New features & improvements

Engines

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

CLI/Core

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

Plugins

publish-metrics - OpenTelemetry

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

Fixes

Artillery Dashboard

• Ensure all Artillery console logs are sent correctly to Artillery Cloud.
• Fix issue with phase information not being sent correctly.

Engines

• socketio: Allow nested options (e.g. namespace) in emit without throwing validation error - Docs.
• socketio: Allow emit action to be an array of strings - 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.
• Display meaningful error when engine doesn’t match the engine provided in config.engine.

Plugins

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