Load testing.
also: load test · load tests · stress test · stress testing · soak test · spike testDriving realistic synthetic traffic at a system to find its real limits and bottlenecks before production traffic does.
the two-minute refresher
- Model real traffic mixes, not one endpoint in a loop.
- Ramp up until latency or errors break the SLO: that is your real capacity.
- Watch the bottleneck move: CPU, then the database, then connection pools.
- Run in a production-like environment, or results mislead.