A Docker image to help you get a nicely formatted result for the response time of a website or API. ⏲
I write a lot of technical blog posts, and I often want to compare the response times of different hosting providers from various locations around the world. I sometimes use Pingdom for these tests, but it doesn't support request bodies, headers, or different methods (POST, PUT, etc.). Plus, they throttle your usage, so it's not great if you want to run a lot of tests.
After searching for how I could accomplish this with curl, I found this answer on Stack Overflow. This was good, but I wanted to simplify it and put it in a ready-to-deploy Docker image so I could quickly run it on any host that will run a container. 🐳
The goal of this project is to be able to quickly run the script from several nodes (and my local machine) to determine how quickly the API or website will respond from each of them.
Pull the latest version from Docker Hub:
docker pull draftdev/rtA simple GET request:
docker run --rm draftdev/rt jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts
# Response
final_url: http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts
response_code: 200s
time_namelookup: 0.025098s
time_connect: 0.042070s
time_appconnect: 0.000000s
time_pretransfer: 0.042265s
time_redirect: 0.000000s
time_starttransfer: 0.091801s
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time_total: 0.098020sA more complex POST request (you can use any of the args that curl supports):
docker run --rm draftdev/rt jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"title": "Another great post"}' -X POST
# Response
final_url: http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts
response_code: 201s
time_namelookup: 0.014518s
time_connect: 0.029930s
time_appconnect: 0.000000s
time_pretransfer: 0.029982s
time_redirect: 0.000000s
time_starttransfer: 0.143273s
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time_total: 0.143517sTo run this image on a DigitalOcean droplet, you can use the Docker marketplace image.
- Log in and create a new Droplet.
- Select the Docker marketplace image
- Select the smallest ($5/mo) droplet
- Select a single region
- Add your SSH key
- Hit deploy
Once deployed, you can run this container via SSH:
ssh root@<YOUR_DROPLET_IP> "docker run --rm draftdev/rt jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{\"title\": \"Another great post\"}' -X POST"
# Response
final_url: http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts
response_code: 201s
time_namelookup: 0.001051s
time_connect: 0.004071s
time_appconnect: 0.000000s
time_pretransfer: 0.004155s
time_redirect: 0.000000s
time_starttransfer: 0.046294s
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time_total: 0.046395sRepeat the droplet creation process in each region you want to test your app from, or migrate the droplet using a snapshot.
Coming soon.
Coming soon.
Improvements are welcome, but please use the Issues to discuss them first. This is a simple script, so I don't envision bundling much more functionality into it.
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