What tools does the Load Balancer Tester use?

The skill utilizes the load-balancer-tester plugin and leverages internal tools like Bash, Grep, and Glob to analyze system behavior and logs.

What load balancer features can this skill test?

This skill is designed to test four primary areas: traffic distribution across servers, failover scenarios during outages, sticky session persistence, and the effectiveness of health checks.

Can I use this skill to simulate a server crash?

Yes, the skill can simulate a backend server becoming unavailable to verify that the load balancer correctly redirects traffic to the remaining healthy servers.

Does this skill provide a summary of the test results?

Yes, after executing the test suite via the load-balancer-tester plugin, Claude provides a detailed summary highlighting any issues or areas for improvement.

Load Balancer Tester

Name: Load Balancer Tester
Author: intent-solutions-io

byintent-solutions-io

Security & Testing

Validates and stress-tests load balancer configurations, including traffic distribution, failover mechanisms, and session persistence.

About

This skill provides Claude with specialized capabilities to automate the testing of load balancing infrastructure, ensuring high availability and optimal performance for backend services. It allows developers and DevOps engineers to simulate server failures, verify that traffic is evenly distributed across nodes, and confirm that health checks correctly identify and remove unhealthy instances from the rotation. By using the load-balancer-tester plugin, Claude can execute comprehensive test suites that validate complex networking behaviors like sticky sessions and seamless failover transitions, providing actionable insights into system reliability.

Key Features

Real-time failover scenario simulation
Comprehensive load balancer performance reporting
Sticky session and persistence verification
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Automated traffic distribution validation
Health check functionality assessment

Use Cases

Debugging session persistence issues in load-balanced environments
Verifying even traffic distribution across new backend clusters
Simulating node failures to test high-availability infrastructure

About

Key Features

Real-time failover scenario simulation
Comprehensive load balancer performance reporting
Sticky session and persistence verification
0 GitHub stars
Automated traffic distribution validation
Health check functionality assessment

Use Cases

Debugging session persistence issues in load-balanced environments
Verifying even traffic distribution across new backend clusters
Simulating node failures to test high-availability infrastructure