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Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2024

Articles

k6 OSS workshop (⭐3) - A 2-3 hour k6 workshop with practical k6 examples using the QuickPizza demo app.

Examples/Templates

k6 QuickPizza examples (⭐46) - Web application used for demos and workshops with multiple k6 examples.

Jan 15 - Jan 21, 2024

Examples/Templates

k6-rollup-example (⭐2) - Example using Rollup to bundle k6 tests.

Jahmilli/k6-example (⭐7) - Starter template using Vite (Rollup) bundler to write k6 tests in TypeScript.

agilob/multiscenario-tests - Running multiple scenarios at once.

Jan 08 - Jan 14, 2024

Articles

Streamlining Performance Testing with K6 and ChatGPT - Monish Correia writes k6 tests using GitHub co-pilot.

Examples/Templates

tom-miseur/k6-templates (⭐34) - Opinionated starter templates for k6 projects.

SwissLife-OSS/k6-multiscenario-template (⭐51) - Use K6 to implement a Multi Scenario template.

Im5tu/template-k6 (⭐5) - A K6 Performance Test Suite Template.

mohsenny/k6-test-template (⭐3) - Load testing framework.

kwidera/k6_framework (⭐0) - Another k6 framework example.

Sahanipe/pet_store (⭐0) - Modularized scripts for the Swagger PetStore APIs.

lreimer/continuous-k6k8s (⭐17) - Continuously run k6 tests in Kubernetes using cronjobs.

luketn/docker-k6-grafana-influxdb (⭐146) - Demonstrates how to run load tests with containerised instances of K6, Grafana and InfluxDB.

CI/CD

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 Jenkins

k6 for Keptn

k6 for TeamCity

Nov 20 - Nov 26, 2023

Examples/Templates

k6 examples - A list of common examples on the k6 documentation.

Extensions

k6 Extensions

How They Load Test (⭐79) - A collection of resources on how companies around the world perform load testing.

Load Testing Toolkit (⭐145) - A collection of open-source tools for debugging, benchmarking, load and stress testing your code or services.

awesome-http-benchmark (⭐3.2k) - A collection of HTTP benchmark tools, testing/debugging, & restAPI (RESTful).

Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2023

Articles

Distributed load testing with k6 - Thijs Feryn presents in ConFoo Montreal 2023.

Apr 17 - Apr 23, 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 26 - Oct 02, 2022

Articles

k6 Learn (⭐276) - Explanation of the principles of load testing and practical examples for how to do it with k6.

Sep 05 - Sep 11, 2022

Articles

Distributed Load Testing With K6 - Setting up distributed execution with k6-operator and Argo workflows.

Aug 29 - Sep 04, 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.

Examples/Templates

k6-typescript-template (⭐256) - Starter template using Webpack bundler to write k6 tests in TypeScript.

Tools

k6 for IntelliJ - IntelliJ-based Plugin to run k6 tests locally or in the k6 Cloud from your IntelliJ IDE.

Aug 08 - Aug 14, 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 11 - Jul 17, 2022

Articles

On maintaining a k6 codebase, Part 1 - Personal tips to maintain a challenging k6 load testing codebase.

Jun 13 - Jun 19, 2022

Tools

k6 Testkube executor

Jun 06 - Jun 12, 2022

Tools

k6-html-reporter (⭐23) - Tool for generating k6 HTML reports.

Apr 11 - Apr 17, 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 - Apr 10, 2022

Examples/Templates

k6-template-es6 (⭐78) - Starter template using Webpack and Babel to enable ES6 features in k6 tests.

Dec 20 - Dec 26, 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 22 - Nov 28, 2021

Articles

Load Testing. k6 + TypeScript + Azure DevOps

Videos

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 Churcher, QA Engineer at Vonage

EveryoneCanContribute cafe: Load Performance Testing with k6

Nov 08 - Nov 14, 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.
- 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.