Broadcasting and streaming
Load test your streaming infrastructure before
the big broadcast
Simulate millions of concurrent viewers to validate your streaming platform's performance
during live events, breaking news, and peak viewing hours.
Trusted by leading broadcasters and streaming platforms
built for prime-time performance
Load testing designed for broadcast scale
Gatling understands persistent connections, adaptive streaming, and the massive concurrent loads your platforms face during live events
Maintain millions of live streaming connections simultaneously. Test HLS, DASH, WebRTC, and custom streaming protocols under realistic viewer loads.
Push your streaming infrastructure to its limits. Find out exactly how many concurrent viewers you can handle before quality degrades or streams fail.
Model actual viewer behavior, channel switching, quality adaptation,
join/leave patterns, and device-specific characteristics for accurate testing.
Track stream quality, buffering rates, bitrate adaptation, and viewer experience metrics during tests. Get instant alerts when performance degrades.
Set quality thresholds for stream delivery and viewer experience.
Automatically validate streaming performance before major live events.
Test from multiple geographic regions to validate CDN performance, edge server capacity, and regional streaming quality under load.
SOLUTION OVERVIEW
Built for broadcast engineering teams
Advanced features designed specifically for streaming infrastructure validation and broadcast performance optimization.
Millions of concurrent viewers
Live events generate massive simultaneous connections. Testing 100 streams locally tells you nothing about 10 million viewers during a championship final.
Global CDN complexity
Content delivery networks, edge servers, and regional variations create distributed bottlenecks that only appear under realistic global load patterns.
Real-time delivery requirements
Streaming isn't just HTTP requests - it's persistent connections, adaptive bitrates, and millisecond-critical delivery that must scale seamlessly.
Dynamic scaling challenges
Sudden viral moments and breaking news create unpredictable traffic spikes that expose weaknesses in auto-scaling and load balancing systems.
Persistent streaming connections
Unlike simple web requests, streaming requires long-lived connections that maintain quality for hours. Traditional load testing tools can't simulate the complexity of adaptive bitrates, buffer management, and connection persistence at broadcast scale.
Zero-tolerance delivery windows
Live broadcasts have no retry mechanism - if your stream fails during the winning goal or breaking news, millions of viewers instantly switch to competitors. Millisecond delays compound into viewer abandonment and revenue loss.
FEATURE TOOLKIT
Enterprise-grade features for broadcast performance
Advanced capabilities tailored to streaming platforms and large-scale broadcast events.
High-concurrency simulations
Reproduce millions of simultaneous viewers joining a stream, chat, or live event to validate your backend and CDN capacity.
Geo-distributed load generation
Launch tests from multiple regions to measure latency, buffering, and QoS for audiences worldwide.
Real-time performance insights
Track request latency, error rates, and throughput during tests with interactive dashboards. Detect bottlenecks before they impact your broadcast.
SLA enforcement & regression detection
Define thresholds (p95/p99 latency, error rate) and automatically block failing releases to ensure every update meets your streaming quality standards.
Observability integrations
Stream Gatling metrics to Datadog or Dynatrace to correlate load with infrastructure behavior in real time.
CI/CD integration
Automate performance checks in your release pipelines to validate that new features or CDN changes don’t break under peak traffic.
“Gatling has been a game-changer for our performance testing. The ability to simulate real-world loads and automatically test our platform’s response to high traffic has ensured that we maintain top performance, even as our business grows.”
Pierre Pommerel,
Solution Architect
“Gatling has become an integral part of our CI/CD pipeline. We run daily load tests, ensuring every change is stress-tested before it reaches production.”
Thomas Onken,
Software Developer
“We can track our performance over time and allow our development teams to automate the scenarios and runs. Gatling enabled us to automate the performance impact assessment of new feature delivery continuously and before releases.”
Simon Vos,
Technology Director
“In order to make sure interdiscount.ch was ready for Black Friday, we opted for Gatling Enterprise as our performance testing solution. The live dashboards are a real benefit as they let us see exactly when the website is slowing down during a performance test.”
Joel Rittener
Senior Application Manager
Ready to test
your streaming platform
at scale?
Ensure your broadcasts perform flawlessly when millions of viewers tune in.
Performance across all industries
Whatever your industry, Gatling helps you simulate real-world traffic at scale, ensuring your apps perform flawlessly when it matters most.
