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A curated collection of resources covering all aspects of load testing using Gatling and related stuff: plugins, integrations, testing techniques, DevOps practices, etc.

Gatling is an open-source load and performance testing framework based on Scala, Akka and Netty.

Official Resources

Homepage
Documentation
Source code

Getting Started

A first look at Gatling, a DSL based load test tool
Gatling: Take your performance tests to the next level
Load Testing with Gatling. The Complete Guide

Tutorials

Load testing gRPC services with Gatling
Creating a custom Gatling protocol for AWS Lambda
Load testing ZeroMQ with a custom DSL for Gatling

Distributed Testing

Distributed load testing with Gatling and Kubernetes
Gatling – Scaling Out Your Load Tests
Distributed Gatling

Solution to run Gatling simulation tests in a distributed/cluster environment.

gatling-operator

Automating distributed Gatling load testing using Kubernetes operator.

Tools

Plugins

gatling-sbt-plugin

Gatling SBT plugin to integrate Gatling with SBT, allowing to use Gatling as a testing framework.

gatling-build-plugin

An SBT plugin to share common settings across Gatling's projects' builds.

gatling-maven-plugin

Gatling Maven Extensions.

gatling-gradle-plugin

Gatling plugin for Gradle.

gatling-remote-sbt

Remote execution plugin for Gatling load tests.

gatling-junitrunner

JUnit wrapper around Gatling simulations.

gatling-grpc

Gatling load test plugin for gRPC.

gatling-aws

Gatling custom protocol for AWS Lambda.

gatling-xmpp-protocol

XMPP protocol for stress test XMPP servers with Gatling.

gatling-jwt

An extension to Gatling 2.0 to help make JWT-signed requests.

gatling-mqtt

A Gatling plugin for stress testing MQTT.

gatling-kafka

A Gatling plugin for stress testing Apache Kafka protocol.

gatling-kafka

Gatling plugin for Kafka.

gatling-kafka-plugin

Plugin for support Kafka in Gatling.

gatling-amqp-plugin

Plugin for support performance testing with AMQP in Gatling (3.2.x).

gatling-jdbc-plugin

Simple Gatling plugin for JDBC support.

gatling-picatinny

Library with a bunch of useful functions that extend Gatling DSL.

gatling-sql

Gatling extension for JDBC or Spark Thrift Server stress testing.

gatling-tcp-extensions

TCP extensions for Gatling.

gatling-thrift

Gatling third party plugin for Apache Thrift.

gatling-bolt

Support Neo4j Bolt protocol for Gatling.

gatling-zeromq

A Gatling stress test plugin for ZeroMQ protocol.

gatling-dubbo

A Gatling plugin for running load tests on Apache Dubbo.

gatling-wait

Plugin that simplifies waiting for specific events allowing customizable conditions, attempt management, and error handling.

Frameworks

Kraken

Load testing IDE based on Gatling by OctoPerf.

Karate Gatling

Re-use Karate API-tests as performance tests executed by Gatling.

Taurus

Gatling Executor in Taurus framework.

Carrier

Continuous test execution platform with ability to perform load testing using customized JMeter and Gatling containers.

Gatlytron

Gatling Base Framework for easy onboarding.

Reporting

gatling-report

Parse Gatling simulation.log files to output CSV stats or build HTML reports with Plotly charts.

gatling2allure

Convert Gatling log to Allure report.

gatling-elasticsearch

Logger which parses raw Gatling logs and sends them to the Elasticsearch.

Sandbox

gatling-scaffold

Base for load test project using Gatling, InfluxDB and Grafana.

perfiz

A dockerised API performance test setup based on Gatling with Grafana dashboards and Prometheus monitoring.

Miscellaneous

dakiya

Convert Postman collections to Gatling scripts.

gatling-template.g8

A Giter8 template for Gatling performance test project.

CI

Gatling Jenkins Plugin

[Jenkins plugin](https://plugins.jenkins.io/gatling/) for Gatling.

run-gatling

GitHub Action to easily integrate Gatling performance tests to GitHub workflows.

Test Management

Performance and load testing with Gatling

Integrating with Xray Test Management on Jira and Gatling.

Trainings & Courses

Gatling Courses

By Udemy.

Performance Test Automation 101: Gatling, Lighthouse, & Jenkins

By Educative.

Videos

Talks

Load Testing Done Right with Gatling

Stéphane Landelle @ Voxxed Days Belgrade 2015.

Load Testing Crash Course with Gatling

Stéphane Landelle @ Devoxx Belgium 2022.

Load Testing Made Easy with Gatling

Rafał Piotrowski @ Scala Days 2023 Madrid.

Video Tutorials

Performance Testing with Gatling

Tutorial series by Tomi Tiihonen.

Gatling Tutorials for Beginners

Tutorial series by James Willett.

Community

Gatling Community
`gatling` on Stack Overflow
`@GatlingTool` on Twitter

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