Load Testing GraphQL APIs
Apply performance testing techniques to GraphQL endpoints, where a single URL hides wildly different query costs.
GraphQL Is Different
Unlike REST, a GraphQL API exposes one endpoint and the client decides what data to fetch. Two requests to the same URL can have radically different costs depending on the query body.
Everything Is a POST
Most GraphQL traffic is a POST with a JSON body containing a query string. Your load tool must send the query as the payload, not as the URL.
All lessons in this course
- API and Microservices Testing
- Event-Driven System Testing
- WebSocket and Streaming Testing
- Load Testing GraphQL APIs