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Capacity Planning · /// Throughput

Plan capacity that survives launch day.

LoadGen turns capacity planning from spreadsheet guesswork into a measured engineering practice — scenarios, baselines, and live breakpoint detection on every platform you ship.

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Active Test · Storefront-Spike-2026Q2

Live cockpit · phase timeline · breakpoint detection.

Target VU
1500
cap
Current VU
1247
+200 / s
Errors / s
18
sustained
p95
1820ms
breached
Phase timeline
12:34 → 12:46 UTC
Concurrency · last 12 min
peak 1247 VU
SLA · 1000 VU
Active phase · SPIKE
Virtual users1247
Ramp rate+200 / s
Errors / s18
p95 latency1820ms
Breakpoint detected

Threshold breached at 1247 VU · p95 1820ms · 18 err/s. Capacity ceiling identified — plan upgrade headroom before the next launch.

comparison overlay · last 5 runs
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The Problem

Spreadsheets fail under spike load.

The questions a release engineer needs to answer the night before launch don’t come from a Confluence page. They come from a stack that has already been pushed past its limit.

Capacity guesses kill release confidence.

A spreadsheet of last quarter’s peak doesn’t tell you what 1,500 concurrent users on a new release will actually do to your stack.

Stress tests in isolation miss real-traffic shape.

Linear ramps prove a stack can climb. They don’t prove it can absorb a spike, sustain a soak, or recover from a partial outage.

Last-minute breakage reaches production.

When capacity drift only surfaces during launch week, your only options are roll back or scale up under fire — both expensive.

How LoadGen solves this

Capture · Simulate · Analyze · Optimize.

Four motions, executed in parallel by the same engine — not a sequence of disconnected tools.

Capture

Import real traffic shapes from production telemetry. Build a baseline scenario in the editor — Idle, RampUp, Sustain, Spike.

Simulate

Replay the scenario at 1×, 2×, and 4× projected load. Phase-based execution, live cockpit, multi-agent virtual users.

Analyze

Overlay up to 5 runs in the comparison view. Drill from KPI summary into Moments, Errors, and per-step measurements.

Optimize

Identify the breakpoint, raise the SLA budget, schedule recurring baselines. Re-run on every release to catch drift early.

Live · Active Test

See the breakpoint as it happens.

The live cockpit shows phase-by-phase concurrency, error rate, and p95 latency in real time — the moment you cross the SLA budget, the stack tells you exactly which phase did it.

Phase timeline
Idle · RampUp · Sustain · Spike · RampDown — colored by status, animated by progress.
Concurrency curve
SLA threshold line; spike marker on breakpoint; full 12-min rolling window.
5-test overlay
Compare the active run against the last four baselines without leaving the cockpit.
Recurring baselines
Cron presets capture drift on every merge — no human in the loop.

Outcomes · before / after

Replace guesswork with measured headroom.

Drawn from the average improvement teams report after the first three release cycles on LoadGen.

Time to capacity sign-off

Before

14 days

After

2 hours

−94 %
Production breakages / launch

Before

3.2

After

0.4

−87 %
Headroom confidence at launch

Before

38 %

After

92 %

+54 pt
Engineers blocked / release

Before

6

After

1

−83 %

Capacity → Platform

Four features. One capacity practice.

Capacity planning isn’t a feature — it’s the way these four features compose. Click into any one to see the surface that supports it.

Platform routes
  • /config/scenariosScenario timeline
  • /config/workloadsWorkload versions
  • /testing/activeLive cockpit
  • /testing/resultsComparison overlay
  • /testing/schedulesCron baselines

Stop planning capacity in spreadsheets.

Run your first scenario this afternoon. Compare the next five releases against it. Ship the sixth without the launch-day adrenaline.

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