Load Testing

Test environment has two parts: test server and SUT (system under test). We have two different setups for two different SUT.

Preparation of SUT

One Instance Setup

Here we have only one Ant Media Server instance as SUT.

+-------------------+                  +----------------------+
|                   |   streaming      |                      |
|                   |   playing        |                      |
|                   | <--------------> |                      |
|    Test Server    |                  |   Ant Media Server   |
|                   |                  |                      |
|                   | <--------------> |                      |
|                   |    rest          |                      |
+-------------------+                  +----------------------+

• To prepare Ant Media Server, please look at here.

Cluster Setup

Here we have a cluster structure as SUT which contains one origin and N edge servers.

                                       +--------------------+
                                       |                    |
                                       |                    |
                                       |  Ant Media Server  |
                            +--------->+                    |
                            |          |     (Origin)       |
+-----------+               |          |                    |
|           |    streaming  |          |                    |
|           +---------------+          +--------------------+
|           |
|Test Server| playing +------------------------------------------------+
|           +<--------+                                                |
|           |         |             Load Balancer                      |
|           +---------+                                                |
+-----------+   rest  +--+------------+---------------------+----------+
                         |            |                     |
                         |            |                     |
                         |            |                     |
                         |            |                     |
                         |            |                     |
           +-------------+--+  +------+---------+     +-----+----------+
           |                |  |                |     |                |
           |                |  |                |     |                |
           |Ant Media Server|  |Ant Media Server| ... |Ant Media Server|
           |                |  |                |     |                |
           |   (Edge-1)     |  |   (Edge-2)     |     |   (Edge-N)     |
           |                |  |                |     |                |
           |                |  |                |     |                |
           +----------------+  +----------------+     +----------------+

• To prepare Cluster, please look at here.

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Ant Media WebRTC Test Tool

You can download WebRTC Load Test Tool from your account at antmedia.io. WebRTC Load Test Tool is listed with Enterprise Edition under Download section of your Subscription.

Ant Media WebRTC Test Tool is a java project for testing Ant Media Server WebRTC capabilities.

• Ant Media WebRTC Test is compatible with Ant Media Server signaling protocol.
• Ant Media WebRTC Test has two modes: publisher and player. (-m flag determines the mode)
• Ant Media WebRTC Test has two options with UI or without UI. (-u flag determines the UI on/off)
• You can save received(in player mode) video.
• You can create load with -n flag as many as your machine CPU lets you.

Running Ant Media WebRTC Test Tool

It can be run from terminal with the following options.

./run.sh -f output.mp4 -m publisher -n 1  #publishes output.mp4 to the server with default name myStream

./run.sh -m player -n 100 -i stream1 -s 10.10.175.53 -u false #plays 100 viewers for default stream myStream

Parameters

Flag 	 Name      	 Default   	 Description                 
---- 	 ----      	 -------   	 -----------   
f    	 File Name 	 test.mp4     	 Source file* for publisher output file for player        
s    	 Server IP 	 localhost 	 server ip                   
q    	 Security  	 false     	 true(wss) or false(ws)      
l        Log Level       3               0:VERBOSE,1:INFO,2:WARNING,3:ERROR,4:NONE
i    	 Stream Id 	 myStream  	 id for stream               
m    	 Mode      	 player    	 publisher or player         
u    	 Show GUI  	 true      	 true or false               
p    	 Port      	 5080      	 websocket port number 
v    	 Verbose   	 false     	 true or false 
n    	 Count     	 1         	 Number of player/publisher connctions 
k        Kafka Broker    null            Kafka broker address with port
r    	 Publish Loop 	 false           true or false
c    	 Codec           h264            h264 or VP8 
d    	 Data Channel    false           true or false 

*File in mp4 format should have h264 encoded video and opus encoded audio