Using Artillery to load test
Doing user load testing with Artillery and finding it to be clean, useful, and fully featured
Install Artillery
npm install artillery@latest -g
Sample configuration file
The following is a simple load test with the following parameters
- Only 1 phase
- Start a test run that lasts 60 seconds with new users arriving 20 per every 5 seconds until reaching
- Single test url
GET
config:
target: 'https://artillery.io'
phases:
- duration: 60
arrivalRate: 20
defaults:
headers:
x-my-service-auth: '987401838271002188298567'
scenarios:
- flow:
- get:
url: "/docs"
Commands to test the run
Run this in quiet mode with an output report file
artillery run test.yml -q -o test.json
When this is completed generate a human readable report from the test run
artillery report test.json
Which produces this nice html report test.json.html
That looks something like this

Detailed example with environments
An example that will allow me to control and launch different tests based on environment
config:
target: 'http://localhost/amazingapp'
tls:
rejectUnauthorized: false
phases:
- duration: 30
arrivalRate: 1
rampTo: 10
environments:
alb1:
target: 'https://alb1.not_a_real_domain.nonono'
tls:
rejectUnauthorized: false
phases:
- duration: 30
arrivalRate: 1
rampTo: 10
alb2:
target: 'https://alb2.not_a_real_domain.nonono'
tls:
rejectUnauthorized: false
phases:
- duration: 30
arrivalRate: 1
rampTo: 10
alb3:
target: 'https://alb3.not_a_real_domain.nonono'
tls:
rejectUnauthorized: false
phases:
- duration: 30
arrivalRate: 1
rampTo: 10
scenarios:
- flow:
- get:
url: "/search?keyword=abc"