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Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2024

Tools

• k6 for IntelliJ - IntelliJ-based Plugin to run and debug [sic!] k6 tests locally or in the k6 Cloud from your IntelliJ IDE.

Aug 26 - Sep 01, 2024

Extensions

• Extension Registry - Curated listing of k6 extensions.

Extensions / Official

• xk6-client-prometheus-remote (⭐27) - Test Prometheus Remote Write performance.

Jul 29 - Aug 04, 2024

Extensions / Official

• xk6-client-tracing (⭐56) - Client for load testing distributed tracing backends.

• xk6-disruptor (⭐110) - Inject faults to test 💣.

• xk6-exec (⭐26) - Run external commands.

• xk6-kubernetes (⭐70) - Interact with Kubernetes clusters.

• xk6-loki (⭐51) - Client for load testing Loki.

• xk6-notification (⭐22) - Create notifications.

• xk6-output-influxdb (⭐76) - Export results to InfluxDB v2.

• xk6-output-kafka (⭐26) - Export k6 results in real-time to Kafka.

• xk6-output-timescaledb (⭐33) - Export k6 results to TimescaleDB.

• xk6-sql (⭐156) - Load-test SQL Servers (PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 for now).

• xk6-ssh (⭐12) - SSH.

Extensions / Community

• xk6-cable (⭐28) - Test Action Cable and AnyCable functionality.

• xk6-coap (⭐16) - Interact with Constrained Application Protocol endpoints.

• xk6-dotenv (⭐33) - Load env vars from a .env file.

• xk6-ethereum (⭐11) - K6 extension for ethereum protocols.

• xk6-faker (⭐100) - Generate random fake data.

• xk6-file (⭐30) - Write files.

• xk6-g0 (⭐39) - Write k6 tests in golang.

• xk6-kafka (⭐182) - Load-test Apache Kafka. Includes support for Avro messages.

• xk6-kv (⭐23) - Share key-value data between VUs.

• xk6-mock (⭐14) - Mock HTTP(S) servers.

• xk6-mqtt (⭐55) - MQTT extension.

• xk6-nats (⭐14) - Provides NATS support for k6 tests.

• xk6-opentelemetry (⭐32) - Generate OpenTelemetry signals from within your test scripts.

• xk6-output-elasticsearch (⭐21) - Export results to Elasticsearch 8.x.

• xk6-output-prometheus-pushgateway (⭐14) - Export results to Prometheus pushgateway.

• xk6-output-statsd (⭐29) - Enables real-time output of test metrics to a StatsD service.

• xk6-output-timestream (⭐18) - Export results to AWS Timestream.

• xk6-playwright (⭐55) - Browser automation and end-to-end web testing using Playwright.

• xk6-prometheus (⭐52) - Prometheus HTTP exporter for k6.

• xk6-prompt (⭐16) - Support for input arguments via UI.

• xk6-sse (⭐26) - A k6 extension for Server-Sent Events (SSE).

• xk6-tcp (⭐19) - Send data to TCP port.

• xk6-top (⭐31) - Updating the current k6 metrics summaries on the terminal during the test run.

Jul 15 - Jul 21, 2024

Articles

• Best practices organizing performance testing projects with k6 - Guidelines to scale your performance testing across multiple teams and projects.
  • Part 2 - JavaScript tools, shared libraries, and TypeScript - Stting up your k6 performance testing suite with JavaScript tools, shared libraries, and TypeScript.

• Open source load testing tool review 2020 - Detailed comparison of the most popular open source load testing tools.

• Load Testing Your API with Postman - How to use Postman collections to load test your API.

• 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.

• 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.

• Distributed Load Testing With K6 - Setting up distributed execution with k6-operator and Argo workflows.

Examples/Templates

• k6 examples - A list of common examples on the k6 documentation.

CI/CD

• k6 for CircleCI

• k6 for GitLab

Extensions

• k6 Extensions

Jun 03 - Jun 09, 2024

Articles

• Distributed load testing with k6 - Thijs Feryn presents in ConFoo Montreal 2023.

Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2024

Articles

• k6 OSS workshop (⭐33) - A 2-3 hour k6 workshop with practical k6 examples using the QuickPizza demo app.

Examples/Templates

• k6 QuickPizza examples (⭐101) - Web application used for demos and workshops with multiple k6 examples.

Jan 15 - Jan 21, 2024

Examples/Templates

• k6-template-es6 (⭐89) - Starter template using Webpack and Babel to enable ES6 features in k6 tests.

• k6-typescript-template (⭐302) - Starter template using Webpack bundler to write k6 tests in TypeScript.

• k6-rollup-example (⭐12) - Example using Rollup to bundle k6 tests.

• Jahmilli/k6-example (⭐11) - Starter template using Vite (Rollup) bundler to write k6 tests in TypeScript.

• agilob/multiscenario-tests - Running multiple scenarios at once.

Jan 08 - Jan 14, 2024

Articles

• Streamlining Performance Testing with K6 and ChatGPT - Monish Correia writes k6 tests using GitHub co-pilot.

Videos

• 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 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

• tom-miseur/k6-templates (⭐36) - Opinionated starter templates for k6 projects.

• SwissLife-OSS/k6-multiscenario-template (⭐54) - Use K6 to implement a Multi Scenario template.

• Im5tu/template-k6 (⭐5) - A K6 Performance Test Suite Template.

• mohsenny/k6-test-template (⭐6) - Load testing framework.

• kwidera/k6_framework (⭐2) - Another k6 framework example.

• Sahanipe/pet_store (⭐2) - Modularized scripts for the Swagger PetStore APIs.

• lreimer/continuous-k6k8s (⭐18) - Continuously run k6 tests in Kubernetes using cronjobs.

• luketn/docker-k6-grafana-influxdb (⭐171) - Demonstrates how to run load tests with containerised instances of K6, Grafana and InfluxDB.

CI/CD

• k6 for Azure Pipelines

• k6 for Bamboo

• k6 for Buddy

• k6 for Flagger

• k6 for GitHub Actions

• k6 for Jenkins

• k6 for Keptn

• k6 for TeamCity

Nov 20 - Nov 26, 2023

Articles

• 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 (⭐56) - 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.

Extensions

• GitHub Topic: xk6 - Explore k6 extensions tagged with the xk6 label.

Related / Community

• How They Load Test (⭐124) - A collection of resources on how companies around the world perform load testing.

• Load Testing Toolkit (⭐203) - A collection of open-source tools for debugging, benchmarking, load and stress testing your code or services.

• awesome-http-benchmark (⭐3.6k) - A collection of HTTP benchmark tools, testing/debugging, & restAPI (RESTful).

Sep 26 - Oct 02, 2022

Articles

• k6 Learn (⭐398) - Explanation of the principles of load testing and practical examples for how to do it with k6.

Aug 29 - Sep 04, 2022

Articles

• How to write three times fewer lines of code when doing load testing - Building a k6 extension in Go to test Tarantool.

• Umbraco 9 - What a Performance! - Test the performance of Umbraco v9 on Azure against Umbraco v8 and comparing Windows vs Linux.

Videos

• How to use k6 Cloud for load testing - A series of quick videos for getting started with k6 Cloud.

Aug 08 - Aug 14, 2022

Tools

• k6-junit (⭐11) - k6 JUnit summary exporter libray.

• k6-expect (⭐2) - k6 library that simplifies writing tests in a functional way by providing a jest-like syntax for expectations.

Jul 11 - Jul 17, 2022

Articles

• On maintaining a k6 codebase, Part 1 - Personal tips to maintain a challenging k6 load testing codebase.

Jun 13 - Jun 19, 2022

Tools

• k6 Testkube executor

Jun 06 - Jun 12, 2022

Tools

• k6-html-reporter (⭐24) - Tool for generating k6 HTML reports.

Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2022

Articles

• Load Testing Your API with Swagger/OpenAPI and k6 - Generate k6 load test scripts from OpenAPI specifications.

Dec 20 - Dec 26, 2021

Articles

• Load Testing with Azure DevOps and k6 - How to setup Azure DevOps to perform automated load tests using k6, handleCallback, and JUnit.

• 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.

Nov 22 - Nov 28, 2021

Articles

• Load Testing. k6 + TypeScript + Azure DevOps

Videos

• 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

Nov 08 - Nov 14, 2021

Articles

• Load testing with k6 - Using k6 for load, soak, stress, spike and smoke testing.

Tools

• har-to-k6 (⭐146) - Tool for converting HAR recordings to k6 test scripts.

• postman-to-k6 (⭐296) - Tool for converting Postman collections to k6 test scripts.

• jmeter-to-k6 (⭐70) - Tool for converting JMeter test cases to k6 test scripts.

CI/CD

• k6 for AWS CodeBuild

• k6 for Google Cloud Build

Oct 25 - Oct 31, 2021

Videos

• k6 YouTube Channel

• Intro to load testing with k6 and Grafana (k6 data source plugin and Prometheus Remote Write)

Oct 04 - Oct 10, 2021

Articles

• K6 — Custom Slack Integration: Metrics are the Magic of Tests - How to send k6 output results to Slack using the handleSummary callback.

Sep 13 - Sep 19, 2021

Articles

• Beginner's guide to load testing with k6 - Introductory guide in several parts, helping you get started with k6.

• Beautiful Load Testing With K6 and Docker Compose - How to run load tests using the awesome combination of Docker Compose, K6, InfluxDB and Grafana.

Mar 22 - Mar 28, 2021

Tools

• k6-reporter (⭐441) - Tool for converting k6 output to HTML reports.

Mar 01 - Mar 07, 2021

Articles

• Load Testing & Black Friday capacity planning - How Back Market prepared for Black Friday with k6 based load testing.

May 04 - May 10, 2020

Tools

• k6 for visual studio code - Marketplace Extension for running k6 directly from your IDE.

Apr 06 - Apr 12, 2020

Tools

• k6 generator (⭐24k) - Tool for converting Swagger/OpenAPI specifications to k6 test scripts.

Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2020

Articles

• 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.

Tools

• k6-to-junit (⭐22) - Tool for converting k6 output to JUnit XML for easy use with CIs.

• jslib.k6.io - Useful utility libs for k6 scripts.