Stress test on Cloudflare?

[leokattah]

I have a website on Cloudflare and I currently have a free account. Is it possible to stress test on Cloudflare?

[fritex]

@leokattah

Is it possible to stress test on Cloudflare?

May I ask in which terms? May I ask would this be a DDoS test attack simulation or rather “normal traffic” generated by some tool like ab (ApacheBench) etc.?:

Like sending HTTP(S) traffic to your website while using proxy mode to “stress test” while your website is being hit or under some specific load?

If so, may I share a post from my colleague @M4rt1n:

Website Stress Testing

Cloudflare shields against such services as they would normally detect as DDoS, as @fritex mentioned there are guidelines you have to follow if you still want to test a “DDoS” against your site when you are using Cloudflare and you don’t want the requests immediately to be blocked. But Cloudflare AFAIK does not have any service to test any load on your origin. There are other services like: https://loader.io/ But if you are already using Cloudflare, Cloudflare will immediately catch up and blo…

Or rather DDoS as a “stress test”?
If this, then kindly see the requirements from the link below:

• https://developers.cloudflare.com/ddos-protection/reference/simulate-ddos-attack

Nevermind, I believe in both terms Cloudflare will handle it, but still only the question remains what do you have for a website and how well is it being optimized including the origin host/server

[leokattah]

Thank you all.