HEY(1)                           User Commands                          HEY(1)

NAME
       hey - HTTP load generator, formerly known as rakyll/boom

SYNOPSIS
       hey [options...] <url>

OPTIONS
       -n     Number of requests to run. Default is 200.

       -c     Number of requests to run concurrently. Total number of requests
              cannot be smaller than the concurrency level. Default is 50.

       -q     Rate limit, in queries per second  (QPS).  Default  is  no  rate
              limit.

       -z     Duration  of  application  to  send  requests.  When duration is
              reached, application stops and exits. If duration is  specified,
              n is ignored.  Examples: -z 10s -z 3m.

       -o     Output  type.  If none provided, a summary is printed.  "csv" is
              the only supported alternative. Dumps the  response  metrics  in
              comma-separated values format.

       -m     HTTP method, one of GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS.

       -H     Custom HTTP header. You can specify as many as needed by repeat‐
              ing the flag.  For example,  -H  "Accept:  text/html"  -H  "Con‐
              tent-Type: application/xml" .

       -t     Timeout  for  each  request in seconds. Default is 20, use 0 for
              infinite.

       -A     HTTP Accept header.

       -d     HTTP request body.

       -D     HTTP request body from file. For example, /home/user/file.txt or
              ./file.txt.

       -T     Content-type, defaults to "text/html".

       -a     Basic authentication, username:password.

       -x     HTTP Proxy address as host:port.

       -h2 Enable HTTP/2.

       -host HTTP Host header.

       -disable-compression
              Disable compression.

       -disable-keepalive
              Disable  keep-alive,  prevents re-use of TCP connections between
              different HTTP requests.

       -disable-redirects
              Disable following of HTTP redirects

       -cpus  Number of used cpu cores.  (default for  current  machine  is  6
              cores)

hey 0.1.4                        December 2020                          HEY(1)