k6
Articles
30_ENTRIES- k6 Learn
Explanation of the principles of load testing and practical examples for how to do it with k6.
- k6 OSS workshop
A 2-3 hour k6 workshop with practical k6 examples using the QuickPizza demo app.
- Beginner's guide to load testing with k6
Introductory guide in several parts, helping you get started with k6.
- Best practices organizing performance testing projects with k6
Guidelines to scale your performance testing across multiple teams and projects.Part 2 - JavaScript tools, shared libraries, and TypeScript - Stting up your k6 performance testing suite with JavaScript tools, shared libraries, and TypeScript.
- Distributed load testing with k6
Thijs Feryn presents in ConFoo Montreal 2023.
- Load Testing with k6
Brief overview of features and capabilities of k6.
- Test and visualize with InfluxDB, Grafana and K6
Setting up load tests and visualizing them using grafana dashboards.
- Open source load testing tool review 2020
Detailed comparison of the most popular open source load testing tools.
- Load Testing Your API with Swagger/OpenAPI and k6
Generate k6 load test scripts from OpenAPI specifications.
- Load Testing Your API with Postman
How to use Postman collections to load test your API.
- Load Testing & Black Friday capacity planning
How Back Market prepared for Black Friday with k6 based load testing.
- Load Testing SQL Databases with k6
How to use the xk6-sql extension to test SQL databases directly.
- Introducing TestRail in your K6 tests
Reporting k6 output to TestRail.
- Beautiful Load Testing With K6 and Docker Compose
How to run load tests using the awesome combination of Docker Compose, K6, InfluxDB and Grafana.
- Load Testing with Azure DevOps and k6
How to setup Azure DevOps to perform automated load tests using k6, handleCallback, and JUnit.
- K6 β Custom Slack Integration: Metrics are the Magic of Tests
How to send k6 output results to Slack using the handleSummary callback.
- Load testing with k6
Using k6 for load, soak, stress, spike and smoke testing.
- How to write three times fewer lines of code when doing load testing
Building a k6 extension in Go to test Tarantool.
- Performance testing with k6
On API performance testing, with Open API and TypeScript.
- k6 introduces browser automation and Prometheus support in k6 OSS
From the Grafana blog: feature announcements at ObservabilityCON 2021.
- Testing shift left observability with the Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, and k6
From the Grafana blog: a summary of Executive Director of Platform Engineering at JPMorgan Chase, Vinodh Ravi's talk at ObservabilityCON 2021.
- Umbraco 9 - What a Performance!
Test the performance of Umbraco v9 on Azure against Umbraco v8 and comparing Windows vs Linux.
- On maintaining a k6 codebase, Part 1
Personal tips to maintain a challenging k6 load testing codebase.
- Distributed Load Testing With K6
Setting up distributed execution with k6-operator and Argo workflows.
- Load testing with k6 and k8s
The Toucan DevOps team explains why they chose k6 as their load testing tool and how they deploy it on k8s.
- CloudPosse's Load Testing Stack
Load testing stack using k6, Grafana and InfluxDB.
- Real-time stress: AnyCable, k6, WebSockets, and Yabeda
Evil Martians adding "real-time stress" with k6 and WebSockets.
- Scaling Confidently with the Load and Fault Team
Robinhood on load testing a Kubernetes system with k6.
- Streamlining Performance Testing with K6 and ChatGPT
Monish Correia writes k6 tests using GitHub co-pilot.
Videos
7_ENTRIES- How to use k6 Cloud for load testing
A series of quick videos for getting started with k6 Cloud.
- Playlist - What others says about k6
What is K6 & How to get started with k6 - Tutorial using k6 Extensions for Observability by "Is it Observable?"Website Performance + Load Testing with K6 (k6.io) in 5 MINUTES! - Introductory overview of k6, showing how to create a test from a HAR file, by the DevOps Directive.Performance Testing your web app with k6 - A walkthrough of the open-source load β¦
Examples/Templates
15_ENTRIES- k6 examples
A list of common examples on the k6 documentation.
- k6 QuickPizza examples
Web application used for demos and workshops with multiple k6 examples.
- k6-template-es6
Starter template using Webpack and Babel to enable ES6 features in k6 tests.
- k6-typescript-template
Starter template using Webpack bundler to write k6 tests in TypeScript.
- k6-rollup-example
Example using Rollup to bundle k6 tests.
- Jahmilli/k6-example
Starter template using Vite (Rollup) bundler to write k6 tests in TypeScript.
- tom-miseur/k6-templates
Opinionated starter templates for k6 projects.
- SwissLife-OSS/k6-multiscenario-template
Use K6 to implement a Multi Scenario template.
- agilob/multiscenario-tests
Running multiple scenarios at once.
- Im5tu/template-k6
A K6 Performance Test Suite Template.
- mohsenny/k6-test-template
Load testing framework.
- kwidera/k6_framework
Another k6 framework example.
- Sahanipe/pet_store
Modularized scripts for the Swagger PetStore APIs.
- lreimer/continuous-k6k8s
Continuously run k6 tests in Kubernetes using cronjobs.
- luketn/docker-k6-grafana-influxdb
Demonstrates how to run load tests with containerised instances of K6, Grafana and InfluxDB.
Tools
13_ENTRIES- k6-to-junit
Tool for converting k6 output to JUnit XML for easy use with CIs.
- k6-reporter
Tool for converting k6 output to HTML reports.
- k6-html-reporter
Tool for generating k6 HTML reports.
- har-to-k6
Tool for converting HAR recordings to k6 test scripts.
- postman-to-k6
Tool for converting Postman collections to k6 test scripts.
- k6 generator
Tool for converting Swagger/OpenAPI specifications to k6 test scripts.
- jmeter-to-k6
Tool for converting JMeter test cases to k6 test scripts.
- jslib.k6.io
Useful utility libs for k6 scripts.
- k6 for visual studio code
Marketplace Extension for running k6 directly from your IDE.
- k6 for IntelliJ
IntelliJ-based Plugin to run and debug [sic!] k6 tests locally or in the k6 Cloud from your IntelliJ IDE.
- k6-junit
k6 JUnit summary exporter libray.
- k6-expect
k6 library that simplifies writing tests in a functional way by providing a jest-like syntax for expectations.
CI/CD
12_ENTRIESExtensions
3_ENTRIES- GitHub Topic: xk6
Explore k6 extensions tagged with the xk6 label.
- Extension Registry
Curated listing of k6 extensions.
Official
12_ENTRIES- xk6-client-tracing
Client for load testing distributed tracing backends.
- xk6-disruptor
Inject faults to test π£.
- xk6-exec
Run external commands.
- xk6-kubernetes
Interact with Kubernetes clusters.
- xk6-loki
Client for load testing Loki.
- xk6-notification
Create notifications.
- xk6-output-influxdb
Export results to InfluxDB v2.
- xk6-output-kafka
Export k6 results in real-time to Kafka.
- xk6-output-timescaledb
Export k6 results to TimescaleDB.
- xk6-client-prometheus-remote
Test Prometheus Remote Write performance.
- xk6-sql
Load-test SQL Servers (PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 for now).
- xk6-ssh
SSH.
Community
23_ENTRIES- xk6-cable
Test Action Cable and AnyCable functionality.
- xk6-coap
Interact with Constrained Application Protocol endpoints.
- xk6-dotenv
Load env vars from a .env file.
- xk6-ethereum
K6 extension for ethereum protocols.
- xk6-faker
Generate random fake data.
- xk6-file
Write files.
- xk6-g0
Write k6 tests in golang.
- xk6-kafka
Load-test Apache Kafka. Includes support for Avro messages.
- xk6-kv
Share key-value data between VUs.
- xk6-mock
Mock HTTP(S) servers.
- xk6-mqtt
MQTT extension.
- xk6-nats
Provides NATS support for k6 tests.
- xk6-opentelemetry
Generate OpenTelemetry signals from within your test scripts.
- xk6-output-elasticsearch
Export results to Elasticsearch 8.x.
- xk6-output-prometheus-pushgateway
Export results to Prometheus pushgateway.
- xk6-output-statsd
Enables real-time output of test metrics to a StatsD service.
- xk6-output-timestream
Export results to AWS Timestream.
- xk6-playwright
Browser automation and end-to-end web testing using Playwright.
- xk6-prometheus
Prometheus HTTP exporter for k6.
- xk6-prompt
Support for input arguments via UI.
- xk6-sse
A k6 extension for Server-Sent Events (SSE).
- xk6-tcp
Send data to TCP port.
- xk6-top
Updating the current k6 metrics summaries on the terminal during the test run.