title: Optimizing Benchmarks parent: User Guide nav_order: 55 has_children: true

Optimizing Benchmarks

This section provides guidance for getting the most meaningful and reliable results from Apache Solr Orbit.

TopicDescription
Target throughputUnderstand how target-throughput affects latency measurements and how to set it correctly
Running distributed loadGenerate load from multiple machines to saturate large Solr clusters
Performance testing best practicesMethodology for repeatable, meaningful benchmark results
Randomizing queriesVary query parameters across iterations to simulate real-world cache behavior