Service stress testing

Feature comparison

EAS offers two stress testing types: LLM service and general-purpose service.

Item	LLM service stress testing	General-purpose service stress testing
Use cases	Optimized for large language models to evaluate response speed and token generation performance.	Suitable for all HTTP/HTTPS-based services.
Creation method	PAI console only	PAI console: Supports `auto` mode only. EASCMD client: Supports `auto`, `scan`, and `manual` modes.
Key metrics	Includes all general-purpose metrics plus LLM-specific metrics: time to first token (TTFT), time per output token (TPOT), and tokens per second (TPS).	Includes metrics such as queries per second (QPS) and response time (RT).

Prerequisites

Deployed and available EAS service
- At least one EAS online service deployed in the destination region and workspace.
- Service status is Running and can be invoked.
Requirements for LLM service stress testing
- Service uses an OpenAI API-compatible inference engine, such as vLLM, SGLang, LMDeploy, or BladeLLM.
- Service exposes the /v1/completions or /v1/chat/completions endpoint.
- Stress testing data includes the "stream": true field to enable streaming requests for collecting token-related metrics such as TTFT and TPOT.

Quick start

This example stress-tests a Qwen3-8B LLM service using both LLM-specific and general-purpose scenarios. To deploy the model, see Deploy large language models.

Note

This is a quick start guide. Do not perform general-purpose stress testing on LLM services in production.

Step 1: Create a stress testing task

Log on to the PAI console and select the destination region at the top of the page.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Elastic Algorithm Service (EAS), select the target workspace, and go to the EAS page.
Go to the Benchmark Task tab and click Create Stress Testing Task.

Configure the following parameters and keep defaults for the rest. Full parameter references: LLM configuration details and General-purpose scenario configuration details.

LLM service stress testing

Parameter		Description
Basic Information	Service	Select the service to test and choose LLM Service.
	Service Endpoint	Select `Chat`.
	Stress Testing URL	Auto-populated after you select a service interface.
	Model ID	The model ID from ModelScope or Hugging Face. Enter `Qwen/Qwen3-8B`.
Stress Testing Configurations	Data Type	Select Public Dataset.
	Dataset	ShareGPT.
	Test Mode	Select Fixed Concurrency Test.
	Number of Request Samples	200.

General-purpose service stress testing

Note

The stress testing console has a fixed request timeout of 20 seconds. If the stress testing report shows a 512 return code, this indicates a request timeout. The EAS stress testing console does not support custom timeout settings.

Parameter		Description
Basic Information	Service	The service to test.
Basic Information	Stress Testing URL	Service invocation URL. Provide the full interface path, such as `/api/predict/<service_name>/v1/chat/comletions`.
Stress Testing Configurations	Data Source	Select Single Data Entry.
Stress Testing Configurations	Single Data Entry	Run `echo -n '{"model": "Qwen3-8B", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}], "max_tokens": 1024}' \| base64` to get the Base64 encoding: `eyJtb2RlbCI6ICJRd2VuMy04QiIsICJtZXNzYWdlcyI6IFt7InJvbGUiOiAidXNlciIsICJjb250ZW50IjogIkhlbGxvISJ9XSwgIm1heF90b2tlbnMiOiAxMDI0fQ==`

Step 2: View stress testing details

View real-time monitoring data: On the Benchmark Task tab, click a Running task name to open the real-time dashboard. Charts include Real-time response time (TP50/TP90/TP99/TP100/AVG), Real-time return codes, Real-time traffic (RECEIVE/SEND), and Real-time queries per second (QPS).
View the stress testing report. When task Status is Completed, click the task name to view the stress testing report.

The report includes Basic Information, Stress Testing Configurations, Test Result, and Test Monitoring. Metric definitions: Stress testing task monitoring metrics.

Step 3: Manage stress testing tasks

Manage stress testing tasks in the console

On the Benchmark Task tab, view the list of created tasks and perform operations such as Enable, Clone, Copy Report, and Delete.

Manage stress testing tasks using the EASCMD client

View the list of stress testing tasks

Use the bench list command to view the list of stress testing tasks created by the current user. The following example shows the command format for Windows 64-bit.

eascmdwin64.exe bench ls

The following is a sample output.

[RequestId]: 7F953F8E-8897-5785-808A-CA648302****
+-------------------------+--------------------------+-------------+----------------+---------+---------------------+
|        TASKNAME         |          TASKID          |   REGION    | AVAILABLEAGENT | STATUS  |     CREATETIME      |
+-------------------------+--------------------------+-------------+----------------+---------+---------------------+
| benchmark-***-test-**** | eas-b-ql470xog6qeh25**** | cn-shanghai |              0 | Stopped | 2022-06-17 17:58:01 |
| benchmark-***-test-**** | eas-b-bdnzvwq0z0h3xq**** | cn-shanghai |              2 | Running | 2022-06-20 12:18:54 |
+-------------------------+--------------------------+-------------+----------------+---------+---------------------+

View stress testing task details

Use the bench desc command to view the details of a specific stress testing task. The following example shows the command format for Windows 64-bit.

eascmdwin64.exe bench desc [benchmark_task_name]

Replace [benchmark_task_name] with the name of the stress testing task.

The following is a sample output.

+----------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|     TaskName   | benchmark-***-test-b514                                                      |
|     TaskId     | eas-b-bdnzvwq0z0h3xq****                                                     |
|    ServiceName | xgb_test                                                                     |
|         Region | cn-shanghai                                                                  |
|   DesiredAgent | 2                                                                            |
| AvailableAgent | 2                                                                            |
|         Status | Running                                                                      |
|        Message | Benchmark task is running                                                    |
|     CreateTime | 2021-10-20 12:38:35                                                          |
|     UpdateTime | 2021-10-20 12:38:45                                                          |
|         Config | {                                                                            |
|                |   "base": {                                                                  |
|                |     "agentCount": 2,                                                         |
|                |     "concurrency": 40,                                                       |
|                |     "duration": 1200,                                                        |
|                |     "requestCount":                                                          |
|                | 922337203685477****,                                                         |
|                |   },                                                                         |
|                |  ...                                                                         |
|                | }                                                                            |
+----------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Enable real-time visualization for a stress testing task
Use the bench visualize command to enable real-time visualization for a stress testing task. After this command is run, a real-time monitoring page provided by a web server is started at 127.0.0.1. The following example shows the command format for Windows 64-bit.
```
eascmdwin64.exe bench visualize [benchmark_task_name]
```
Replace [benchmark_task_name] with the name of the stress testing task.

The following is a sample output.
```
[OK] Click the link http://127.0.0.1:18734/eas-benchmark/statsview to observe realtime visualization details, you can turn it off with CTRL+C.
Turning off will not interrupt the benchmark test task, and you can reopen it by the visualize command:
eascmd -c [config_file] bench visualize benchmark-xgb-test-b514
```
Open the link http://127.0.0.1:18734/eas-benchmark/statsview in a browser to view the real-time data.
Obtain the stress testing report
When the stress testing task status is Stopped, the task is complete. The stress testing report is saved to OSS. You can use the bench report command to retrieve the report URL. The following example shows the command format for Windows 64-bit.
```
eascmdwin64.exe  bench report [benchmark_task_name]
```
Replace [benchmark_task_name] with the name of the stress testing task.

The following is a sample output.
```
[OK] Benchmark task benchmark-demo-test-c7eb report url: http://eas-benchmark.oss-cn-chengdu.aliyuncs.com/summary/benchmark-demo-test-c7eb-10004.html
```
Open the link after url in a browser to view the stress testing report, as shown in the following figure.

Dynamically modify the number of client replicas and concurrency

When the stress testing mode is manual, you must use the bench update command to dynamically modify the number of client replicas and concurrency. The following example shows the command format for Windows 64-bit.

eascmdwin64.exe bench update [benchmark_task_name] -Doptional.concurrency=<attr_value> -Doptional.agentCount=<attr_value>

The <attr_value> is the specific value. The following is a sample command:

eascmdwin64.exe bench update benchmark-demo-b99c -Doptional.concurrency=2 -Doptional.agentCount=1

The following is a sample output.

[RequestId]: 9920C672-4D41-5CC4-8EC0-C690F76EB2BA
[OK] Running [TaskName: benchmark-demo-b99c, DesiredAgent:1, AvailableAgent: 1, Message: Benchmark task is Updating]
[OK] Benchmark task benchmark-demo-b99c was updated successfully

Stop a stress testing task
Use the bench stop command to stop a running stress testing task. The following example shows the command format for Windows 64-bit.
```
eascmdwin64.exe bench stop [benchmark_task_name]
```
Replace [benchmark_task_name] with the name of the stress testing task.

The following is a sample output.
```
Are you sure to stop the benchmark task [benchmark-***-test-b514] in [cn-shanghai]? [Y/n]
[OK] Task [benchmark-***-test-b514] is stopping
[OK] [Agnet: 0/1]: Benchmark task is Running
[OK] [Agnet: 0/1]: Benchmark task is Stopped
[OK] Benchmark task is stopped
```
If the real-time visualization feature is running when you stop the task, the system outputs the stress testing report to the terminal where the visualization command was run. You can also use the bench report command to obtain a more detailed HTML report with graphs.

Start a stress testing task

Use the bench start command to start a stopped stress testing task. The following example shows the command format for Windows 64-bit.

eascmdwin64.exe bench start [benchmark_task_name]

Note

The difference between this command and the bench create command is that when you restart a stress testing task with this command, a new round of stress testing starts based on the last updated configuration of the task.

Replace [benchmark_task_name] with the name of the stress testing task.

The following is an example of system output.

Are you sure to start the benchmark task [benchmark-***-test-b514] in [cn-shanghai]? [Y/n]
[OK] Task [benchmark-***-test-b514] is starting
[OK] [Agnet: 0/1]: Succeed to start benchmark master
[OK] [Agnet: 1/1]: Benchmark task is Running
[OK] Benchmark task is Running
[OK] Click the link http://127.0.0.1:18947/eas-benchmark/statsview to observe realtime visualization details, you can turn it off with CTRL+C.
Turning off will not interrupt the benchmark test task, and you can reopen it by the visualize command:
eascmd -c [config_file] bench visualize benchmark-xgb-test-b514

Delete a stress testing task

After a stress testing task is complete, the VPC controller retains the task record based on its end status. The retention rules are described in the following table.

End status	Retention period
Stopped	48 hours.
CreateFailed, UpdateFailed, Terminated, or Error	10 minutes.

The system automatically deletes the stress testing task after the retention period.

You can also use the bench delete command to manually delete a stress testing task. The command format is as follows.

eascmdwin64.exe bench delete [benchmark_task_name]

Replace [benchmark_task_name] with the name of the stress testing task.

The following is a sample output.

Are you sure to delete the benchmark task [benchmark-***-test-b514] in [cn-shanghai]? [Y/n]
[OK] Benchmark task benchmark-***-test-b514 is Deleting
[OK] Benchmark task was deleted successfully

LLM configuration details

Basic information

Parameter	Description
Service	Select the service to test and choose LLM Service.
Service Endpoint	Only these two OpenAI interfaces are supported: Completions: single-turn completion. Request interface is `/v1/completions`. Chat: multi-turn conversation. Request interface is `/v1/chat/completions`.
Stress Testing URL	Auto-populated after you select a service interface.
Model ID	Required. The model ID from ModelScope or Hugging Face, used to load the correct tokenizer for token counting. On ModelScope, the model ID is the path under the model name (for example, `Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct`).
Model Name	Optional. Overrides the model ID in the request body. If empty, the model ID is used.

Select a data type

Data Type	Description
Public Dataset	Use the public ShareGPT dataset for stress testing. Dataset: Only ShareGPT is supported. Output Length: Controls generated text length. If left empty, output is not truncated. Configure output length to test LLM service stability and performance under different loads.
Custom Dataset	Configure a custom dataset based on your specific scenario: Important Request data for LLM stress testing must include the `"stream": true` parameter to construct streaming requests for collecting token-related metrics such as TTFT and TPOT. Data Source: Upload a custom data file for stress testing from these sources: Single Data Entry: Enter a single stress testing request data entry in the Single Data text box. Format must be a Base64-encoded string. Data Address: Enter the HTTP path of the test data source in the Data Address text box. Single files or ZIP files are supported. ZIP files are automatically decompressed after download. OSS Object: Obtain the stress testing file by configuring an Object Storage Service (OSS) path. Upload Local File: Follow the console instructions to upload a local stress testing file to an OSS path and obtain the file from OSS. Split File Data by Line: Available when Data Source is set to Data Address, OSS File, or Upload from Local. If enabled, the uploaded stress testing file is split by line, and each line is used as a data entry. Otherwise, the entire file content is used as a single data entry. Note For an example of stress testing file configuration, see benchmark_demo.json. Each data entry in the file is an actual user request in JSON format. First use the online debugging feature to confirm that single request data entry format is correct.
Simulation Data	Data Generation Mode: Only Uniform Distribution is supported. Input Tokens: The length range of input tokens. The minimum value is 10, and the maximum is 10000. The default value is 1024. Output Tokens: The length range of output tokens. The minimum value is 10, and the maximum is 10000. The default value is 128.

Select a test mode

Three test modes are supported:

Fixed Concurrency Test: Sets a fixed number of concurrent users. Suitable for testing system performance under a specific concurrency level.
Fixed Request Rate Test: Sets a fixed request rate. Suitable for testing system performance at a specific request rate.
Extreme Throughput Test: Sends all requests simultaneously to determine the maximum request rate (QPS) that the inference service can handle. Suitable for testing system limits.

In Fixed Concurrency Test and Fixed Request Rate Test modes, you can enable Continuous Test.

If you enable Continuous Test, the task runs until the stress testing duration ends, regardless of the Number of Request Samples.
If you disable Continuous Test, the task stops after completing the specified Number of Request Samples or reaching the Maximum Duration (s).

Parameter settings for different test modes are as follows:

Test Mode	Parameter Settings
Fixed Concurrency Test	Concurrency: Simulates the number of concurrent users. Value range: [1, 200]. Maximum Duration (s): Duration of the stress test in seconds. Default: 300. Minimum: 30. Number of Request Samples: Not required when Continuous Test is enabled. Represents the number of requests sent during the test. Value range: [100, 1000].
Fixed Request Rate Test	Sets a fixed request rate for testing system performance. Configure the following parameters: Request Rate: Number of requests sent per second. Maximum Concurrency: Number of concurrent users to simulate. Maximum Duration (s): The duration of the stress test in seconds. The default value is 300, and the minimum is 30. Number of Request Samples: This does not need to be set when Continuous Test is enabled. It represents the number of requests sent during the test. The value must be in the range of [100, 1000].
Extreme Throughput Test	Maximum Duration (s): The duration of the stress test in seconds. The default value is 300, and the minimum is 30. Number of Request Samples: The number of requests sent during the test. The value must be in the range of [100, 1000].

More configurations

Parameter	Description
HTTP Header	A key-value pair. For example: Pass authentication information: `Authorization: EAS_TOKEN` Set the data format of the request body: `Content-Type: application/json`
Burstiness	Default value: 1. Valid range: 0.1 to 200, with granularity of 0.1. Controls request timing distribution; only takes effect in fixed request rate mode. Default 1 (Poisson distribution). Other values use Gamma distribution: smaller = more bursty, larger = more uniform.
Random Seed	Default value: 0. Integer data type. Value range: 0-4294967295 (2**32-1).
Ignore EOS	Enabling Ignore EOS causes the model to ignore the End-of-Sequence (EOS) token when generating text, forcing generation until the preset maximum generation length is reached.

General-purpose scenario configuration details

Console parameters

Parameter		Description
Basic Information	Service	Name of the service to test.
Basic Information	Stress Testing URL	Service invocation URL.
Stress Testing Configurations	Data Source	Configure stress testing data using Single Data Entry, Data Address, OSS Object, or Upload Local File. Stress testing data format: Depends on the model definition and processor implementation. Note Single Data must be a Base64-encoded string. For unstructured data such as voice, images, or text, directly upload the file as the stress testing request data. For structured data such as TFRequest, construct the request using the EAS SDK (Model service warm-up) and upload the binary output as a file. Stress testing file: Single files or ZIP files are supported. ZIP files are automatically decompressed after download. File type: Supports formats such as `.txt`, `.jpg`, `.bin`, and `.zip`, depending on the service's business requirements.
	Split File Data by Line	Available when Data Source is set to Data Address, OSS Object, or Upload Local File. If enabled, the uploaded stress testing file is split by line, and each line is used as a data entry. Otherwise, the entire file content is used as a single data entry.
	Maximum Duration (s)	Duration of the stress test in seconds. Default: 300 seconds.
	Maximum QPS	Maximum allowed QPS (requests per second). Default: 10000.
	Maximum Response Time (ms)	Maximum allowed response time (RT) in milliseconds. If this threshold is exceeded, QPS is automatically adjusted until real-time RT meets expectations.
	HTTP Header	Request header configuration in key-value pairs. For example: Pass authentication information: `Authorization: EAS_TOKEN` Set the data format of the request body: `Content-Type: application/json`

Create using the EASCMD client

Use bench create to create a stress testing task. For client setup, see Download and authenticate the client. After creation, use the returned URL to view real-time monitoring. Windows 64-bit example:

eascmdwin64.exe bench create [bench_desc_json]

The bench_desc_json is a JSON configuration file. Examples below; full parameter reference: JSON parameter descriptions.

Single stress test

{
    "service": {
        "serviceName": "xgb_test"
    },
    "data": {
        "content": "W1sxLDAsMCwwLDEsMSwwLDEsMCwxLDEsMCwwLDEsMCwxLDAsMSwwLDAsMSwxLDEsMCwxLDEsMCwwLDAsMSwxLDEsMCwxLDEsMSwxLDAsMSwxLDEsMCwxLDAsMCwwLDEsMSwwLDAsMCwxLDAsMSwwLDEsMCwwLDEsMCwwLDEsMCwxLDAsMCwxLDAsMCwwLDAsMSwwLDEsMCwxLDAsMCwxLDEsMSwwLDAsMSwwLDAsMCwwLDEsMSwxLDAsMSwxLDAsMCwxLDAsMSwwLDEsMSwxLDEsMCwxLDAsMCwxLDEsMSwxLDAsMCwwLDEsMSwwXV0K"
    }
}

OSS file test

Use path to specify multiple OSS files as stress testing data.

To configure multiple stress testing data entries in a batch, you can package multiple request data files into a ZIP package and set the path to oss://XX.zip.

{
    "service": {
        "serviceName": "xgb_test"
    },
    "data": {
        "path": "oss://examplebucket/test1.bin,oss://examplebucket/test2.bin"
    }
}

The following is a sample output.

[RequestId]: DE240637-4976-59AF-A28C-BAA55C0A****
[OK] Task [benchmark-xgb-test-b514] is creating
[OK] [Agnet: 0/1]: Succeed to start benchmark master
[OK] [Agnet: 0/1]: Succeed to start benchmark master
[OK] [Agnet: 1/1]: Benchmark task is Running
[OK] Benchmark task is Running
[OK] Click the link http://127.0.0.1:18222/eas-benchmark/statsview to observe realtime visualization details, you can turn it off with CTRL+C.
Turning off will not interrupt the benchmark test task, and you can reopen it by the visualize command:
eascmd -c [config_file] bench visualize benchmark-xgb-test-b514

Stress testing modes

General-purpose service stress testing supports the following three modes:

auto mode: The eas-benchmark VPC controller automatically creates Agent Workers and uses an optimization algorithm to find the service's maximum capacity.
scan mode: Dynamically increases pressure from a starting QPS (minQPS) to maximum QPS (maxQPS) at a specified interval (adjustInterval) and step (qpsGrowthDelta). Stops when maxRT, maxQPS, or error tolerance (faultTolerate) is reached.
manual mode: Uses a fixed number of stress testing agents and concurrency per agent. Both can be adjusted dynamically during the test.

The console only supports auto mode. The EASCMD client supports auto, scan, and manual modes.

You can add the mode parameter in the optional section of the JSON configuration file to specify the stress testing mode. The following are configuration examples.

auto mode

In auto mode, you only need to specify the service name and stress testing data in the configuration file. You can use the default values for other parameters. The following is a configuration example.

{
    "service": {
        "serviceName": "demo"
    },
    "data": {
        "path": "https://examplebucket.oss-cn-chengdu.aliyuncs.com/data/warmup.tf.bin"
    },
    "optional": {
        "maxQPS": 1000,
        "duration": 300
     }
}

scan mode

{
    "service": {
        "serviceName": "demo"
    },
    "data": {
        "content": "aGVsbG8K"
    },
    "optional": {
        "mode": "scan",
        "maxQPS": 1000,
        "minQPS": 500,
        "qpsGrowthDelta": 100,
        "adjustInterval": 30
    }
}

manual mode

{
    "service": {
        "serviceName": "demo"
    },
    "data": {
        "content": "aGVsbG8K"
    },
    "optional": {
        "mode": "manual",
        "agentCount": 1,
        "concurrency": 5
    }
}

JSON parameter descriptions

Item	Parameter	Required	Description
service	serviceName	Yes	The name of the service to be stress-tested.
data	content	No	A single stress testing request data entry as a Base64-encoded string. To specify multiple request data entries, use the path parameter.
	path	No	The path of the test data source. You can configure an HTTP path or an OSS path. You can specify multiple paths separated by commas (,). You can also package multiple test files into a .zip file for batch configuration. Note Save the stress testing data file in its original format. Do not perform Base64 encoding.
	multiLine	No	Specifies whether to split the test data by line. This is a Boolean value, and the default is false. If set to true, the downloaded data is parsed line by line.
http	headers	No	HTTP request header settings. This is a list. For example: `["Authorization:aaa", "Content-Type:text"]`.
http	timeout	No	The HTTP request timeout in milliseconds. The default is 20000.
optional	mode	No	The stress testing mode. Three modes are supported (Stress testing modes): auto (default): Automatic pressure mode. scan: Periodic pressure mode. manual: Manual pressure mode.
	duration	No	The stress testing duration in seconds. The default is 600, and the maximum is 1200.
	agentCount	No	The number of client replicas in manual mode. A higher number of replicas results in greater pressure. The default is 1.
	concurrency	No	Concurrent requests per client instance in manual mode. Default: 2. Increase concurrency first; if still insufficient, increase agent count.
	adjustInterval	No	The dynamic adjustment interval for automatic pressure in scan mode, in seconds. The default is 60.
	minQPS	No	The starting QPS value for automatic pressure in scan mode. The default is 100.
	maxQPS	No	The maximum allowed QPS in scan or auto mode.
	maxRT	No	The maximum RT (TP99) in scan or auto mode. If this threshold is exceeded, the QPS is automatically adjusted until the real-time RT meets expectations.
	qpsGrowthDelta	No	The amount by which QPS increases each time in scan mode. The default is 50.
	faultTolerate	No	Error tolerance (non-200 status codes) in scan or auto mode. For example, 0.01 means the error process triggers at 1% failure rate. Default: 0.001 (one in a thousand).
	faultAction	No	The behavior of the stress testing VPC controller when the request error rate exceeds the threshold set by faultTolerate in scan or auto mode. The following values are supported: stop: Maintains the current QPS and stops increasing the pressure. revise (default): Dynamically adjusts the QPS until the request error rate meets expectations.

Stress testing task monitoring metrics

LLM service-specific metrics

TTFT (Time To First Token)

Time from sending a request until receiving the first generated token.

TPOT (Time per Output Token)

Time interval between two consecutive generated tokens.

TPS (Tokens Per Second)

The number of tokens generated per second.

General metrics

Request per second distribution

Requests received by the service per second over time.

Response time distribution

Response count distribution within the selected time range.

Traffic distribution

Volume of request and response data between client and service over time.

Response time interval distribution

Percentage of responses falling into different latency intervals (ms).

Overall response time distribution

End-to-end request latency at different quantiles (ms).

Return status code distribution

Distribution of HTTP status codes returned by the service.

FAQ

Why do I get a 400 or 404 error during a single data test when a curl request works?

Symptom: When performing a one-click stress test on a large language model inference service deployed on EAS using a single data entry, all requests fail with an HTTP status code of 400 or 404. However, sending the same request manually with curl succeeds with a 200 status code.

Root cause:

404: The stress testing URL is incorrect. For example, it might contain an extra slash at the end (such as /test/), while the actual registered path for the service is /test, causing a routing mismatch.
400: The request body format is incorrect. A common mistake is not enclosing the JSON string in single quotes when generating the Base64 encoding for the request body (such as echo -n {"file_names": [...]} | base64). This causes the shell to parse the JSON incorrectly, resulting in an invalid JSON format that the service cannot parse.

Solution:

Ensure the stress testing URL path exactly matches the service's registered path. Remove any extra slashes at the end (use /test instead of /test/).
Before generating the Base64 encoding, enclose the entire JSON request body in single quotes. For example:
```
echo -n '{"file_names": ["xxx.pdf"]}' | base64
```

Next steps

Manage stress testing tasks through API: Stress testing tasks.
Invoke the stress-tested service: Overview of invocation methods.