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A collection of resources by the community, on (testing with) <a href="https://k6.io/">k6</a>.

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## Contents
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- [k6 Learn](https://github.com/grafana/k6-learn) - Explanation of the principles of load testing and practical examples for how to do it with k6.
- [k6 OSS workshop](https://github.com/grafana/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](https://link.medium.com/npI9sjDyyjb) - Introductory guide in several parts, helping you get started with k6.
- [Best practices organizing performance testing projects with k6](https://grafana.com/blog/2024/04/30/organizing-your-grafana-k6-performance-testing-suite-best-practices-to-get-started/) - Guidelines to scale your performance testing across multiple teams and projects.
- [Part 2 - JavaScript tools, shared libraries, and TypeScript](https://grafana.com/blog/2024/05/02/setting-up-your-grafana-k6-performance-testing-suite-javascript-tools-shared-libraries-and-more/).
- [Best practices organizing performance testing projects with k6](https://grafana.com/blog/2024/04/30/organizing-your-grafana-k6-performance-testing-suite-best-practices-to-get-started/) - Guidelines to scale your performance testing across multiple teams and projects.
- [Part 2 - JavaScript tools, shared libraries, and TypeScript](https://grafana.com/blog/2024/05/02/setting-up-your-grafana-k6-performance-testing-suite-javascript-tools-shared-libraries-and-more/) - Stting up your k6 performance testing suite with JavaScript tools, shared libraries, and TypeScript.
- [Distributed load testing with k6](https://feryn.eu/presentations/distributed-load-testing-k6-confoo23) - Thijs Feryn presents in ConFoo Montreal 2023.
- [Load Testing with k6](https://medium.com/@dan.ryan.emmons/qa-load-testing-with-k6-io-c11c2afced04) - Brief overview of features and capabilities of k6.
- [Integrating k6 with Apache Kafka](https://k6.io/blog/integrating-k6-with-apache-kafka) - Sending output from k6 to Apache Kafka.
- [Test and visualize with InfluxDB, Grafana and K6](https://medium.com/@naoko.reeves/load-test-with-k6-and-visualize-with-influxdb-and-grafana-c6097a6f6d0a) - Setting up load tests and visualizing them using grafana dashboards.
- [Open source load testing tool review 2020](https://k6.io/blog/comparing-best-open-source-load-testing-tools) - Detailed comparison of the most popular open source load testing tools.
- [Open source load testing tool review 2020](https://grafana.com/blog/2020/03/03/open-source-load-testing-tool-review/) - Detailed comparison of the most popular open source load testing tools.
- [Load Testing Your API with Swagger/OpenAPI and k6](https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-your-api-with-swagger-openapi-and-k6) - Generate k6 load test scripts from OpenAPI specifications.
- [Load Testing Your API with Postman](https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-with-postman-collections/) - How to use Postman collections to load test your API.
- [Load Testing Your API with Postman](https://grafana.com/blog/2020/04/19/load-testing-your-api-with-postman/) - How to use Postman collections to load test your API.
- [Load Testing & Black Friday capacity planning](https://medium.com/back-market-engineering/how-back-market-sres-prepared-for-black-friday-5f017f343408) - How Back Market prepared for Black Friday with k6 based load testing.
- [Load Testing SQL Databases with k6](https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-sql-databases-with-k6/) - How to use the xk6-sql extension to test SQL databases directly.
- [Introducing TestRail in your K6 tests](https://dev.to/kwidera/introducing-testrail-in-you-k6-tests-eck) - Reporting k6 output to TestRail.
- [Load Testing SQL Databases with k6](https://grafana.com/blog/2021/07/14/load-testing-sql-databases/) - How to use the xk6-sql extension to test SQL databases directly.
- [Introducing TestRail in your K6 tests](https://dev.to/kwidera/introducing-testrail-in-you-k6-tests-eck) - Reporting k6 output to TestRail.
- [Beautiful Load Testing With K6 and Docker Compose](https://medium.com/swlh/beautiful-load-testing-with-k6-and-docker-compose-4454edb3a2e3) - How to run load tests using the awesome combination of Docker Compose, K6, InfluxDB and Grafana.
- [Load Testing with Azure DevOps and k6](https://medium.com/microsoftazure/load-testing-with-azure-devops-and-k6-839be039b68a) - 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](https://medium.com/geekculture/k6-custom-slack-integration-metrics-are-the-magic-of-tests-527aaf613595) - How to send k6 output results to Slack using the handleSummary callback.
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- [Load Testing. k6 + TypeScript + Azure DevOps](https://alex-klaus.com/load-test-k6-typescript-azure/)
- [Performance testing with k6](https://blog.shanelee.name/2021/12/15/performance-testing-with-k6/) - On API performance testing, with Open API and TypeScript.
- [k6 introduces browser automation and Prometheus support in k6 OSS](https://grafana.com/blog/2021/11/24/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](https://grafana.com/blog/2021/12/06/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.
- [Testing shift left observability with the Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, and k6](https://grafana.com/blog/2021/12/06/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!](https://moriyama.co.uk/about-us/news/blog-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](https://filfreire.com/posts/k6_tricks_ep1) - Personal tips to maintain a challenging k6 load testing codebase.
- [Distributed Load Testing With K6](https://engineering.empathy.co/distributed-load-testing-with-k6/) - Setting up distributed execution with k6-operator and Argo workflows.
- [Distributed Load Testing With K6](https://engineering.empathy.co/distributed-load-testing-with-k6/) - Setting up distributed execution with k6-operator and Argo workflows.
- [Load testing with k6 and k8s](https://www.toucantoco.com/en/tech-blog/tech-blog/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](https://github.com/cloudposse/load-testing) - Load testing stack using k6, Grafana and InfluxDB.
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- [EveryoneCanContribute cafe: Load Performance Testing with k6](https://youtu.be/_ty40gSaaw8)
- [Playlist - What others says about k6](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdv3RhAQXNExTjuYN9ukawFHB7ucuejp)
- [What is K6 & How to get started with k6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAq87eZ1w2U) - Tutorial using k6 Extensions for Observability by "Is it Observable?"
- [Website Performance + Load Testing with K6 (k6.io) in 5 MINUTES!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brasMBAezJY) - Introductory overview of k6, showing how to create a test from a HAR file, by the DevOps Directive.
- [Website Performance + Load Testing with K6 (k6.io) in 5 MINUTES!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brasMBAezJY) - 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu1K2ZGJ_K4) - 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQmItkazLOk) - Daniel Knittl-Frank @TechTalk Days 2021, Intro to k6.
- [Application Load Testing with k6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQmItkazLOk) - Daniel Knittl-Frank @TechTalk Days 2021, Intro to k6.
- [Performance Testing From Zero to Hero with K6 & Azure](https://youtu.be/71N4_2Fv3I4?si=4eoRcvQfXNJR4aaa) - Jose Luis Latorre Millas at NDC Oslo 2021.
- [AI-Powered K6 Testing: No Code, No Hassle, Just ChatGPT! 🦾🚀](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYyPduBqGM4) - In this video, Karthik K.K. demonstrates how ChatGPT can create k6 tests without writing a single line of code.

## Examples/Templates

- [k6 examples](https://k6.io/docs/examples/) - A list of common examples on the k6 documentation.
- [k6 examples](https://grafana.com/docs/k6/latest/examples/) - A list of common examples on the k6 documentation.
- [k6 QuickPizza examples](https://github.com/grafana/quickpizza) - Web application used for demos and workshops with multiple k6 examples.
- [k6-template-es6](https://github.com/grafana/k6-template-es6) - Starter template using Webpack and Babel to enable ES6 features in k6 tests.
- [k6-typescript-template](https://github.com/grafana/k6-template-typescript) - Starter template using Webpack bundler to write k6 tests in TypeScript.
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- [k6 for Azure Pipelines](https://k6.io/blog/integrating-load-testing-with-azure-pipelines/)
- [k6 for Bamboo](https://k6.io/blog/integrating-k6-with-bamboo/)
- [k6 for Buddy](https://k6.io/blog/integrating-k6-with-buddy-devops/)
- [k6 for CircleCI](https://k6.io/blog/integrating-load-testing-with-circleci/)
- [k6 for CircleCI](https://grafana.com/blog/2022/03/06/load-testing-with-circleci/)
- [k6 for Flagger](https://grafana.com/blog/2022/04/28/deployment-time-testing-with-grafana-k6-and-flagger/)
- [k6 for GitHub Actions](https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-using-github-actions/)
- [k6 for GitLab](https://k6.io/blog/integrating-load-testing-with-gitlab/)
- [k6 for GitLab](https://grafana.com/blog/2020/09/27/load-testing-with-gitlab/)
- [k6 for Google Cloud Build](https://k6.io/blog/integrating-k6-with-google-cloud-build/)
- [k6 for Jenkins](https://k6.io/blog/integrating-load-testing-with-jenkins/)
- [k6 for Keptn](https://k6.io/blog/performance-testing-in-keptn-using-k6/)
- [k6 for TeamCity](https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-using-teamcity-and-k6/)



## Extensions

- [k6 Extensions](https://k6.io/docs/extensions/)
- [k6 Extensions](https://grafana.com/docs/k6/latest/extensions/)
- [GitHub Topic: xk6](https://github.com/topics/xk6) - Explore k6 extensions tagged with the xk6 label.

## Related
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## Contributing

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Want to help in making this list better? Yay, that's awesome! Before you get started though, please have a look at our [code of conduct](code_of_conduct.md) and [contribution guidelines](contributing.md).
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