artillery-engine-kafka

Artillery.io Kafka Plugin

Load Test Kafka with Artillery

Based on the artillery-engine-kinesis plugin

This is a work-in-progress

Usage

Install the plugin

# If Artillery is installed globally:
npm install -g artillery-engine-kafka

Define a scenario

config:
  target: "kafka_topic"
  kafka:
    client:
      kafkaHost: "localhost:9092"
  phases:
    - duration: 10
      arrivalRate: 5
  engines:
    kafka: {}
 
scenarios:
  - name: "Send message to cluster"
    engine: kafka
    flow:
      - publishMessage:
          # destination topic, required 
          topic: "myTestTopic"
          # size of the batch, default 1 
          batch: 10
          # size of the message in bytes, default 300. 
          # Ignored if data is defined 
          size: 500
          # message payload, takes precedence over size parameter 
          # it can be an object or a string 
          data:
            name: "Mr Charles J. Message"
            location: "London, UK"

Run the scenario

artillery run my-scenario.yml