# six-ddc/plow

A high-performance HTTP benchmarking tool that includes a real-time web UI and terminal display

Repository: https://github.com/six-ddc/plow
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/plow
Homepage: https://deepwiki.com/six-ddc/plow
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: load-testing, apachebench, visualization, http, realtime, performance, cli, load, wrk
Last push: 2026-04-28T15:48:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 73/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 79, release rhythm 49, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1907, "days_push": 127, "days_rel": 127, "gap_med": 490, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4518, forks 151 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:52.708957+00:00)

## What it is
Plow is a high-performance HTTP(S) benchmarking tool written in Go, built on fasthttp for maximum throughput. It reports real-time latency histograms, percentiles, and summary statistics via both a terminal display and a live web UI.

## Use cases
- load test an HTTP endpoint with concurrent connections
- measure latency percentiles for my API
- alternative to wrk or ab with a real-time web UI
- stress test a web server for a fixed duration
- watch live RPS and latency charts while benchmarking
- benchmark an HTTPS service from the command line

## When to choose
- you need high-throughput HTTP load generation with low benchmarking overhead
- you want real-time latency histograms and percentiles without extra tooling
- you prefer a single static binary or Docker image over complex load-testing setups

## When to avoid
- you need distributed load generation from multiple machines
- you require scripted scenarios, assertions, or complex multi-step user flows
- you need non-HTTP protocols or GUI-driven test authoring

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: load-testing, benchmarking, http-client, data-visualization, cli
- domain: performance, web-development, developer-tools, testing
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform, go
- tags: http-benchmarking, realtime-ui, wrk-alternative, ab-alternative, latency-percentiles, fasthttp, command-line, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- six-ddc/plow (main) score 73

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:52.708957+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 2026-08-29T18:20:18.628760+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/six-ddc/plow (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:52.708957+00:00, sha 2f6cbd529432)
  - homepage: https://deepwiki.com/six-ddc/plow (fetched 2026-08-29T09:06:08.475271+00:00, sha 4354fc4f41b2)
  - site_page: https://deepwiki.com/six-ddc/plow/1.1-installation-guide (fetched 2026-08-29T09:06:08.477869+00:00, sha 6d880277c44c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.