Awesome k6 
A collection of content by the community, on (testing with) k6.
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Contents
Extensions
- GitHub Topic: xk6 - Explore k6 extensions tagged with the xk6 label.
Articles
- Beginner's guide to load testing with k6 - Introductory guide in several parts, helping you get started with k6.
- Load Testing with k6 - Brief overview of features and capabilities of k6.
- Integrating k6 with Apache Kafka - Sending output from k6 to Apache Kafka.
- 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
- Load Testing. k6 + TypeScript + Azure DevOps
- 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.
- How to build performance tests into your CI pipeline with k6, GitHub Actions, and Grafana - From the Grafana blog: a summary of Matthew Churcher's ObservabilityCon 2021 talk, Vonage QA Architect.
- 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.
- On maintaining a k6 codebase, Part 1 - Personal tips to maintain a challenging k6 load testing codebase.
Videos
- k6 YouTube Channel
- Intro to load testing with k6 and Grafana (k6 data source plugin and Prometheus Remote Write)
- 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
- 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.
Reference Projects
- k6-circleci-example - Running k6 load tests as part of a CircleCI build.
- k6-jenkins-example - Running k6 load tests as part of a Jenkins build.
- k6-github-actions-example - Running k6 load tests as part of a GitHub Actions build.
- k6-azure-pipelines-example - Running k6 load tests as part of an Azure DevOps Pipeline.
- k6-bitbucket-pipelines-example - Running k6 load tests as part of a Bitbucket Pipeline build.
- k6-performance-test-websocket - Example of performance test for websocket with k6.
- k6-typescript-template - Template to use TypeScript with k6.
- k6-template-es6 - Template repository for bundling test projects into single test scripts runnable by k6.
- example-data-generation - Generate realistic data for k6 using faker.
- bounded-disturbances - A .NET Chaos Engineering workshop. Using Simmy and k6.
- continuous-k6k8s - Continuously run k6 tests in Kubernetes using cronjobs.
- k6-multiscenario-template - Use K6 to implement a Multi Scenario template.
- 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 Testkube executor
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.
- 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.
- k6 for Atlassian Bamboo
- k6 for AWS CodeBuild
- k6 for Google Cloud Build
- k6 for Buddy CI/CD
Stacks
- CloudPosse's Load Testing Stack - 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.