# nakabonne/ali

Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time

Repository: https://github.com/nakabonne/ali
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ali
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: load-testing, benchmarking, testing-tools, tui, go, visualization, monitoring
Last push: 2026-01-19T06:28:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 63, release rhythm 34, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2182, "days_push": 226, "days_rel": 226, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3937, forks 151 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:30.100585+00:00)

## What it is
ali is a Go-based HTTP load testing CLI tool that generates HTTP traffic against a target URL and plots performance metrics in real time within an embedded terminal UI. It is inspired by vegeta and jplot, offering configurable rate, duration, connections, headers, and TLS options.

## Use cases
- load test an HTTP endpoint and watch latency metrics live in the terminal
- benchmark my API before a production release
- stress test a web service with a configurable request rate
- plot real-time HTTP performance charts without leaving the terminal
- export load test results to a directory for later analysis
- compare response times under sustained traffic

## When to choose
- you want real-time visualization of load test metrics in a terminal UI
- you prefer a single lightweight Go binary over JVM-based tools like JMeter
- you need quick ad-hoc HTTP benchmarking with simple CLI flags
- you want a vegeta-style tool with an interactive TUI

## When to avoid
- you need distributed load generation across multiple machines
- you require scripted test scenarios with assertions or CI-integrated test suites
- you need protocol support beyond HTTP such as gRPC or WebSocket load testing
- you want headless execution without the terminal UI

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: load-testing, benchmarking, data-visualization, terminal-ui, http-client, monitoring
- domain: developer-tools, testing, performance
- platform: windows, cli, go, cross-platform
- tags: http-load-testing, real-time-analysis, tui, vegeta-inspired, stress-testing, command-line, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- nakabonne/ali (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:30.100585+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:24:38.762008+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nakabonne/ali (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:30.100585+00:00, sha 8fb1cac70519)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.