
About Artillery
Artillery is a toolkit for load testing, Playwright end to end tests and production monitoring. It covers APIs, web apps and real time services.
What it does
The open source CLI runs load tests against HTTP APIs, GraphQL services and Socket.IO apps. It can also reuse existing Playwright tests for browser based load testing. Artillery Cloud adds a central dashboard for test results, Web Vitals tracking and distributed runs on serverless infrastructure in your own AWS or Azure account.
Key features
- Load tests for HTTP, GraphQL and Socket.IO
- Reuse of Playwright tests for browser load
- Reports linked to GitHub pull requests
- Distributed runs from your own cloud account
Who it's for
Engineering and QA teams that need to load test their APIs and keep web performance checks running in continuous integration.
Pricing and good to know
The Artillery CLI is open source under the MPL-2.0 license. Artillery Cloud offers a free sign up and pay-as-you-go runs on serverless infrastructure. The GitHub repository has about 9.1k stars.
Highlights
- Load tests for APIs, GraphQL and Socket.IO
- Reuse Playwright tests for browser load tests
- Test reports linked to GitHub branches
- Distributed runs in your own AWS or Azure account












