gRPC support

[nsavelyeva]

Proposal

Could you please implement gRPC support in Vegeta?

Background

There is a need to benchmark gRPC uServices, we have many of them and we would like to use the same tool as we use for HTTP uServices. The same feature request was raised almost 2 years ago https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/issues/401. Are there any plans for the near future to include gRPC implementation into the scope?

Workarounds

For gRPC we use another load generator tools.

[fengnex]

@nsavelyeva Would you like mention the full name of the tool that you use to attack gRPC services? Can it attack other normal RPC servces developed with other libraries like netty or thrift?

[nsavelyeva]

@fengnex
We use K6 and sometimes JMeter with this plugin.

[peterbourgon]

gRPC is not HTTP 🤷

[ytsssun]

gRPC is not HTTP 🤷

Not sure I agree with this, gRPC is HTTP2 based.