thugsflooder
A single-binary load generator for authorised lab exercises — sustained UDP/TCP/HTTP floods and traffic replay, built so a blue team and SOC find out whether they actually notice.
A CLI/TUI that floods an authorised lab with sustained, high-volume synthetic traffic — UDP, TCP and HTTP junk from configurable worker pools, plus replay of prior captures from a JSON-lines recording format with no libpcap dependency. The safety rails are the point rather than an afterthought: a strict allowlist stops anything being sent outside explicitly configured targets, every attempt is written to a mandatory append-only audit log, a global token-bucket limiter caps the rate, and the tool does nothing but print help and a legal notice until it is run with --i-understand-the-risk. A live dashboard graphs bandwidth and status as it runs, with a headless mode for scripted use. Go, MIT licensed, Linux amd64/i386/armhf/arm64.