Overview
Artillery is a CLI tool installed easily through npm
Artillery is a modern load testing and smoke testing solution designed for cross-functional teams that run microservice-based systems on AWS and rely on CI/CD to ship at high velocity
We are going to see how to install it and run some load tests from our computer
System requirements
Artillery is a CLI application that is installed on your computer. Artillery runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems with Node.js v12 or above installed.
Installation
To install global in your computer
$ npm install -g artillery
If you get this error checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules just add sudo so install Artillery like this sudo npm install -g artillery
Check installation
$ artillery dino
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Check version
$ artillery --version
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------------ Version Info ------------
Artillery: 1.7.2
Artillery Pro: not installed (https://artillery.io/pro)
Node.js: v14.15.0
OS: darwin/x64
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Run quick test
20 virtual users that send 100 requests GET each of them
$ artillery quick --count 20 --num 100 https://yoursite.com
All virtual users finished
Summary report @ 23:21:14(-0300) 2021-05-19
Scenarios launched: 20
Scenarios completed: 20
Requests completed: 2000
Mean response/sec: 26.94
Response time (msec):
min: 28
max: 912
median: 233
p95: 594
p99: 720.5
Scenario counts:
0: 20 (100%)
Codes:
200: 2000
See the Artillery’s command line reference