Test appwrite performance

Hi,
I'm running appwrite on my vps.. I just want to know the performance and limits of appwrite on my vps.
Is there anyway to check the performance?

I'm general, you would perform a load test with something like k6

You can run a few tests type to get a grasp of your Appwrite performance.

Tests

Run your tests against some endpoint that will have to do some Appwrite logic.
The best would be

• POST creating document - /v1/databases/{databaseId}/collections/{collectionId}/documents
• GET getting documents - /v1/databases/{databaseId}/collections/{collectionId}/documents
• POST executing a function /v1/functions/{functionId}/executions
  Make sure to turn off abuse protection, check _APP_OPTIONS_ABUSE in https://appwrite.io/docs/environment-variables#general

Load test
First as Steven suggested run a "load test" in which you'll test the ability of your server to response to as much connections possible,
You can use oha/k6s for that one

Stress test
Second, now you can run a "Stress test" in which you're testing the ability of your Appwrite server to remain responsible over time!
Because you're testing the server ability to server N users it will be best to add sleep to your k6s testing suite, like so:

import http from 'k6/http';
import {sleep} from 'k6';

export default () => {
  const data = {
    "data": JSON.stringify({data:'someData'})
  }

  // Executing a function.
  const urlRes = http.post('https://you.appwrite.cloud/v1/functions/{functionId}/executions',JSON.stringify(data),{
    headers: { 
      'Content-Type': 'application/json' 
      'X-Appwrite-Project': '5df5acd0d48c2' 
      },
  });
  

  sleep(1);
}

Without adding the sleep the stress tests become load testing and won't give close-to-the-truth results.

Make sure to run all those tests without any DNS in the middle like Cloudflare (you can avoid that by using custom hosts file in the local machine)

Links:

• oha - https://github.com/hatoo/oha
• k6s - https://k6.io/open-source/

I guess I need to use api keys so that I won't be rate limited by appwrite

Yes
Or you can disable the abuse which remove the rate limiter

But there are no limitation for api keys right?

No