"It's like bees with machine guns, but way more power!"
WaspsWithBazookas is your ultimate distributed load testing weapon. Think of it as having an army of angry wasps, each armed with rocket launchers, ready to absolutely obliterate your servers with HTTP requests.
But here's the kicker: it's not just powerful—it's smart, scalable, and actually fun to use.
- One Hive, Many Wasps: Coordinate an army of load testing wasps from any location from a single command center
- Cloud-Native: Deploy wasps across multiple servers, regions, or cloud providers
- Auto-Scaling: Spawn wasps on-demand to match your testing needs
- Rust-Powered: Blazing fast performance with memory safety.
- Focused on Real Results: Aimed to beat or match
wrkperformance so you know your test results are your servers' real performance and not a limitation of the tool. - Real-Time Metrics: Get detailed insights into latency, throughput, and error rates
- Simple CLI: Start testing with just a few commands
- REST API: Full programmatic control for CI/CD integration
- Real-Time Monitoring: Watch your wasps wreak havoc in real-time
- Authentication: Secure your wasp army with token-based auth
- Health Checks: Automatic wasp monitoring and recovery
- Graceful Shutdown: Clean termination without leaving orphaned processes
- Comprehensive Logging: Detailed logs for debugging and analysis
- Error Handling: Robust error recovery and reporting
- Microservices Testing: Test individual services under realistic load
- API Performance: Validate your REST APIs can handle production traffic
- Infrastructure Stress Testing: Find out the bottlenecks in your infrastructure and know the overhead of each part of your stack.
- CDN Performance: Test content delivery across multiple regions
- Capacity Planning: Understand your infrastructure limits before they matter
- Chaos Engineering: Intentionally bring things to their knees to make them stronger
- Performance Regression Testing: Catch performance issues before they hit production
- Load Balancer Testing: Ensure your load balancers work under stress
- Feature Testing: Validate new features under load before deployment
- Performance Benchmarks: Establish baseline performance metrics
- Integration Testing: Test how your services behave under load together
- Release Validation: Ensure new releases don't break performance
🏠 HIVE (Command Center)
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Wasp Army Spread Out Across the World (or not)
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🎯 TARGET SERVER
- Hive: Your command center that coordinates all wasps
- Wasps: Individual load testing agents that do the heavy lifting
- Distributed: Each wasp runs independently, maximizing throughput
- Millions of RPS: Scale to millions of requests per second
- Sub-microsecond Latency: Precise timing measurements
- Real-time Reporting: Get results as they happen
- Authentication: Secure your wasp army
- Health Monitoring: Automatic wasp health checks
- Graceful Scaling: Add/remove wasps without downtime
- Comprehensive Logging: Full audit trail of all operations
Want to see this in action? Here's how to get started in under 2 minutes:
# 1. Install the tools
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Phara0h/WaspsWithBazookas/main/install.sh | bash
# 2. Start the test dummy server (your target)
test-dummy --port 8080 --host 127.0.0.1
# 3. Start the hive (command center)
hive --port 4269
- Go to http://127.0.0.1:4269
- Click "Spawn Local Wasps"
- Set the target to http://127.0.0.1:8080
- Click Launch the attack!
Boom! You just launched a distributed load test with 2 wasps, each using 10 threads and 100 connections for 30 seconds. That's 2,000 concurrent connections hitting your target! 🎯
💡 Pro Tip: The test dummy server now provides ultra-fast, httpbin-style endpoints for every load testing scenario. See the Test Dummy Guide for details! Very useful for testing infrastructure sicne you don't want the http server to be the bottleneck.
- Installation Guide - Get WaspsWithBazookas running on your system many options available
- Usage Guide - Learn how to command your wasp army
- Test Dummy Guide - Use the built-in test server for ultra-fast, httpbin-style load testing
- API Documentation - Full REST API reference
- Postman Collection - Postman collection for the API
- GitHub Issues - Report bugs and request features
- Discussions - Community support and ideas
Found a bug? Want to add features? We'd love your help! Check out our Contributing Guide and join the swarm! 🐝
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. Dates are displayed in UTC.
- FIxed some more weird https issues
2c36552
10 July 2025
- chore: bump version to 2.0.3 (patch)
3b2a04f - Fixed typo preventing https sites not to work xD
c46f936 - Removed docker and disabled homebrew since WWB is not notable enough
c8d1af4
8 July 2025
- chore: bump version to 2.0.2 (patch)
5d2054c - Update Cargo.toml
3288762 - Update README.md
80c0213 - Removed chocolatey don't want the hassle
ce5eae5 - Update chocolatey.yml
9c10910 - Fix Chocolatey workflow triggers - add multiple trigger types and better version handling
b1170ca - Fix Chocolatey workflow to properly create packages in chocolatey-community repository
91f1869 - Remove redundant homebrew.yml workflow - using release.yml for Homebrew core submission
b1b2ff6 - homebrew fixes
8d79830 - Fix Homebrew formula to build from source and clean up old ARM64 references
18f9375 - Update Homebrew workflow to use mislav/bump-homebrew-formula-action for core submission
29f296a - Fix Homebrew formula to build from source instead of using cargo install
f84178d - Fix Homebrew formula update action - downgrade to v3 and add debugging
7ca1c8d - Update INTRO.md
45c25b4
8 July 2025
- chore: bump version to 2.0.1 (patch)
10ee889 - Fixed windows issue with set_tcp_nodelay
58ac9f1 - Remove ARM64 Linux target due to OpenSSL cross-compilation issues
d8ffc33 - Update release.yml
98fa4f7 - Update release.yml
98fad23 - Update release.yml
79c745d - Update release.yml
4ab5ba5 - updated docs and attempt to fix release action
98a24b4 - Update release.yml
606a295 - Update release.yml
de332e9 - Update release.yml
efa001c - Update release.yml
040bfec - Updated workflows
c595a54 - Update release.yml
3039cea - Fixed readme
d7215e7 - Fix autochange log
2b33b55
8 July 2025
- Bump handlebars from 4.7.6 to 4.7.7
#6 - Bump fastify-static from 2.5.0 to 4.2.4
#7 - Bump ajv from 6.10.0 to 6.12.6
#8 - Bump minimist from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6
#9 - Bump node-fetch from 2.6.1 to 2.6.7
#10 - Bump qs from 6.5.2 to 6.5.3
#11 - Bump find-my-way from 2.2.3 to 2.2.5
#5 - Bump node-fetch from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1
#4 - Bump fastify from 2.4.1 to 2.15.1
#3 - chore: bump version to 2.0.0 (major)
efc07ae - Created test dummy service, docs, workflows, and much more
d1830b5 - Init commit for full rewrite in rust + no more wrk depend
82b21d7
28 April 2020
- Added /hive/ceasefire, removed node_modules and fixed security modules.
5c57f6d - Set theme jekyll-theme-slate
f279cd7
26 September 2019
26 September 2019
- Added landing page on /
3c93610 - Added landing page on /
08c9e89 - Delete _config.yml
832a1dc - Set theme jekyll-theme-cayman
74b84fe - Update package.json
427207f - Update README.md
df8071f
2 July 2019
- Ceasefire, wasp auto retry and bug squashing
9230011
1 July 2019
- Percentage complete and invaild targets
ea71892
1 July 2019
19 June 2019
- Fixed a quick bug to catch errors on poke
b2133e7
19 June 2019
19 June 2019
- Auto wasp regeneration, error logging and misc bug fixes
5ff11e6 - Added wasp heartbeats, local wasp spawning from hive and wrk timeout option
2bebc1d - update package num
bbd2bed - added file logging
f8b726d - fixed cli poke bug and hive poke parse bug
e7af2b5 - Fixed various bugs and spelling errors
4797516 - added * ip listen
ebff346 - Update package.json
61e6179 - Update wwb-cli-spawn-local.js
d4d0f03 - Fixed some bugs wrk lua scripts should work now.
936551e - Update README.md
75c577f - Update README.md
0a1c634 - Basic command line functionality
7a0cf7e - Added test server
a347e1f - Fixed nonSuccessRequests
1a06650 - Update README.md
de9ad82 - Set theme jekyll-theme-minimal
f805dc8 - Set theme jekyll-theme-slate
249f804 - Update API.md
7536fa3 - Update README.md
5ca7f2e - Added some init docs
3b91133 - WRK scripts now work, reporting and the rest of the functionality
dace65c - Init commit basic functionality working
9ca05ba - Initial commit
efffbf3