diff --git a/.zuul.yaml b/.zuul.yaml
index 7762995e8..6002dcd69 100644
--- a/.zuul.yaml
+++ b/.zuul.yaml
@@ -92,4 +92,5 @@
     description: |
         A simple node on which to run placement with the barest of configs and
         make nested performance related tests against it.
+    timeout: 3600
     run: playbooks/nested-perfload.yaml
diff --git a/gate/perfload-nested-runner.sh b/gate/perfload-nested-runner.sh
index 75990e6de..6916ebc1b 100755
--- a/gate/perfload-nested-runner.sh
+++ b/gate/perfload-nested-runner.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash -x
 WORK_DIR=$1
 
-PLACEMENT_URL="http://localhost:8000"
+PLACEMENT_URL="http://127.0.0.1:8000"
 LOG=placement-perf.txt
 LOG_DEST=${WORK_DIR}/logs
 # The gabbit used to create one nested provider tree. It takes
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ ITERATIONS=1000
 # Number of times to write allocations and then time again.
 ALLOCATIONS_TO_WRITE=10
 
+# Apache Benchmark Concurrency
+AB_CONCURRENT=10
+# Apache Benchmark Total Requests
+AB_COUNT=500
+
 # The number of providers in each nested tree. This will need to
 # change whenever the resource provider topology created in $GABBIT
 # is changed.
@@ -39,6 +44,13 @@ function time_candidates {
     ) 2>&1 | tee -a $LOG
 }
 
+function ab_bench {
+    (
+        echo "#### Running apache benchmark"
+        ab -c $AB_CONCURRENT -n $AB_COUNT -H 'x-auth-token: admin' -H 'openstack-api-version: placement latest' "${PLACEMENT_URL}/allocation_candidates?${PLACEMENT_QUERY}"
+    ) 2>&1 | tee -a $LOG
+}
+
 function write_allocation {
     # Take the first allocation request and send it back as a well-formed allocation
     curl -s -H 'x-auth-token: admin' -H 'openstack-api-version: placement latest' "${PLACEMENT_URL}/allocation_candidates?${PLACEMENT_QUERY}&limit=5" \
@@ -80,6 +92,7 @@ function check_placement {
     # log a message.
     if [[ $rp_count -ge $TOTAL_PROVIDER_COUNT ]]; then
       load_candidates
+      ab_bench
     else
         (
             echo "Unable to create expected number of resource providers. Expected: ${COUNT}, Got: $rp_count"
diff --git a/gate/perfload-runner.sh b/gate/perfload-runner.sh
index c39565047..95a01d9e6 100755
--- a/gate/perfload-runner.sh
+++ b/gate/perfload-runner.sh
@@ -36,13 +36,18 @@ aggregates, or traits.
 AGGREGATE="14a5c8a3-5a99-4e8f-88be-00d85fcb1c17"
 TRAIT="HW_CPU_X86_AVX2"
 PLACEMENT_QUERY="resources=VCPU:1,DISK_GB:10,MEMORY_MB:256&member_of=${AGGREGATE}&required=${TRAIT}"
-PLACEMENT_URL="http://localhost:8000"
+PLACEMENT_URL="http://127.0.0.1:8000"
 
 
 LOG=placement-perf.txt
 LOG_DEST=${WORK_DIR}/logs
 COUNT=1000
 
+# Apache Benchmark Concurrency
+AB_CONCURRENT=10
+# Apache Benchmark Total Requests
+AB_COUNT=500
+
 trap "sudo cp -p $LOG $LOG_DEST" EXIT
 
 function time_candidates {
@@ -53,6 +58,13 @@ function time_candidates {
     ) 2>&1 | tee -a $LOG
 }
 
+function ab_bench {
+    (
+        echo "#### Running apache benchmark"
+        ab -c $AB_CONCURRENT -n $AB_COUNT -H 'x-auth-token: admin' -H 'openstack-api-version: placement latest' "${PLACEMENT_URL}/allocation_candidates?${PLACEMENT_QUERY}"
+    ) 2>&1 | tee -a $LOG
+}
+
 function write_allocation {
     # Take the first allocation request and send it back as a well-formed allocation
     curl -s -H 'x-auth-token: admin' -H 'openstack-api-version: placement latest' "${PLACEMENT_URL}/allocation_candidates?${PLACEMENT_QUERY}&limit=5" \
@@ -95,6 +107,7 @@ function check_placement {
     # log a message.
     if [[ $rp_count -ge $COUNT ]]; then
       load_candidates
+      ab_bench
     else
         (
             echo "Unable to create expected number of resource providers. Expected: ${COUNT}, Got: $rp_count"
diff --git a/gate/perfload-server.sh b/gate/perfload-server.sh
index ddd27faba..da4e423a4 100755
--- a/gate/perfload-server.sh
+++ b/gate/perfload-server.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password secret
 mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password secret
 mysql-server mysql-server/start_on_boot boolean true
 MYSQL_PRESEED
-sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev jq parallel
+sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev jq parallel apache2-utils
 sudo mysql -uroot -psecret -e "DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS placement;"
 sudo mysql -uroot -psecret -e "CREATE DATABASE placement CHARACTER SET utf8;"
 sudo mysql -uroot -psecret -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON placement.* TO 'root'@'%' identified by 'secret';"