K6

Introduction

Grafana k6 is a developer-friendly and extensible load testing tool that helps prevent performance issues and improve reliability. Learn how to use k6 for load, browser, synthetic, and chaos testing, and integrate it with CI/CD and Grafana Cloud.

Installation

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys C5AD17C747E3415A3642D57D77C6C491D6AC1D69
echo "deb https://dl.k6.io/deb stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/k6.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install k6

Documentation

https://grafana.com/docs/k6/latest

Usage

Create your javascript text file and save it as test.js ...

import http from 'k6/http';
import { sleep } from 'k6';
export const options = {
  vus: 10,
  duration: '30s',
  cloud: {
    // Project: Default project
    projectID: 3712985,
    // Test runs with the same name groups test runs together.
    name: 'Test (06/09/2024-14:52:36)'
  }
};
export default function() {
  http.get('https://test.k6.io');
  sleep(1);
}

Run it ...

k6 cloud run test.js

View the results in your Grafana Admin pages online ...

https://yourusername.grafana.net/a/k6-app