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How to Install and Use Ddosify High Performance Testing Tool in Linux

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In this article, I will take you through the installation and usage of Ddosify for high performance testing in Linux. Ddosify is a free and open source Golang based tool available for performance testing of web applications. It is simple and easy to use in comparison to other open source tools like Apache JMeter. It is available for both free as well for commercial usage. More on GitHub.

Features

  • It currently supports HTTP, HTTPS and HTTP/2 protocol.
  • You can actually create your flow using just a JSON file.
  • You can test your system's limits across different load types.

How to Install and Use Ddosify High Performance Testing Tool in Linux

How to Install and Use Ddosify High Performance Testing Tool in Linux

Also Read: How to Use AIDE for Integrity Checks in Linux (RHEL/CentOS 7/8)

Step 1: Prerequisites

a) You should have a running Linux Server. In our case, we are using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server. This could be different for you.

b) You should have sudo or root access to run privileged commands.

c) You should have curl utility and a package manager available in your System.

 

Step 2: Update Your Server

Before installing a new package, let's check for any new available updates using apt update command. If there are any specific packages which needs to be upgraded then run apt upgrade command to upgrade it to the latest version.

root@cyberithub:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [114 kB]
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [108 kB]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [114 kB]
Get:7 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease [1,811 B]
Get:8 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main i386 Packages [610 kB]
Get:9 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages [1,608 kB]
Get:10 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main Translation-en [308 kB]
Get:11 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [279 kB]

If you are using RHEL/CentOS based Systems then you can use below command to update your System.

yum update
dnf update

If any of the packages needs to be upgraded then you upgrade it by using below command.

yum upgrade
dnf upgrade

 

Step 3: Install Ddosify

While there are multiple ways to install Ddosify package in the System, we will use the most easiest one that is by using the Installation Script. You can go to GitHub page and get the latest script to download and install the package. Below is the latest install.sh script needed to run to complete the installation.

root@cyberithub:~# curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ddosify/ddosify/master/scripts/install.sh | sh
Downloading latest ddosify binary from https://github.com/ddosify/ddosify/releases/download/v0.7.5/ddosify_0.7.5_linux_amd64.tar.gz
Installing ddosify to /usr/local/bin/
Installed ddosify to /usr/local/bin/

 

Step 4: Check Version

After successful installation, check the installed version by using ddosify -version command as shown below.

root@cyberithub:~# ddosify -version
Version: 0.7.5
Git commit: 1af3316
Built 2022-03-05T03:47:37Z
Go version: go1.17.7
OS/Arch: linux/amd64

 

Step 5: Simple Load Test

To perform a simple load test, we are using our internal setup localhost Server as target(-t) and running the test using ddosify -t https://localhost:443 command as shown below. It is important to note here that we are using our internal URL https://localhost:443 as target. You should also use only those URLs as target which you are the owner.

NOTE:

Please note that user should always be the owner of the Target System. Using it for harmful purposes is extremely forbidden. Ddosify team & company is not responsible for its’ usages and consequences.
root@cyberithub:~# ddosify -t https://localhost:443
⚙️ Initializing...
🔥 Engine fired.

🛑 CTRL+C to gracefully stop.
✔️ Successful Run: 2 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.27993s
✔️ Successful Run: 17 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.24813s
✔️ Successful Run: 31 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.24365s
✔️ Successful Run: 47 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.25068s
✔️ Successful Run: 62 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.24539s
✔️ Successful Run: 77 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.24364s
✔️ Successful Run: 92 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.25380s
✔️ Successful Run: 100 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.25622s

RESULT
-------------------------------------
Success Count: 100 (100%)
Failed Count: 0 (0%)

Durations (Avg):
DNS :0.0016s
Connection :0.3395s
TLS :0.1017s
Request Write :0.0002s
Server Processing :0.1511s
Response Read :0.6621s
Total :1.2562s

Status Code (Message) :Count
200 (OK) :100

 

Step 6: Change Total Request Count

By default, total request count will be set as 100. If you want to change this count let's say to 1000 then you need to use -n option and pass the value as shown below.

root@cyberithub:~# ddosify -t https://localhost:443 -n 1000
⚙️ Initializing...
🔥 Engine fired.

🛑 CTRL+C to gracefully stop.
✔️ Successful Run: 9 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.31956s
✔️ Successful Run: 126 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.45559s
✔️ Successful Run: 268 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.59347s
✔️ Successful Run: 418 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.65413s
✔️ Successful Run: 570 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.69131s
✔️ Successful Run: 703 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.71053s
✔️ Successful Run: 844 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.74529s
✔️ Successful Run: 1000 100% ❌ Failed Run: 0 0% ⏱️ Avg. Duration: 1.75981s


RESULT
-------------------------------------
Success Count: 1000 (100%)
Failed Count: 0 (0%)

Durations (Avg):
DNS :0.0045s
Connection :0.4182s
TLS :0.1914s
Request Write :0.0078s
Server Processing :0.2301s
Response Read :0.9078s
Total :1.7598s

Status Code (Message) :Count
200 (OK) :1000

 

Step 7: Type of the Load Test

Ddosify supports three kind of workloads - Linear, Incremental and Waved. Linear workload injects uniform load over a period of time. This can be tested by using -l linear option with ddosify command as shown below.

root@cyberithub:~# ddosify -t https://localhost:443 -l linear

Incremental type allows a gradual increase in workload over the time. This can be tested by using -l incremental option as shown below.

root@cyberithub:~# ddosify -t https://localhost:443 -l incremental

Waved type injects load in crest and trough form. This can be tested by using -l waved option as shown below.

root@cyberithub:~# ddosify -t https://localhost:443 -l waved

 

Step 8: Using Config File

Ddosify allows us to use all its capabilities using config file. The features that can be used through config file are as follows:-

  • Scenario creation
  • Custom load type creation
  • Payload from a file
  • Multipart/form-data payload
  • Extra connection configuration, like keep-alive enable/disable logic
  • HTTP2 support

To use the config file, use below command.

ddosify -config <json_config_path>

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