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Date Published
Author
Bowen Chen
Word count
683
Language
English
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None

Summary

Speedscale is a testing framework built for Kubernetes applications that enables load testing with real-world production scenarios by replaying actual API traffic. It allows customers to capture snapshots of real-time traffic and generate sanitized load tests without scripting required. The framework's integration with Datadog APM enables users to view Speedscale reports alongside their application telemetry, facilitating efficient troubleshooting. Speedscale's traffic replay feature simulates incoming requests to service endpoints, allowing for testing of varied conditions such as high throughput, faults, and response latency. By ingesting Speedscale reports as Datadog Events, users can track report history and correlate performance against historical application metrics in Datadog APM. The integration also enables the visualization of key traffic replay data using an out-of-the-box dashboard, providing a high-level overview of recent traffic replays and enabling quick monitoring of service performance.