BurstLoad v4.1

BurstLoad is a high-concurrency web stress simulator built for developers and sysadmins who want to benchmark and monitor the resilience of their own web services under simulated load.

Educational use only. Always test responsibly and never target infrastructure you do not own.

Features

• Threaded, concurrent HTTP requests
• Randomised headers and user-agents
• Realtime response logging and status tracking
• Command-line control over concurrency, delays, and timeouts

Usage

python3 burstload.py https://yourdomain.com --threads 50 --delay 0.1 --timeout 5 --log output.log

Changelog

v4.1

• Added latency timing per request
• Improved error logging
• Optional log-to-file feature

v3.5

• Initial CLI tool with basic threading and user-agent rotation

License

MIT License

History

• v1.0.0 (2018‑06‑20) — First public CLI version
• v2.0.0 (2019‑07‑12) — Config & header randomization
• v3.0.0 (2020‑06‑18) — Multi‑threaded load tests
• v4.0.0 (2023‑09‑14) — Async speed boosts
• v4.1.0 (2025‑08‑12) — Latest refinements