1. A method, comprising: provisioning, by a processing device, a load generation unit in a cloud computing environment; instructing the load generation unit to generate a load and apply the load to a first application server instance in the cloud computing environment; measuring a performance level of the first application server instance to determine if the first application server instance reaches a saturation point; and if the first application server instance reaches the saturation point, recording a performance statistic of the first application server instance.