Administration

Use Warp to evaluate hardware, plan capacity, and verify that your storage infrastructure meets your requirements.

What administrators can do with Warp

Evaluate storage performance

Type of evaluation	What to test	How to interpret
Test infrastructure capabilities before deployment	Measure throughput, latency, and consistency using different workload patterns	Verify hardware meets requirements
Determine load range	Use mixed workload tests with gradually increasing concurrency	Identify system limits before performance degrades
Test new hardware	Performance comparison can identify performance regressions or improvements	Check that new software or hardware changes meet requirements before deployment
Verify SLA compliance	Stability tests reveal performance consistency over extended periods	Check that applications have adequate response times
Isolate performance issues	Run focused tests on upload, download, or metadata operations to identify problem areas	Adjusting concurrency and object sizes can help you understand your system under various conditions

Get started

Quick performance check

Run a basic mixed workload test to get initial performance measurements.

The following command tests combined upload, download, and metadata performance for 10 minutes.

warp mixed --duration 10m --host s3.example.com --access-key YOUR_ACCESS_KEY --secret-key YOUR_SECRET_KEY

Comprehensive evaluation

For thorough evaluation, run multiple test types to understand different aspects of performance. Review test output to understand throughput and latency for each operation type.

For exact metric definitions, units, and notation used in command examples, see the Reference page sections on throughput, latency, and duration notation.

The following commands separately test PUT, GET, and MIXED workloads.

# Test upload performance
warp put --host s3.example.com --access-key YOUR_ACCESS_KEY --secret-key YOUR_SECRET_KEY

# Test download performance
warp get --host s3.example.com --access-key YOUR_ACCESS_KEY --secret-key YOUR_SECRET_KEY

# Test performance under a blend of activities
# mixed tests are best run after having a base understanding of your system's performance
warp mixed --host s3.example.com --access-key YOUR_ACCESS_KEY --secret-key YOUR_SECRET_KEY

Best practices

Pre-qualify the hardware

Use tools like mc support perf to check that the hardware you are using is capable of the type of performance you want to see.
Start simple, then scale

Run a mixed workload test for 10-15 minutes to get initial results. Gradually increase test complexity and duration as you understand system behavior.
Match tests to your workload

Configure tests to reflect your actual application patterns. Review test configuration options to match your environment.
Run tests multiple times

Performance can vary between test runs due to cache effects, network conditions, and system load. Run each test at least three times and compare results.
Understand the results

Review understanding results to interpret throughput, latency, and percentile metrics. Focus on metrics that matter for your specific use case rather than trying to optimize everything.
Document your testing

Keep test data files for performance comparison over time. The warp analyze command retrieves results from a test. Use warp cmp to compare results between two tests of the same type.

Learn more

Topic	Description
Core concepts	Understand test types, configuration, and results
Test types	Learn about available tests and when to use each
Common tests	Start with frequently-used tests
Specialized tests	Explore advanced testing scenarios