
  • 11.4. error_unknown_msg
  • 11.5. error_unknown
  • 11.6. error_repeat_<REPEATNAME>
  • 11.7. error_send_<ERRORNAME>
  • 11.8. error_send
  • 11.9. error_connect_<ERRORNAME>
  • 11.10. error_no_online
  • 11.11. error_no_offline
  • 11.12. error_no_free_userid
  • 11.13. error_next_session
  • 11.14. error_mysql_<ERRNO>
  • 11.15. error_mysql_badpacket
  • 11.16. error_pgsql
• 12. Changelog
• 13. tsung-1.0.dtd

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