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Integrations

k6 integrates with a wide ecosystem of tools for monitoring, visualization, CI/CD, and more.

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Observability and monitoring

Grafana

Visualize k6 metrics in Grafana dashboards with InfluxDB, Prometheus, or k6 Cloud.

Prometheus

Export k6 metrics to Prometheus for long-term storage and alerting.
k6 run --out experimental-prometheus-rw script.js

InfluxDB

Stream real-time metrics to InfluxDB for analysis and visualization.
k6 run --out influxdb=http://localhost:8086 script.js

Datadog

Send k6 metrics to Datadog for unified observability.
k6 run --out datadog script.js

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CI/CD platforms

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GitHub Actions

Use the official k6 action: 
name: Load Test
on: [push]

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: grafana/[email protected]
        with:
          filename: test.js
          flags: --vus 50 --duration 10s

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GitLab CI

load_test:
  image: grafana/k6:latest
  script:
    - k6 run test.js
  artifacts:
    reports:
      junit: summary.xml

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Jenkins

pipeline {
  agent any
  stages {
    stage('Load Test') {
      steps {
        sh 'k6 run --out json=results.json test.js'
      }
    }
  }
}

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CircleCI

version: 2.1
jobs:
  load-test:
    docker:
      - image: grafana/k6:latest
    steps:
      - checkout
      - run: k6 run test.js

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Test generation

k6 Studio

Desktop app for recording and generating k6 scripts from browser interactions.

Postman

Convert Postman collections to k6 scripts:
postman-to-k6 collection.json -o script.js

HAR files

Generate tests from HAR (HTTP Archive) files:
har-to-k6 archive.har -o script.js

OpenAPI

Generate tests from OpenAPI specifications:
openapi-generator generate -g k6 -i api.yaml

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Cloud platforms

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Grafana Cloud k6

Run tests in the cloud with built-in dashboards and insights: 
k6 cloud script.js
Learn more about Grafana Cloud k6

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AWS

  • Run k6 on EC2 instances for distributed testing
  • Use AWS Lambda with k6 for serverless testing
  • Store results in CloudWatch or S3

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Azure

  • Deploy k6 using Azure Container Instances
  • Use Azure Load Testing (powered by k6)
  • Stream metrics to Azure Monitor

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Google Cloud

  • Run k6 on GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)
  • Use Cloud Run for serverless k6 tests
  • Export metrics to Cloud Monitoring

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Kubernetes

k6-operator

Run distributed k6 tests on Kubernetes clusters.
apiVersion: k6.io/v1alpha1
kind: K6
metadata:
  name: k6-sample
spec:
  parallelism: 4
  script:
    configMap:
      name: test-script
Learn more about distributed testing

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Test data and mocking

Generate realistic test data:
import { Faker } from 'https://esm.sh/@faker-js/faker';

const faker = new Faker();

export default function () {
  const user = {
    name: faker.person.fullName(),
    email: faker.internet.email(),
  };
}
Mock REST APIs for testing:
# Start mock server
json-server --watch db.json

# Test against it
k6 run test.js
Stub HTTP services:
import http from 'k6/http';

export default function () {
  http.get('http://localhost:8080/api/users');
}

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Reporting

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HTML reports

Generate HTML reports from k6 results: 
k6 run --out json=results.json script.js
k6-reporter results.json

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JUnit reports

For CI/CD integration: 
import { jUnit, textSummary } from 'https://jslib.k6.io/k6-summary/0.0.1/index.js';

export function handleSummary(data) {
  return {
    'stdout': textSummary(data, { indent: ' ', enableColors: true }),
    'summary.xml': jUnit(data),
  };
}

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CSV/JSON export

Export metrics to files: 
k6 run --out csv=results.csv script.js
k6 run --out json=results.json script.js

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Notification and alerting

Slack

Send test results to Slack channels.

PagerDuty

Trigger incidents on test failures.

Email

Email test summaries and alerts.

Webhooks

POST results to custom endpoints.

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Extensions ecosystem

k6 has a rich extension ecosystem for specialized testing needs.
Explore k6 extensions

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Community tools

  • k6-jslib-utils - Utility functions for k6 scripts
  • k6-jslib-aws - AWS SDK for k6
  • k6-jslib-httpx - Enhanced HTTP client
  • k6-chaijs - Chai assertions for k6

Automated testing

CI/CD integration guide

Results output

Exporting and visualizing results

Extensions

Extending k6 functionality

Grafana Cloud k6

Cloud-based test execution

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