diff --git a/monitoring/Makefile b/monitoring/Makefile
index ca81bd495f..94eee51ab1 100644
--- a/monitoring/Makefile
+++ b/monitoring/Makefile
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ format:
 unit-test:
 	cd uss_qualifier && make unit_test
 	cd monitorlib && make unit_test
+	cd benchmarker && make unit_test
 
 image: ../uv.lock ../pyproject.toml $(shell find . -type f ! -path "*/output/*" ! -path "*/.*" ! -path "*/__pycache__/*" ! -name image ! -name image-dev ! -name "*.pyc") $(shell find ../interfaces -type f)
 	./build.sh
diff --git a/monitoring/benchmarker/Makefile b/monitoring/benchmarker/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fe42ad0f5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/monitoring/benchmarker/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+.PHONY: unit_test
+unit_test:
+	./scripts/run_unit_tests.sh
diff --git a/monitoring/benchmarker/engine/loads/user_search/test_user_search.py b/monitoring/benchmarker/engine/loads/user_search/test_user_search.py
index 69d26fb565..e2c4bd586d 100644
--- a/monitoring/benchmarker/engine/loads/user_search/test_user_search.py
+++ b/monitoring/benchmarker/engine/loads/user_search/test_user_search.py
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ def fake_create_vu(
 
     with (
         patch(
-            "monitoring.benchmarker.engine.loads.user_search.user_search.create_virtual_user",
+            "monitoring.benchmarker.engine.loads.step_execution.create_virtual_user",
             side_effect=fake_create_vu,
         ),
         ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=4) as executor,
diff --git a/monitoring/benchmarker/scripts/in_container/run_unit_tests.sh b/monitoring/benchmarker/scripts/in_container/run_unit_tests.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..4165994b17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/monitoring/benchmarker/scripts/in_container/run_unit_tests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -eo pipefail
+
+# This script is intended to be called from within a Docker container running
+# the interuss/monitoring-dev image.  In that context, this script runs the
+# benchmarker unit tests.
+
+# Ensure benchmarker is the working directory
+OS=$(uname)
+if [[ $OS == "Darwin" ]]; then
+	# OSX uses BSD readlink
+	BASEDIR="$(dirname "$0")"
+else
+	BASEDIR=$(readlink -e "$(dirname "$0")")
+fi
+cd "${BASEDIR}/../.." || exit 1
+
+uv run pytest
diff --git a/monitoring/benchmarker/scripts/run_unit_tests.sh b/monitoring/benchmarker/scripts/run_unit_tests.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..c37cae1c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/monitoring/benchmarker/scripts/run_unit_tests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -eo pipefail
+set -o xtrace
+
+# Find and change to repo root directory
+OS=$(uname)
+if [[ "$OS" == "Darwin" ]]; then
+	# OSX uses BSD readlink
+	BASEDIR="$(dirname "$0")"
+else
+	BASEDIR=$(readlink -e "$(dirname "$0")")
+fi
+cd "${BASEDIR}/../../.." || exit 1
+
+(
+cd monitoring || exit 1
+make image-dev
+)
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2086
+docker run --name benchmarker_unit_test \
+  --rm \
+  -e MONITORING_GITHUB_ROOT=${MONITORING_GITHUB_ROOT:-} \
+  -v "$(pwd):/app" \
+  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
+  interuss/monitoring-dev \
+  benchmarker/scripts/in_container/run_unit_tests.sh