stress

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Stress Testing

Argo Events provides a set of simple tools to do stress testing:

• An events generator for Event Sources
• An application to create testing EventSources and Sensors, or hook into your existing ones, grab data and provide reports

Before You Start

• Set up Prometheus metrics monitoring.

  Follow the instruction to set up Prometheus to grab metrics, also make sure the basic Kubenetes metrics like Pod CPU/memory ussage are captured. Display the metrics using tools like Grafana.

• Create the EventSource and Sensor for testing.

  You can use the tool below to create the EventSource and Sensor, or use your existing ones for testing. If you want to run the testing against a webhook typed EventSource (e.g. webhook, sns, etc), you need to set up the ingress for it beforehands.

  # Make sure you have sourced a KUBECONFIG file
  go run ./test/stress/main.go --help

Steps

• Use the Generator or any other generators your have to generate messages for your EventSource.

• Explore the metrics in Grafana, watch the changes of golden metrics such as Errors, Latency and Saturation.

About This Tool

This tool can be used to create a set of EventBus, EventSource and Sensor for testing in your cluster.

For example, command below creates a webhook EventSource and a Sensor with log trigger, and it captures the data and provides a simple report afterwards. It will exit in 5 minutes and clean up the created resources.

go run ./test/stress/main.go --es-type webhook --trigger-type log --hard-timeout 5m

The spec of webhook EventSource is located in testdata/eventsources, and the Sensor for log trigger is in testdata/sensors, make sure you update the specs with desired CPU/memory you want to use before running the command.

The report looks like below:

++++++++++++++++++++++++ Events Summary +++++++++++++++++++++++
Event Name                    : test
Total processed events        : 243
Events sent successful        : 243
Events sent failed            : 0
First event sent at           : 2021-03-19 09:42:03.895959 -0700 PDT m=+101.008343356
Last event sent at            : 2021-03-19 09:42:08.251331 -0700 PDT m=+105.363714318
Total time taken              : 4.355370962s
--

+++++++++++++++++++++++ Actions Summary +++++++++++++++++++++++
Trigger Name                  : log-trigger
Total triggered actions       : 243
Action triggered successfully : 243
Action triggered failed       : 0
First action triggered at     : 2021-03-19 09:42:03.907679 -0700 PDT m=+101.020062977
Last action triggered at      : 2021-03-19 09:42:08.253928 -0700 PDT m=+105.366311326
Total time taken              : 4.346248349s
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It could also hook into your existing EventSources and Sensors to give a simple report.

go run ./test/stress/main.go --es-name my-sqs-es --sensor-name my-sensor --hard-timeout 5m