Artillery Plugins

What you'll learn

• How to install Artillery plugins
• How to use plugins in your test definitions

Overview

Artillery has support for plugins, which can add functionality and extend its built-in features. Plugins can hook into Artillery's internal APIs and extend its behavior with new capabilities.

Plugins are distributed as normal npm packages which are named with an artillery-plugin- prefix, e.g. artillery-plugin-expect.

Installing plugins

Plugins can be installed with npm or yarn in the same way as any other module. If Artillery is installed globally (i.e. with npm install -g artillery), plugins should be installed globally too:

npm install artillery-plugin-expect

If Artillery is installed locally to a project (i.e. a directory with package.json in it), plugins should be installed as a normal dependency:

npm install -D artillery-plugin-expect

Using plugins

To use a plugin's functionality when running a test script that makes use of it, the plugin needs to be loaded via config.plugins in the test script.

For example, to load the functionality provided by artillery-plugin-expect, add expect under config.plugins:

config:
  target: "https://service-foo.preprod.acmecorp.digital"
  plugins:
    expect: {}

By convention, Artillery will try to load npm package with the name of artillery-plugin-expect for that configuration.

In this example, we are not providing any configuration for the expect plugin, but most plugins will allow for some configuration.