Awesome k6 
A collection of resources by the community, on (testing with) k6.
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Awesome k6
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
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.
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.
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.
Streamlining Performance Testing with K6 and ChatGPT
Monish Correia writes k6 tests using GitHub co-pilot.
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Part 2 - JavaScript tools, shared libraries, and TypeScript - Stting up your k6 performance testing suite with JavaScript tools, shared libraries, and TypeScript.
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Real-time stress:
AnyCable, k6, WebSockets, and Yabeda - Evil Martians adding "real-time stress" with k6 and WebSockets.
Videos
How to use k6 Cloud for load testing
A series of quick videos for getting started with k6 Cloud.
- 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.
Examples/Templates
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.
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 \[sic!\] k6 tests locally or in the [k6 Cloud](https://app.k6.io/) from your IntelliJ IDE.
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
GitHub Topic: xk6
Explore k6 extensions tagged with the xk6 label.
Extension Registry
Curated listing of k6 extensions.
Official
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.
Community
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.