GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker

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PerfKit Benchmarker (PKB) contains a set of benchmarks to measure and compare cloud offerings. The benchmarks use default settings to reflect what most users will see. PerfKit Benchmarker is licensed under the Apache 2 license terms. Please make sure to read, understand and agree to the terms of the LICENSE and CONTRIBUTING files before proceeding.

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Indexed issues: 220
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Merged PRs (30d): 69

Dominant language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 16, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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220 open issues indexed

Add Facebook's LinkBench benchmark Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#27 · 6 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Add a video rendering workload. Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#83 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
fio benchmark should interpret size and filesize, or include machine memory Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#94 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Add a "best practices check Open

enhancement P2

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#114 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Add support for Facebook HHVM Open

enhancement P2

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#119 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
We should add a standard comment block to each Benchmark to detail exactly how it publishes data. Open

enhancement help wanted internal cleanup P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#123 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Concerns with assumptions and limitations of UnixBench Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#125 · 6 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Add a container workload Open

enhancement help wanted P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#134 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
UnixBench benchmark should fail gracefully when executing on machines with >16 CPUs Open

enhancement P2

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#138 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Azure:Cloud Service stood up for every VM? Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#139 · 15 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Note workloads that may failed on shared core / low memory instance types Open

enhancement P2

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#144 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Control for OS/Package/Compiler differences Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#150 · 8 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Documentation for running spec cpu2006 benchmark Open

enhancement internal cleanup P2

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#156 · 11 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Tests completed successfully but they all got this return code error "Could not fetch resource..." during cleaning up benchmark. Open

enhancement P2

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#168 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
If we patch UnixBench - should we continue to call it UnixBench? Open

question

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#179 · 6 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Add option to collect operating system tunings Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#183 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Fio: job file or command line. Open

enhancement

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#184 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Support for IBM Softlayer Open

enhancement P2

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#186 · 9 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Simplify the Object Storage benchmark .boto setup Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#189 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
cassandra heap size config Open

question

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#204 · 7 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
OLDIsim should report Peak QPS and the average+variance of each nodes QPS Open

enhancement

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#216 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Include schema when publishing results to BigQuery Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#229 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Variability Open

enhancement P2

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#234 · 6 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Create a developer guide Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#251 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Add an option to resize the boot size Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#256 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Add a global timeout parameter the exit and cleanup gracefully Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#261 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
IssueCommand timeouts don't kill subprocesses. Open

bug P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#298 · 7 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Simplify running cloud_bigtable_ycsb Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#326 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Compose VMs from OS/cloud-specific class and package manager Open

internal cleanup P2

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#327 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Docker should work on other clouds Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#351 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Rename the packages and benchmarks directions to include linux_ Open

internal cleanup P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#385 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
how to scaleup with benchmarking Open

P1 question

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#395 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Change mysql_service benchmark to subclass from Perfkitbenchmarker.resource.baseresource Open

internal cleanup P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#401 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Add new flag to allow pre-allocating disk blocks Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#411 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Process monitoring Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#426 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Magento Web workload Benchmark Open

enhancement P0

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#427 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Move provisioning phase to dedicated tool Open

enhancement P2

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#429 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Run snapshots with full setup instead of installing all from scratch Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#430 · 6 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Add the ability to run multiple benchmarks concurrently on same machine(s) Open

enhancement P0

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#436 · 10 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Need a machine learning benchmark Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#443 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
OpenStack is using nova network, which is deprecated Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#447 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Make possible to run benchmark without scratch-disk Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#452 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
redis benchmark high variance in side-by-side tests Open

P1 question

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#462 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
can FIO be run on windows ? Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#478 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Run set-interrupts on GCP when using local SSD Open

enhancement P2

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#481 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
SuSE Support Open

enhancement

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#498 · 6 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
KVM as a provider Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#514 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
Refactor the ssh communication channels to malke them extensible to other means of tunneling commands into VMs. Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#550 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
YCSB db size too small. Open

enhancement P1

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#552 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026
fio against_device mode always seq write entire device Open

bug

GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker#559 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 16, 2026

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