Nicole van der Hoeven talks about what performance testing is, why it's the other half of observability, and the easiest way to run a test using k6 while seeing the results on Grafana. She mentions integration options, involving the k6 Grafana data source plugin as well as how to utilize Prometheus Remote Write to visualize k6 load testing results along with other metrics to Grafana.
This is a pre-recording walkthrough of the live webinar Nicole did for Grafana Labs on September 16th, 2021. Catch the live webinar recording, including the Q&A, here: [ Ссылка ]
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction and presentation overview
2:13 The case for load testing in pre-production
7:43 What is k6?
11:00 Getting started with k6 (demo)
19:07 What is k6 Cloud? (demo)
26:34 Ways to integrate k6 and Grafana
27:41 How to use the k6 Grafana data source plugin (demo)
30:55 How to use Prometheus Remote Write to get k6 results in Grafana (demo)
35:12 When to use data source plugin vs Prometheus Remote Write integrations
Slides: [ Ссылка ]
Nicole on Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
Learn more about k6:
Website: [ Ссылка ]
Repo: [ Ссылка ]
