locust_influx

Send information about locust requests to InfluxDB and follow the progress through Grafana charts.

Test and taste it locally

Start an InfluxDB container locally:

docker run -d --name influxdb -d -p 8086:8086 influxdb

Start a Grafana container locally:

docker run -d --name grafana -d -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana

Crete a new python virtual environment and install locust_influx:

pip install locust_influx

Run the example locustfile contained in this repo (Change the host to point to desired one):

locust -f ./locustfile.py --no-web --clients 10 --hatch-rate 1 --run-time 60s --host http://localhost:8080

Open your local Grafana in the browser at http://localhost:3000/

Import the example dashboard from locust_dashboard.json file.