Artillery

Artillery is a unified platform for production-quality performance and reliability testing. It combines scalable load testing, Playwright-based end-to-end (E2E) testing, and synthetic monitoring into a single toolkit. Built for developers, QA engineers, and SREs, Artillery helps teams continuously verify that their apps and APIs remain fast, reliable, and cost-effective. The platform operates via a CLI and a cloud dashboard (Artillery Cloud). Users write test scripts in YAML or JavaScript, and can reuse existing Playwright tests for browser-based load testing. Distributed testing is built-in, running on serverless infrastructure (AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Azure Container Instances) to scale to millions of virtual users. Artillery also provides out-of-the-box integrations with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.) and observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, etc.). What sets Artillery apart is its native support for Playwright at scale, automatic Web Vitals tracking, and a 'Turbo Runner' that shards and parallelizes test execution for up to 10x faster E2E suites. The platform is incrementally adoptable: teams can start with simple HTTP load tests and gradually add browser-based scenarios, production monitoring, and distributed execution. Artillery also offers a VS Code extension and a rich plugin ecosystem (Slack, expect, apdex, fuzzer, etc.). Artillery prioritizes developer experience and cost efficiency. Its serverless distributed model means users only pay for the compute they consume, with built-in cost reporting. The platform is designed for both small teams running occasional tests and large enterprises requiring SSO, audit logs, and custom SLAs. Unlike many competitors, Artillery embraces the open-source ecosystem while offering a commercial cloud tier with collaboration features.