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Growth · December 2, 2016

Crabby: a web page performance monitor using Selenium and Graphite

Crabby monitors your websites and APIs and reports metrics to a variety of storage backends (Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, InfluxDB, etc). It gives you insight into timings like TTFB, DNS resolution, TLS negotiation, server processing, and content delivery. It also supports chromedp for automated gathering of browser metrics like page render timings. It's very easy to configure and includes a Helm chart for deployment into K8S.

Crabby: a web page performance monitor using Selenium and Graphite launched on December 2, 2016 with 12 votes, #1,505 of 3,449 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

In plain words

Crabby is a web performance monitoring tool that measures page load times and detailed metrics like DNS resolution, TLS negotiation, and content delivery for websites and APIs. It supports multiple storage backends including Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, and InfluxDB, and can gather browser-level metrics using chromedp. The tool is designed for easy configuration and includes a Helm chart for Kubernetes deployment.

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A web page performance tester with support for Prometheus, InfluxDB, Graphite, and Datadog - chrissnell/crabby

crabby is a website performance tester that measures page load times and reports the measurements to a collection endpoint for processing, monitoring, and viewing. Crabby can collect and report these metrics: Crabby currently supports these metrics delivery backends. You can enable any combination of them simultaneously and Crabby will send metrics to all of them: simple uses Go's built-in net/http client to conduct HTTP requests. These requests measure server performance metrics including TLS negotiation time for HTTPS. This probe fetches the full response for a URL but will not fetch objects referenced by that page. The simple probe is appropriate for measuring app/API availability,…from github.com

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