Awesome k6

Open-source, developer-centric performance monitoring and load testing solution, k6.

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Contents

• Extensions
• Articles
• Videos
• Reference Projects
• Tools
• CI
• Stacks

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.

Videos

• 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.
• 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.

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-es6 - Example project using Webpack, Babel and Browserify to make most ES6 code work in 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

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-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.

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.

Stacks

• CloudPosse’s Load Testing Stack - Load testing stack using k6, Grafana and InfluxDB.
• Load Impact’s OSS Load Testing Stack - Open-source stack that works well for running load tests, storing results and visualizing those results in dashboards.