wrk is a very useful utility for running basic or complex (via scripting interface). However it does not provide request-level data, but rather overall stats (mean, avg, etc.) that has been previously calculated within the performance plugin. wrk is a very useful utility for simulating higher levels of load on a single machine, which makes a great fit with many Jenkins setup(s)/build(s).

This will require some refactoring of the code, but overall I think it a good refactor should result in a more generalized codebase that can accept both request-level and aggregated results as input to parse.

The main concern is, wrk's output is not very standardized. So there may be concern of the format changing going forward. Not sure if the concern is much more than any other tool changing it's format, but it is a concern nonetheless.

Update

wrk website: https://github.com/wg/wrk