# Locust Load Testing

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/scalability-testing/locust/  
**Provider:** Scalability Testing — https://apis.io/providers/scalability-testing/  
**Base URL:** http://localhost:8089  
**Documentation:** https://locust.io/

Locust Load Testing is one of 6 APIs that [Scalability Testing](https://apis.io/providers/scalability-testing/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Load Testing, Locust, Open-Source, and Python. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Locust is a scalable, distributed open-source load testing framework written in Python. Test scenarios are defined in pure Python code. Locust exposes a REST API and web UI for controlling test execution, viewing real-time metrics, and integrating with CI/CD pipelines.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.locust.io/en/stable/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/locustio/locust

## Other Scalability Testing APIs (5)

- [Grafana k6 Cloud API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability-testing/k6-cloud-api/)
- [BlazeMeter API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability-testing/blazemeter-api/)
- [Apache JMeter](https://apis.io/apis/scalability-testing/jmeter/)
- [Gatling Load Testing](https://apis.io/apis/scalability-testing/gatling/)
- [Scalability Testing Projects API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability-testing/scalability-testing-projects-api/)

## Tags

Load Testing, Locust, Open-Source, Python

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