What are the different ways to output k6 metrics? In this k6 Office Hours, Developer Advocates Marie Cruz and Paul Balogh are joined by Leon York, a Senior Consultant at InfinityWorks, part of Accenture, to discuss how the xk6-output-timestream extension works, his experiences creating a k6 extension, and more!

Links shared:
TestMu Conference 2023: https://www.lambdatest.com/testmuconf-2023?
StarWest Conference 2023: https://starwest.techwell.com/
xk6-output-timestream: https://github.com/leonyork/xk6-output-timestream

⏰ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction

01:24 Announcements

04:40 What does Leon do at InfinityWorks?

08:38 How has k6 been useful to different clients?

12:19 Ways to output k6 results and the reasoning behind AWS Timestream

16:05 Things to consider when using AWS Timestream

18:33 Leon's experience of writing a k6 extension

23:48 Demo of xk6-output-timestream

37:57 Pre-requisites when using the xk6-output-timestream

41:49 Future plans for xk6-output-timestream and demo of distributed load tests on multiple regions in AWS

Contact Leon:
GitHub: https://github.com/leonyork
Site: https://leonyork.com/

Contact Marie:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcruzdrake
Site: https://www.testingwithmarie.com/

Contact Paul:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/javaducky
Site: https://javaducky.com/

Learn more about k6:
Website: https://k6.io
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/k6