What’s the toughest API benchmarking challenge you’ve faced?

Syed Najam Abbas Naqvi — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:58:00 +0000

Drop your thoughts below — let’s discuss how Glockit can help streamline your workflow!

🚀 Introducing Glockit: Benchmark REST APIs with Ease

If you’ve ever struggled with benchmarking REST APIs, juggling request chaining, or managing concurrency, you’ll love Glockit — a lightweight TypeScript CLI and library designed to make API performance testing simple, powerful, and developer-friendly.

🔑 Why Glockit?

Request Chaining: Extract variables from one response and reuse them in subsequent requests.
Concurrent Execution: Run multiple requests in parallel with configurable concurrency.
Zero Dependencies: Built with minimal external dependencies for reliability.
Real-time Progress Tracking: Clean console-based progress bars.
Flexible Execution Modes: Benchmark by request count or duration.
Multi-format Output: Export results in JSON and CSV for deeper analysis.

⚡ Quick Start

Install globally for CLI usage:

npm install -g glockit

Create a simple benchmark.json:

{
  "name": "E-Commerce API Benchmark",
  "global": {
    "baseUrl": "https://api.example.com/v1",
    "maxRequests": 100,
    "concurrent": 10
  },
  "endpoints": [
    {
      "name": "User Login",
      "url": "/auth/login",
      "method": "POST",
      "body": { "email": "test@example.com", "password": "test123" },
      "variables": [{ "name": "authToken", "path": "token", "from": "response" }]
    },
    {
      "name": "Get Products",
      "url": "/products",
      "method": "GET",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer {{authToken}}" },
      "dependencies": ["User Login"]
    }
  ]
}

Run the benchmark:
npx glockit run --config benchmark.json --save

📊 Example Output

✅ Total Requests: 100
⏱️ Total Time: 1.25s
📈 Requests per Second: 80
✅ Success Rate: 98%

Results are saved in JSON and CSV for easy analysis.

🛠️ Use Cases

Load testing your API workflows
Validating authentication + chained requests
Comparing performance across environments
Generating reproducible benchmark reports

🌟 Get Involved

Glockit is open-source under MIT license. Contributions, feedback, and stars are welcome!
👉 Check out the repo

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