Artillery

aid: artillery
name: Artillery
description: Artillery is an open source load testing and performance testing platform for APIs, microservices, and web applications.
  Built with Node.js and available as an npm package, Artillery supports HTTP/1, HTTP/2, WebSocket, Socket.IO, gRPC, and custom
  protocols through plugins. It includes a YAML-based test scenario definition language, a plugin ecosystem for extending
  functionality, and Artillery Cloud for distributed load testing, CI/CD integration, and centralized reporting. Artillery
  is used by developers, QA engineers, and SREs to run load tests, performance benchmarks, Playwright-based synthetic monitoring,
  and end-to-end tests at scale. The project is licensed under MPL-2.0 and maintained by Artilleryio.
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type: Index
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tags:
- Load Testing
- Performance Testing
- Open Source
- Testing
- DevOps
- Node.js
created: '2026-03-25'
modified: '2026-04-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: artillery:artillery-cloud-api
  name: Artillery Cloud API
  description: Artillery Cloud provides a hosted platform for running distributed load tests at scale, storing test results,
    team collaboration, and integrating with CI/CD pipelines. The Artillery Cloud API enables programmatic triggering of test
    runs, retrieval of test results, and management of test configurations.
  humanURL: https://www.artillery.io/docs/reference/cli/run-test
  baseURL: https://app.artillery.io/api
  tags:
  - Load Testing
  - Cloud
  - CI/CD
  - Performance
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.artillery.io/docs/reference/cli/run-test
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.artillery.io/docs/get-started/get-artillery
  - url: graphql/artillery-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/artillery-io
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.artillery.io/
  title: Artillery Website
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.artillery.io/docs
  title: Documentation
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/artilleryio
  title: Artillery GitHub Organization
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery
  title: Artillery Source Repository
- type: ReleaseNotes
  url: https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
  title: Changelog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.artillery.io/pricing
  title: Pricing
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: HTTP Load Testing
    description: Load test HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 REST APIs, GraphQL endpoints, and web applications with configurable virtual
      users, arrival rates, and scenario definitions.
  - name: WebSocket and Socket.IO Testing
    description: Test real-time applications with WebSocket and Socket.IO protocol support, enabling load testing of chat,
      notifications, and streaming applications.
  - name: Playwright Integration
    description: Run Playwright browser-based end-to-end scenarios under load, enabling realistic user simulation and synthetic
      monitoring from the same test framework.
  - name: Plugin Ecosystem
    description: Extensible plugin system with official plugins for gRPC, Kafka, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, and community plugins
      for many other protocols.
  - name: Artillery Cloud
    description: Hosted cloud platform for running distributed load tests at massive scale across multiple cloud regions,
      with centralized results and team collaboration features.
  - name: YAML Test Scenarios
    description: Human-readable YAML test scenario definitions supporting think time, loops, conditional logic, data CSV files,
      and custom JavaScript functions.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: API Load Testing
    description: Backend developers and QA engineers run load tests against REST and GraphQL APIs to identify performance
      bottlenecks and ensure stability under expected traffic volumes.
  - name: CI/CD Performance Gates
    description: Engineering teams integrate Artillery into CI/CD pipelines to run performance tests on every pull request,
      failing builds that exceed latency or error rate thresholds.
  - name: Synthetic Monitoring
    description: SREs use Artillery with Playwright to run synthetic monitors that continuously validate critical user journeys
      from multiple cloud regions.
  - name: Pre-Launch Stress Testing
    description: Product teams run stress tests before major launches or sales events to identify the maximum capacity of
      their infrastructure.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: GitHub Actions
    description: Official Artillery GitHub Action for running load tests in CI/CD pipelines with automatic reporting and performance
      gate enforcement.
  - name: Datadog
    description: Artillery publishes metrics to Datadog for real-time monitoring and alerting during load test runs.
  - name: AWS Lambda
    description: Artillery can run distributed load tests using AWS Lambda as the execution backend, enabling serverless-scale
      testing.
  - name: Playwright
    description: Native Playwright integration for browser-based load testing and synthetic monitoring scenarios.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com