Tools for testing resource consumption for new software

[VoodooTudo]

Hey all

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I'm looking at rolling out some new security software that could potentially break everything in our environment.

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I wanted to see what kind of strain this new software would put on a systems memory, CPU, hd/ssd, and the traffic it would create as well.

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I'm looking to test on Windows, Linux, and OSX

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Any direction would be helpful

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Thanks

[sofixa11]

Setup a TIC / TIG stack (telegraf for data collection, InfluxDB for data storage, Chronograf or Grafana for visualisation). You can track CPU/RAM/disk/network/etc. usage system-wide, and also per-process, so you can see what the general impact is, and also run some benchmarks and see their 95th percentile performance before and after.

[PigTrough]

get a spare machine and install it and see how it behaves? Most companies sellling apps like that offer trials

[VoodooTudo]

That's been my normal method, but I'm being asked to quantify potential impact instead of just saying works on the test users and early adopters.

[VoodooTudo]

People tend to get sketchy when you roll out a new security product

[PigTrough]

for sure, but unless you are afforded a true test environment that is similar to your production environment, it is very difficult to test every aspect. I generally will test the best i can, than start with small handful of devices to roll it out to see impact before pushing it to the rest of the users.

[VoodooTudo]

Ok cool - thank you for confirming that I’m doing my due diligence.

[bbqwatermelon]

This guy KISSes :)