envoyproxy/nighthawk

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L7 (HTTP/HTTPS/HTTP2/HTTP3) performance characterization tool

Stars: 414
Forks: 95
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 179
Avg merge: 2d 9h
Merged PRs (30d): 11

Dominant language: C++
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 9, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 15, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted

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179 open issues indexed

Nighthawk as-a-service Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#22 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Support gRPC Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#24 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add the ability to quantify latency as a function of queries-per-second Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#26 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add the capability to quantify the relationship between bandwidth and latency Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#27 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Integrate with a tracing API (Like OpenTrace, Lightstep, or Zipkin) Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#28 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Make it easy to integrate Nighthawk into CI of other projects Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#29 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Support non-uniform request distributions Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#30 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Support ramping of load and connections Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#31 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
QPS Autoranging Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#33 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add log replay capability Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#34 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Track throughput as a function of load Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#35 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Optimization: max throughput under set latency. Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#36 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add global rate limiting Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#38 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Rate limiter: bursty behavior concerns due to thread scheduling. Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#39 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Merge Statistic implementation with Envoy's Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#43 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Re-use Envoy's stats dumping protos Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#44 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Track more timings in the flow Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#47 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Human readable/writable input/output Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#48 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Snapshot the envoy/nh stats periodically from the workers Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#49 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Get proper url-parsing in place Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#51 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Optionize the cpu warmup delay Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#53 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Optimization: create a stream decoder pool Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#54 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Validate TLS certificates Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#55 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
track cpu time spend by target during benchmark Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#58 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Test-server per-request configuration: add an option to clear values Open

good first issue help wanted

envoyproxy/nighthawk#83 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add an option to allow running multiple concurrent NH instances Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#87 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Nighthawk::Client pollution needs cleaning up Open

help wanted tech-debt

envoyproxy/nighthawk#96 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Allow configuration of server-side request latency distributions Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#102 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Provide time-sampled stats output Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#103 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Evaluate the possibility of switching to libcirclhist Open

question

envoyproxy/nighthawk#115 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Strict-aliasing check failed on network/io_socket_handle_impl.cc Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#131 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Tracing: accurately track sending of uploaded response body Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#138 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Eliminate code duplication in streamResetReasonToResponseFlag Open

tech-debt

envoyproxy/nighthawk#139 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Tracing: test zipkin with a real zipkin server Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#141 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Detect and acknowledge inter-worker imbalances Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#142 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Coverage: ensure we hit the case where the warmup request fails. Open

good first issue help wanted tech-debt

envoyproxy/nighthawk#145 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Stop excluding /api/client/BUILD in check_format Open

help wanted

envoyproxy/nighthawk#165 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Clean up some c++ tests Open

good first issue help wanted

envoyproxy/nighthawk#179 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Bubble up error detail in gRPC service Open

good first issue help wanted

envoyproxy/nighthawk#181 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Consumers of OutputFormatter::formatProto should handle NH exceptions Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#184 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
CLI README.md check/fix based on string library templates Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#189 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add special --rps value to indicate as-fast-as-possible Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#190 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Consider output restructuring Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#195 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Enhanced termination predicates via CEL Open

enhancement

envoyproxy/nighthawk#201 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add an option to enable sequencer loop latency tracking Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#203 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Generate the CLI parsing code from the proto definition Open

enhancement

envoyproxy/nighthawk#209 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Stream handling should be able to apply back-pressure Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#215 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add a script(s) to facilitate release tasks Open

envoyproxy/nighthawk#228 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Update docs/root/version_history.rst Open

P0

envoyproxy/nighthawk#241 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Improve logging Open

good first issue help wanted

envoyproxy/nighthawk#242 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026

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