Dstat monitoring vs Load testing — Dstat comparison
Dstat monitoring and load testing overlap but answer different questions.
Dstat monitoring
- Observes live traffic and protection effectiveness.
- Breaks down allowed / bypass / blocked.
- Focused on how defenses respond.
Load testing
- Measures capacity and latency under load.
- Focused on application performance limits.
- Usually run against your own staging.
Takeaway
Use load testing to find capacity limits, and Dstat to verify that protections actually filter hostile traffic.