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Nov 22, 2023
Examples
- k6 examples - A list of common examples on the k6 documentation.
Extensions
Related
- How They Load Test (⭐54) - A collection of resources on how companies around the world perform load testing.
- Load Testing Toolkit (⭐117) - A collection of open-source tools for debugging, benchmarking, load and stress testing your code or services.
- awesome-http-benchmark (⭐3k) - A collection of HTTP benchmark tools, testing/debugging, & restAPI (RESTful).
Apr 24, 2023
Articles
- Distributed load testing with k6 - Thijs Feryn presents in ConFoo Montreal 2023.
Apr 17, 2023
Articles
- 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.
Sep 30, 2022
Articles
- k6 Learn (⭐210) - Explanation of the principles of load testing and practical examples for how to do it with k6.
Sep 05, 2022
Articles
- Distributed Load Testing With K6 - Setting up distributed execution with k6-operator and Argo workflows.
Aug 30, 2022
Examples
- k6 templates (⭐30) - Opinionated starter templates for k6 projects.
- k6-typescript-template (⭐227) - Template to use TypeScript with k6.
Aug 29, 2022
Articles
- How to write three times fewer lines of code when doing load testing - Building a k6 extension in Go to test Tarantool.
- Umbraco 9 - What a Performance! - Test the performance of Umbraco v9 on Azure against Umbraco v8 and comparing Windows vs Linux.
Videos
- How to use k6 Cloud for load testing - A series of quick videos for getting started with k6 Cloud.
Tools
- k6 for IntelliJ - IntelliJ-based Plugin to run k6 tests locally or in the k6 Cloud from your IntelliJ IDE.
Aug 08, 2022
Tools
- k6-junit (⭐12) - k6 JUnit summary exporter libray.
- k6-expect (⭐2) - k6 library that simplifies writing tests in a functional way by providing a jest-like syntax for expectations.
Jul 14, 2022
Articles
- On maintaining a k6 codebase, Part 1 - Personal tips to maintain a challenging k6 load testing codebase.
Jun 14, 2022
Tools
Jun 06, 2022
Tools
- k6-html-reporter (⭐21) - Tool for generating k6 HTML reports.
Apr 14, 2022
Articles
- Integrating k6 with Apache Kafka - Sending output from k6 to Apache Kafka.
- 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.
Apr 04, 2022
Examples
- k6-template-es6 (⭐70) - Template repository for bundling test projects into single test scripts runnable by k6.
Dec 21, 2021
Articles
- Load Testing with Azure DevOps and k6 - How to setup Azure DevOps to perform automated load tests using k6, handleCallback, and JUnit.
- 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.
Nov 26, 2021
Articles
Videos
CI
Nov 08, 2021
Articles
- Load testing with k6 - Using k6 for load, soak, stress, spike and smoke testing.
- 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.
Videos
- 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 Cloud Summit 2021.
- Write load tests with co-pilot - Yusuf writing k6 tests using GitHub co-pilot.
Examples
- k6-circleci-example (⭐5) - Running k6 load tests as part of a CircleCI build.
- k6-jenkins-example (⭐8) - Running k6 load tests as part of a Jenkins build.
- k6-github-actions-example (⭐29) - Running k6 load tests as part of a GitHub Actions build.
- k6-azure-pipelines-example (⭐18) - Running k6 load tests as part of an Azure DevOps Pipeline.
- example-data-generation (⭐43) - Generate realistic data for k6 using faker.
Tools
- har-to-k6 (⭐104) - Tool for converting HAR recordings to k6 test scripts.
- postman-to-k6 (⭐283) - Tool for converting Postman collections to k6 test scripts.
- jmeter-to-k6 (⭐62) - Tool for converting JMeter test cases to k6 test scripts.
CI
Oct 28, 2021
Videos
Oct 06, 2021
Articles
- K6 — Custom Slack Integration: Metrics are the Magic of Tests - How to send k6 output results to Slack using the handleSummary callback.
Sep 14, 2021
Articles
- Beginner's guide to load testing with k6 - Introductory guide in several parts, helping you get started with k6.
- Beautiful Load Testing With K6 and Docker Compose - How to run load tests using the awesome combination of Docker Compose, K6, InfluxDB and Grafana.
Examples
- k6-multiscenario-template (⭐48) - Use K6 to implement a Multi Scenario template.
- docker-k6-grafana-influxdb (⭐125) - Demonstrates how to run load tests with containerised instances of K6, Grafana and InfluxDB.
Aug 17, 2021
Articles
- Introducing TestRail in your K6 tests - Reporting k6 output to TestRail.
Aug 01, 2021
CI
- k6 CircleCI Orb - k6 Orb for running k6 in CircleCI. Supports running tests both on the CircleCI runner and in the k6 cloud SaaS service.
Jul 19, 2021
Articles
- Load Testing SQL Databases with k6 - How to use the xk6-sql extension to test SQL databases directly.
Mar 26, 2021
Tools
- k6-reporter (⭐302) - Tool for converting k6 output to HTML reports.
Mar 01, 2021
Articles
- Load Testing & Black Friday capacity planning - How Back Market prepared for Black Friday with k6 based load testing.
CI
- k6 for GitHub actions - Marketplace action for running k6 in GitHub Actions.
- k6 for Azure DevOps Pipelines - Marketplace Extension for running k6 in an Azure Devops Pipeline.
Feb 28, 2021
Examples
- k6-bitbucket-pipelines-example (⭐3) - Running k6 load tests as part of a Bitbucket Pipeline build.
Dec 11, 2020
Examples
- continuous-k6k8s (⭐18) - Continuously run k6 tests in Kubernetes using cronjobs.
Nov 29, 2020
Extensions
- GitHub Topic: xk6 - Explore k6 extensions tagged with the xk6 label.
Apr 27, 2020
Tools
- k6 for visual studio code - Marketplace Extension for running k6 directly from your IDE.
Apr 02, 2020
Tools
- k6 generator (⭐18k) - Tool for converting Swagger/OpenAPI specifications to k6 test scripts.
Mar 09, 2020
Articles
- 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.
- CloudPosse's Load Testing Stack (⭐55) - Load testing stack using k6, Grafana and InfluxDB.
Examples
- k6-performance-test-websocket (⭐5) - Example of performance test for websocket with k6.
Tools
- k6-to-junit (⭐18) - Tool for converting k6 output to JUnit XML for easy use with CIs.
- jslib.k6.io - Useful utility libs for k6 scripts.