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 — 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.

Load Testing. k6 + TypeScript + Azure DevOps

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.

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.

Streamlining Performance Testing with K6 and ChatGPT

Monish Correia writes k6 tests using GitHub co-pilot.

k6 YouTube Channel

How to use k6 Cloud for load testing

A series of quick videos for getting started with k6 Cloud.

Intro to load testing with k6 and Grafana (k6 data source plugin and Prometheus Remote Write)

From Grafana ObservabilityCON: Intro to using k6 load testing with the Grafana observability stack

From Grafana ObservabilityCON: Building performance tests into your CI pipeline with k6 and Grafana, w/ Matthew…

EveryoneCanContribute cafe: Load Performance Testing with k6

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 and performance regression testing tool, k6, and how to load test your APIs and websites, by Chris James.

Application Load Testing with k6

Daniel Knittl-Frank @TechTalk Days 2021, Intro to k6.

Performance Testing From Zero to Hero with K6 & Azure

Jose Luis Latorre Millas at NDC Oslo 2021.

AI-Powered K6 Testing: No Code, No Hassle, Just ChatGPT! 🦾🚀

In this video, Karthik K.K. demonstrates how ChatGPT can create k6 tests without writing a single line of code.

QAPractices Load Testing with k6

Practical guide to load, stress and soak testing with k6 and Grafana.

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.

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 Testkube executor

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.

k6 for Azure Pipelines

k6 for Bamboo

k6 for Buddy

k6 for CircleCI

k6 for Flagger

k6 for GitHub Actions

k6 for GitLab

k6 for Google Cloud Build

k6 for Jenkins

k6 for Keptn

k6 for TeamCity

k6 Extensions

GitHub Topic: xk6

Explore k6 extensions tagged with the xk6 label.

Extension Registry

Curated listing of k6 extensions.

xk6-client-tracing

Client for load testing distributed tracing backends.

xk6-disruptor

Inject faults to test 💣.

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.

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.

How They Load Test

A collection of resources on how companies around the world perform load testing.

Load Testing Toolkit

A collection of open-source tools for debugging, benchmarking, load and stress testing your code or services.

awesome-http-benchmark

A collection of HTTP benchmark tools, testing/debugging, & restAPI (RESTful).