NATS is fast and lightweight and places a priority on performance. NATS provides tools for measuring performance. In this tutorial you learn how to benchmark and tune NATS on your systems and environment.
Prerequisites
Start the NATS server with monitoring enabled
Verify that the NATS server starts successfully, as well as the HTTP monitor:
复制 [18541] 2016/10/31 13:26:32.037819 [INF] Starting nats-server version 0.9.4
[18541] 2016/10/31 13:26:32.037912 [INF] Starting http monitor on 0.0.0.0:8222
[18541] 2016/10/31 13:26:32.037997 [INF] Listening for client connections on 0.0.0.0:4222
[18541] 2016/10/31 13:26:32.038020 [INF] Server is ready Installing and running the benchmark utility
The NATS benchmark can be installed and run via Go. Ensure your golang environment is setup.
There are two approaches; you can either install the nats-bench utility in the directory specified in your GOBIN environment variable:
复制 % go install $GOPATH/src/github.com/nats-io/nats.go/examples/nats-bench/main.go ... or you can simply run it via go run:
复制 % go run $GOPATH/src/github.com/nats-io/nats.go/examples/nats-bench/main.go On windows use the % environment variable syntax, replacing $GOPATH with %GOPATH% .
For the purpose of this tutorial, we'll assume that you chose the first option, and that you've added the GOBIN environment variable to your PATH.
The nats-bench utility is straightforward to use. The options are as follows:
复制 % nats-bench -h
Usage: nats-bench [-s server (nats://localhost:4222)] [--tls] [-np NUM_PUBLISHERS] [-ns NUM_SUBSCRIBERS] [-n NUM_MSGS] [-ms MESSAGE_SIZE] [-csv csvfile] <subject> The options are self-explanatory. Each publisher or subscriber runs in its own go routine with its own NATS connection.
Run a publisher throughput test
Let's run a test to see how fast a single publisher can publish one million 16 byte messages to the NATS server.
复制 % nats-bench -np 1 -n 100000 -ms 16 foo The output tells you the number of messages and the number of payload bytes that the client was able to publish per second:
复制 Starting benchmark [msgs=100000, msgsize=16, pubs=1, subs=0]
Pub stats: 7,055,644 msgs/sec ~ 107.66 MB/sec Now increase the number of messages published:
复制 % nats-bench -np 1 -n 10000000 -ms 16 foo
Starting benchmark [msgs=10000000, msgsize=16, pubs=1, subs=0]
Pub stats: 7,671,570 msgs/sec ~ 117.06 MB/sec Run a publish/subscribe throughput test
When using both publishers and subscribers, nats-bench reports aggregate, as well as individual publish and subscribe throughput performance.
Let's look at throughput for a single publisher with a single subscriber:
复制 % nats-bench -np 1 -ns 1 -n 100000 -ms 16 foo Note that the output shows the aggregate throughput as well as the individual publisher and subscriber performance:
复制 Starting benchmark [msgs=100000, msgsize=16, pubs=1, subs=1]
NATS Pub/Sub stats: 2,009,230 msgs/sec ~ 30.66 MB/sec
Pub stats: 1,076,537 msgs/sec ~ 16.43 MB/sec
Sub stats: 1,004,615 msgs/sec ~ 15.33 MB/sec Run a 1:N throughput test
When specifying multiple publishers, or multiple subscribers, nats-bench will also report statistics for each publisher and subscriber individually, along with min/max/avg and standard deviation.
Let's increase both the number of messages, and the number of subscribers.:
复制 % nats-bench -np 1 -ns 5 -n 10000000 -ms 16 foo Output:
复制 Starting benchmark [msgs=10000000, msgsize=16, pubs=1, subs=5]
NATS Pub/Sub stats: 5,730,851 msgs/sec ~ 87.45 MB/sec
Pub stats: 955,279 msgs/sec ~ 14.58 MB/sec
Sub stats: 4,775,709 msgs/sec ~ 72.87 MB/sec
[1] 955,157 msgs/sec ~ 14.57 MB/sec (10000000 msgs)
[2] 955,150 msgs/sec ~ 14.57 MB/sec (10000000 msgs)
[3] 955,157 msgs/sec ~ 14.57 MB/sec (10000000 msgs)
[4] 955,156 msgs/sec ~ 14.57 MB/sec (10000000 msgs)
[5] 955,153 msgs/sec ~ 14.57 MB/sec (10000000 msgs)
min 955,150 | avg 955,154 | max 955,157 | stddev 2 msgs Run a N:M throughput test
When more than 1 publisher is specified, nats-bench evenly distributes the total number of messages (-n) across the number of publishers (-np).
Now let's increase the number of publishers and examine the output:
复制 % nats-bench -np 5 -ns 5 -n 10000000 -ms 16 foo The output:
复制 Starting benchmark [msgs=10000000, msgsize=16, pubs=5, subs=5]
NATS Pub/Sub stats: 6,716,465 msgs/sec ~ 102.49 MB/sec
Pub stats: 1,119,653 msgs/sec ~ 17.08 MB/sec
[1] 226,395 msgs/sec ~ 3.45 MB/sec (2000000 msgs)
[2] 225,955 msgs/sec ~ 3.45 MB/sec (2000000 msgs)
[3] 225,889 msgs/sec ~ 3.45 MB/sec (2000000 msgs)
[4] 224,552 msgs/sec ~ 3.43 MB/sec (2000000 msgs)
[5] 223,933 msgs/sec ~ 3.42 MB/sec (2000000 msgs)
min 223,933 | avg 225,344 | max 226,395 | stddev 937 msgs
Sub stats: 5,597,054 msgs/sec ~ 85.40 MB/sec
[1] 1,119,461 msgs/sec ~ 17.08 MB/sec (10000000 msgs)
[2] 1,119,466 msgs/sec ~ 17.08 MB/sec (10000000 msgs)
[3] 1,119,444 msgs/sec ~ 17.08 MB/sec (10000000 msgs)
[4] 1,119,444 msgs/sec ~ 17.08 MB/sec (10000000 msgs)
[5] 1,119,430 msgs/sec ~ 17.08 MB/sec (10000000 msgs)
min 1,119,430 | avg 1,119,449 | max 1,119,466 | stddev 12 msgs 