STREAM PUBLISHING AND DISTRIBUTION CAPACITY TESTING

Some embodiments dynamically test capacity of a streaming server under test (SUT). The dynamic testing involves a test server generating different test scenarios. Each test scenario specifies a mix of different streaming protocols, content streams, and content stream upload to download ratio. The test server tests the SUT with a gradually increasing traffic load from each test scenario while monitoring SUT performance under each load. The test server records each load from each test scenario under which the SUT becomes saturated. The test server produces a grid mapping the observed SUT saturation points to the test loads that caused them. The grid is used when the SUT is deployed to a production environment to determine if SUT saturation is imminent based on current traffic patterns being serviced by the SUT in the production environment. If so, a remedial action is dynamically performed to prevent the saturation from occurring.