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This pull request adds the report tool and modifies the loadtime libraries to better support its use.

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Co-authored-by: William Banfield <wbanfield@gmail.com>
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# loadtime
This directory contains the `loadtime` tools, a set of tools for generating
transaction load against Tendermint and measuring their resulting latency.
`loadtime` generates transactions that contain the timestamp of when they were
generated as well as additional metadata to track the variables used when
generating the load.
## Building the tool set
The `Makefile` contains a target for building the `loadtime` tools.
The following command will build the tool and place the resulting binaries in `./build/`.
```bash
make build
```
## `load`
The `load` binary is built when `make build` is invoked. The `load` tool generates
transactions and broadcasts them to Tendermint.
`load` leverages the [tm-load-test](https://github.com/informalsystems/tm-load-test)
framework. As a result, all flags and options specified on the `tm-load-test` apply to
`load`.
Below is a basic invocation for generating load against a Tendermint websocket running
on `localhost:25567`
```bash
./build/load \
-c 1 -T 10 -r 1000 -s 1024 \
--broadcast-tx-method sync \
--endpoints ws://localhost:26657/websocket
```
## `report`
The `report` binary is built when `make build` is invoked. The `report` tool
reads all of the blocks from the specified blockstore database and calculates
transaction latency metrics. `report` reads transactions generated by `load`
and uses the difference between the timestamp contained in the transaction and
the timestamp of the block the transaction was executed in to determine transaction latency.
`report` outputs a set of metrics calculated on the list of latencies, including
minimum, maximum, and average latency as well as the standard deviation.
Below is a basic invocation of the report tool with a data directory under `/home/test/.tendermint/data/`
where the data was saved in a `goleveldb` database.
```bash
./build/report --database-type goleveldb --data-dir ~/.tendermint/data
```
The `report` tool also supports outputting the raw data as `csv`. This can be
useful if you want to use a more powerful tool to aggregate and analyze the data.
Below is an invocation of the report tool that outputs the data to a `csv` file
in `out.csv`
```bash
./build/report --database-type goleveldb --data-dir ~/.tendermint/data --csv out.csv
```