Step CI
Open-source API testing and monitoring toolkit
Step CI is an open-source toolkit for automated API testing and monitoring driven by simple YAML workflow files. It can be self-hosted and run in CI to validate REST, GraphQL and gRPC APIs.
Key features
- YAML-defined API tests
- REST, GraphQL and gRPC
- CI-friendly
- Load testing
Strengths
- Released under the MPL-2.0 license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (1.9k GitHub stars)
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