INCUS-BENCHMARK(1)

💅 INCUS-BENCHMARK(1) — the incus-benchmark manual, section 1, "User Commands" ✨

okay bestie, sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓 — this is the manual page for incus-benchmark, and it is literally the container lightervisor's benchmark tool. yes, the name is iconic, no we will not be explaining why. let's go 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

incus-benchmark — The container lightervisor — benchmark 🏁

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

💖 Description:

Benchmark performance of Incus.

This tool lets you benchmark various actions on a local Incus daemon. no cap.

So like, what's the vibe here? You can use it just to check how fast a given host is, to compare performance on different servers, or for performance tracking when doing changes to the codebase. it's giving "science but make it cute" 🧚

And the best part?? A CSV report can be produced to be consumed by graphing software. data slay 📊✨

🎀 Usage:

incus-benchmark [command]

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

the main character moments, fr fr:

# Spawn 20 containers in batches of 4
incus-benchmark launch --count 20 --parallel 4

# Create 50 Alpine containers in batches of 10
incus-benchmark init --count 50 --parallel 10 images:alpine/edge

# Delete all test containers using dynamic batch size
incus-benchmark delete

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👑 Available Commands 👑

• delete — Delete containers 💀
• help — Help about any command 🆘
• init — Create containers 🥚
• launch — Create and start containers 🚀
• start — Start containers ▶️
• stop — Stop containers ⏹️

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⭐ Flags ⭐

• -h, --help — Print help 🙋
• -P, --parallel — Number of threads to use (default -1) 🧵
• --project string — Project to use (default "default") 📁
• --report-file — Path to the CSV report file 📄
• --report-label — Label for the new entry in the report [default=ACTION] 🏷️
• --version — Print version number 🔢

Use incus-benchmark [command] --help for more information about a command. seriously bestie, it's right there 🙈

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💅 this was incus-benchmark 6.23, written down in April 2026, and it lives in section 1 of the manual alongside all the other User Commands — ty for coming to my ted talk, go benchmark something and eat 🔥👑💜