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.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/artillery/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: MPL-2.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/artillery.png
tags:
- Load Testing
- Performance Testing
- Open-Source
- Testing
- DevOps
- Node.js
tags_raw:
- Load Testing
- Performance Testing
- Open Source
- Testing
- DevOps
- Node.js
created: '2026-03-25'
modified: '2026-09-07'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: artillery:artillery-cloud-api
  name: Artillery Cloud API
  description: 'Artillery Cloud is the hosted platform behind the open source Artillery CLI: it runs distributed load and
    Playwright E2E tests at scale across AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate and Azure ACI, stores and retains test reports, provides
    performance trends, custom charts, workspaces and the Redis-compatible Stash key/value store, and integrates with CI/CD.
    The HTTP surface at https://app.artillery.io/api is real but UNDOCUMENTED — every anonymous request returns HTTP 401 with
    the body {"error":{"data":{"message":"Missing auth token","code":401,"type":"ServerError"}}}, and Artillery publishes
    no OpenAPI, GraphQL schema or written reference for it (probed 2026-09-07). The documented, first-party way to drive Artillery
    Cloud programmatically is the artillery CLI with --record and --key, the ARTILLERY_CLOUD_API_KEY environment variable,
    and the @artilleryio/playwright-reporter library.'
  humanURL: https://www.artillery.io/docs/reference/cli/run
  baseURL: https://app.artillery.io/api
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/artillery.png
  tags:
  - Load Testing
  - Cloud
  - CI/CD
  - Performance
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.artillery.io/docs/reference/cli/run
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.artillery.io/docs/get-started/get-artillery
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.artillery.io/
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/releases
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/blob/main/SECURITY.md
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: MPL-2.0
  url: https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/artillery-domain-security.yml
- url: https://www.artillery.io/blog
  type: Blog
- 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: ChangeLog
  url: https://www.artillery.io/changelog
  title: Changelog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.artillery.io/pricing
  title: Pricing
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.artillery.io/docs/reference/cli
  title: Artillery CLI Reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.artillery.io/docs/get-started/first-test
  title: Run Your First Artillery Test
- type: Support
  url: https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/discussions
  title: GitHub Discussions
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.artillery.io/login
  title: Sign in to Artillery Cloud
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.artillery.io/terms/tos
  title: Terms of Service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.artillery.io/terms/privacy
  title: Privacy Policy
- type: Security
  url: https://www.artillery.io/terms/security
  title: Security Policy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://artilleryio.statuspage.datadoghq.com/
  title: Artillery Status
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/blob/main/SECURITY.md
  title: Supported Versions Policy
- type: Packages
  url: packages/artillery-packages.yml
  title: First-party packages
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/artillery-packages.yml
  title: Artillery client libraries
- type: CLI
  url: cli/artillery-cli.yml
  title: Artillery CLI surface
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/artillery-llms.txt
  title: llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
  title: Artillery official agent skills
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/artillery-authentication.yml
  title: Authentication profile
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/artillery-conventions.yml
  title: API conventions and reversibility
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/artillery-lifecycle.yml
  title: Lifecycle, versioning and support policy
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/artillery-changelog.yml
  title: Structured changelog
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/artillery-conformance.yml
  title: Standards conformance
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/artillery-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
  title: Vulnerability disclosure
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/artillery-trust-center.yml
  title: Security posture
- type: Plans
  url: plans/artillery-plans-pricing.yml
  title: Plans and pricing
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/artillery-rate-limits.yml
  title: Published usage limits
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/artillery-finops.yml
  title: FinOps profile
- 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
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-07'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 15
  pass: local-v3