Artillery

Artillery, formerly known as Artillery.io, is a company situated in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland, with a team size of five. The company operates fully remotely and is part of the Y Combinator S21 batch. Artillery specializes in the B2B infrastructure sector, providing a suite of load testing tools that support HTTP APIs, WebSocket, and Socket.IO services, as well as dynamic web applications through real headless browsers like Playwright. Its main offerings include a VS Code extension that enhances productivity by enabling users to create and run load tests within the IDE, and Artillery Cloud, a cloud-based load testing service that integrates with popular monitoring platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, and AWS CloudWatch. Artillery Cloud is available in both free and paid plans, with the latter starting at $199/month for continuous testing of production applications. Additionally, Artillery allows for serverless and distributed testing using AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and integrates with CI/CD pipelines for automated testing. The platform is designed to meet the needs of thousands of developer teams worldwide, ensuring that production systems remain fast and reliable. Artillery also offers an Enterprise subscription plan that includes running Artillery Cloud within a customer’s own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and allows running load tests from users’ own AWS accounts without managing any infrastructure.