Artillery v2.0.0-38

New features & improvements

Engines

• playwright: Update Playwright version to latest (1.39.0) (#2230).
• playwright: Add a convenience test.step() helper, allowing you to break your tests into steps that emit custom timing metrics (#2173) - Docs.

CLI/Core

• New CLI flag --scenario-name, allowing you to specify which scenario to run by its name in the test script (#2184) - Docs.
• Expose mean as a metric (#2163).
• Include scenario object in all engine hooks - you can now access this under context.scenario (#2158) - Docs.

Plugins

publish-metrics - OpenTelemetry

• Traces for HTTP requests are now nested under individual scenarios (#2211).
• Include all request metrics in traces: dns_lookup, tcp_handshake, tls_negotiation, request, first_byte, download (#2211).
• Include VU errors in traces (#2211).

Fixes

Artillery Cloud (join the waitlist)

• Ensure all Artillery console logs are sent correctly to Artillery Cloud (#2212).
• Fix issue with phase information not being sent correctly (#2203, #2204).

Engines

• socketio: Allow nested options (e.g. namespace) in emit without throwing validation error (8b3f035, 2c714fc) - Docs.
• socketio: Allow emit action to be an array of strings (#2167) - Docs.

CLI/Core

• fargate: Fix issue with --packages flag.
• fargate: Include apdex plugin and playwright engine by default in image, preventing additional installation in workers.
• Allow unnamed capture groups to be used in capture (#2127).
• Display meaningful error when engine doesn't match the engine provided in config.engine (#2101).

Plugins

• apdex - Allow frustrated, satisfied and tolerated metrics to be checked with ensure plugin (#2210, #2213).
• apdex - Prevent plugin from crashing when using processor functions (#2195).
• publish-metrics - Set headers as metadata for otel-grpc exporter in OpenTelemetry reporter (82cb40b) - Docs.
• publish-metrics - Create endpoint path correctly so it works with managed instances of Dynatrace (ccf6229).
• publish-metrics: Fix OpenTelemetry reporter debug logging (f6ebc70).

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