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Awesome k6 Awesome

A collection of resources by the community, on (testing with) <a href="https://k6.io/">k6</a>.

Contributions are welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

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Contents

Articles

  • 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](https://link.medium.com/npI9sjDyyjb) - Introductory guide in several parts, helping you get started with k6.

  • [Best practices organizing performance testing projects with k6](https://grafana.com/blog/2024/04/30/organizing-your-grafana-k6-performance-testing-suite-best-practices-to-get-started/) - Guidelines to scale your performance testing across multiple teams and projects.

    • [Part 2 - JavaScript tools, shared libraries, and TypeScript](https://grafana.com/blog/2024/05/02/setting-up-your-grafana-k6-performance-testing-suite-javascript-tools-shared-libraries-and-more/) - Stting up your k6 performance testing suite with JavaScript tools, shared libraries, and TypeScript.

  • [Distributed load testing with k6](https://feryn.eu/presentations/distributed-load-testing-k6-confoo23) - Thijs Feryn presents in ConFoo Montreal 2023.

  • [Load Testing with k6](https://medium.com/@dan.ryan.emmons/qa-load-testing-with-k6-io-c11c2afced04) - Brief overview of features and capabilities of k6.

  • [Test and visualize with InfluxDB, Grafana and K6](https://medium.com/@naoko.reeves/load-test-with-k6-and-visualize-with-influxdb-and-grafana-c6097a6f6d0a) - Setting up load tests and visualizing them using grafana dashboards.

  • [Open source load testing tool review 2020](https://grafana.com/blog/2020/03/03/open-source-load-testing-tool-review/) - Detailed comparison of the most popular open source load testing tools.

  • [Load Testing Your API with Swagger/OpenAPI and k6](https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-your-api-with-swagger-openapi-and-k6) - Generate k6 load test scripts from OpenAPI specifications.

  • [Load Testing Your API with Postman](https://grafana.com/blog/2020/04/19/load-testing-your-api-with-postman/) - How to use Postman collections to load test your API.

  • [Load Testing & Black Friday capacity planning](https://medium.com/back-market-engineering/how-back-market-sres-prepared-for-black-friday-5f017f343408) - How Back Market prepared for Black Friday with k6 based load testing.

  • [Load Testing SQL Databases with k6](https://grafana.com/blog/2021/07/14/load-testing-sql-databases/) - 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](https://medium.com/swlh/beautiful-load-testing-with-k6-and-docker-compose-4454edb3a2e3) - How to run load tests using the awesome combination of Docker Compose, K6, InfluxDB and Grafana.

  • [Load Testing with Azure DevOps and k6](https://medium.com/microsoftazure/load-testing-with-azure-devops-and-k6-839be039b68a) - 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](https://medium.com/geekculture/k6-custom-slack-integration-metrics-are-the-magic-of-tests-527aaf613595) - How to send k6 output results to Slack using the handleSummary callback.

  • [Load testing with k6](https://levelup.gitconnected.com/load-testing-with-k6-48488c7946bb) - 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](https://alex-klaus.com/load-test-k6-typescript-azure/)

  • [Performance testing with k6](https://blog.shanelee.name/2021/12/15/performance-testing-with-k6/) - On API performance testing, with Open API and TypeScript.

  • [k6 introduces browser automation and Prometheus support in k6 OSS](https://grafana.com/blog/2021/11/24/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](https://engineering.empathy.co/distributed-load-testing-with-k6/) - Setting up distributed execution with k6-operator and Argo workflows.

  • [Load testing with k6 and k8s](https://www.toucantoco.com/en/tech-blog/tech-blog/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](https://github.com/cloudposse/load-testing) - 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](https://medium.com/@monish.correia/streamlining-performance-testing-with-k6-and-chatgpt-206c6c7db82b) - Monish Correia writes k6 tests using GitHub co-pilot.

Videos

  • 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)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFsIgbqXbxM)
  • [From Grafana ObservabilityCON: Intro to using k6 load testing with the Grafana observability stack](https://grafana.com/go/observabilitycon/2021/k6-load-testing/)
  • 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](https://youtu.be/_ty40gSaaw8)
  • 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!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brasMBAezJY) - 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu1K2ZGJ_K4) - 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQmItkazLOk) - Daniel Knittl-Frank @TechTalk Days 2021, Intro to k6.
    • [Performance Testing From Zero to Hero with K6 & Azure](https://youtu.be/71N4_2Fv3I4?si=4eoRcvQfXNJR4aaa) - Jose Luis Latorre Millas at NDC Oslo 2021.
    • [AI-Powered K6 Testing: No Code, No Hassle, Just ChatGPT! 🦾🚀](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYyPduBqGM4) - In this video, Karthik K.K. demonstrates how ChatGPT can create k6 tests without writing a single line of code.

Examples/Templates

Tools

  • 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
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    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.

CI/CD

Extensions

Official

Community

  • How They Load Test - A collection of resources on how companies around the world perform load testing.
  • [Load Testing Toolkit](https://github.com/aliesbelik/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).

Contributing

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