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Our exciting next step - k6 is now part of Grafana Labs!

It's been a few weeks since Raj Dutt, Grafana Labs CEO and Co-Founder, announced the k6 acquisition during the closing session of GrafanaCONline 2021. You can learn more by reading our joint press release, or by watching the recording of the k6 Office Hours I joined the day after the announcement. With this blog I would like to share my excitement and my perspective. The acquisition marks a milestone for the k6 team, our customers, and the k6 community.

OctoPerf v12.4 - Integrate with Postman, Microsoft Teams, Grafana and Dynatrace

The focus of OctoPerf 12.4 is on integrations, first in regards to creating test scripts through our new Postman import released a few weeks ago. Through postman we also open OctoPerf to swagger and open API imports. Microsoft Teams is also on the menu in terms of alerting before/after the tests, but the main dish is the backend listeners. Through these you can have our load generators send metrics to your own database in real time during the test.

A Beginner's Guide To Test Automation With Javascript(Nightwatch.js). Part 3.

Welcome to the “A beginners guide to test automation with Javascript(Nightwatch.js)” blog series part 3! If you have missed out on the previous parts, make sure to read part 1: Introduction to Nightwatch.js and part 2: The most useful Nightwatch.js commands in our blog. In this article we will look at callback functions and command queue in Nightwatch.js, and as always – feel free to skip to any part you are the most interested in.

Loadero quickstart tutorial. Part 3. Adding participant groups to a test.

Part 3 of our quickstart tutorial series will guide you through the process of adding a participant group to your test in Loadero and explain how group structure can be helpful. Follow the steps described to create and configure test participant groups for your needs.

Grafana Labs Brings Modern Open Source Load Testing to Observability with Acquisition of k6

NEW YORK, June 17, 2021 - On the final day of GrafanaCONline 2021, CEO Raj Dutt today announced Grafana Labs’ acquisition of k6, the Stockholm-based startup behind the open source load testing tool for engineering teams. With k6, Grafana Labs adds extensible testing to its open and composable Grafana observability stack.

Getting Started with Performance Testing in CI/CD Using k6

In this article, we’ll showcase how to use k6 for performance testing within CI/CD pipelines. We’ll be using a playground we set up for this purpose and lead you through the necessary steps to get a feel for how it works, and hopefully by the end you’ll start thinking about how to implement this in your own projects.

Performance, Stress, and Load Tests in Rails

Tests are an integral part of most well-working Rails applications where maintenance isn’t a nightmare and new features are consistently added, or existing ones are improved. Unfortunately, for many applications, a production environment is where they are put under heavy workload or significant traffic for the first time. This is understandable as such tests are costly.

Making k6 extensions using xk6, with Iván Szkiba and Mihail Stoykov (k6 Office Hours)

In this office hours, Nicole and Simme are joined by Iván Szkiba, a system architect at NNG LCC, and Mihail Stoikov, a software engineer at k6, to talk about how to make a k6 extension. We also discuss the rationale behind extensions Iván has created and how to get started if you're thinking about making an extension as well.