Artillery Probe - a Swiss army knife for testing HTTP

[hassy]

Hello Artillery community. Very excited to announce the new artillery probe command that just landed in Artillery v2.0.0-15!

We see it as a Swiss army knife for testing HTTP. Think of it as a full HTTP client for the command-line with a couple of performance & reliability testing specific features.

What can you do with it?

• Send HTTP requests from the terminal. Use GET/POST/PUT etc, custom headers, form etc.
• HTTP/2 is supported
• See request performance waterfalls!
• Syntax highlighting and pretty-printing
• Built-in support for querying JSON with JMESPath. No need to reach for jq.
• Set checks on responses for quick acceptance testing!

Quick example:

artillery probe www.artillery.io/docs \
  -e "statusCode: 200" \
  -e "hasHeader: etag" \
  -e "{headerEquals: [server, Vercel]}" \
  -e "matchesRegexp: 'Artillery Docs'"

More information & examples in the blog post: https://www.artillery.io/blog/swiss-army-knife-for-http-testing

[hassy]

This is now its own CLI - Skytrace 💫 https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/tree/main/packages/skytrace#readme