# codesenberg/bombardier

Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go

Repository: https://github.com/codesenberg/bombardier
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bombardier
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: fast, http, cli, benchmarking, bombardier, go, golang, performance, linux, windows, macos, load-testing
Last push: 2026-08-25T22:40:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 79/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3748, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 547, "gap_med": 4.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6828, forks 330 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:48.887206+00:00)

## What it is
Bombardier is a fast cross-platform HTTP(S) benchmarking tool written in Go, built on fasthttp with an optional net/http client for HTTP/2.x support. It measures requests per second, latency distributions, and throughput against target URLs.

## Use cases
- load test an HTTP endpoint with configurable concurrency
- measure requests per second and latency of a web server
- benchmark HTTP/2 services
- get latency percentile distributions for an API
- stress test a server before production deployment
- compare throughput of different web frameworks

## When to choose
- you need a fast, single-binary CLI load tester across Linux, macOS, and Windows
- you want detailed latency distribution and throughput statistics
- you need very high request rates via fasthttp

## When to avoid
- you need complex scripted scenarios or multi-step user flows (use k6 or Locust)
- you need to set a custom Host header with the fasthttp client
- you need distributed load generation from multiple machines

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: load-testing, benchmarking, http-client, cli
- domain: performance, developer-tools, web-development, testing
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform
- tags: http-benchmarking, fasthttp, stress-testing, latency-distribution, golang, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- codesenberg/bombardier (main) score 79

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:48.887206+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 2026-08-29T17:41:53.844211+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/codesenberg/bombardier (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:48.887206+00:00, sha d29a2bdff375)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.