Flood is a profile-driven HTTP load tester. It can be used to gather important performance metrics for your website.

Please see the FAQ for common questions about flood.

Please read the Building flood document for a quick installation guide for flood.

Flood's configuration is XML-based. Some of the links below showcase some of the features available in flood. All of these files are available in the examples directory in flood's Subversion repository.

• Round-robin annotated flood config example (Recommended for flood newbies)
• An example using dynamic content-specific variables
• An example using keepalives
• An example using SSL
• An example using timers
• A sh/gawk script that shows how to interpret the relative_times output of flood

You may browse the flood's Subversion repository online or via flood ViewCVS

Anonymous Subversion access (via WebDAV) is available.

 % svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/test/flood/trunk flood

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Like all Apache Software Foundation projects, flood is licensed under The Apache License.