As a software engineer here at Grafana Labs, I’ve learned there are two questions that commonly come up when someone begins setting up a new Loki installation: “How many logs can I ingest into my cluster?” followed by, “How fast can I query these logs?” There are two ways to find out the answers.

Rendezvous is a French word commonly used in the load testing word. It sounds so fancy! I believe Mercury first coined and implemented it (I may be wrong) in LoadRunner. NeoLoad has it with the same name, and JMeter calls it Synchronizing timer. But what is it really, and how may we use it? Rendezvous is a function that stops the virtual users when they reach that instruction in the script. The function makes them wait until more virtual users get to that step or a timer runs out.

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to store k6 logs in Loki for long-term storage and further analysis. We'll walk you through the steps to configure Loki in Grafana Cloud and enable k6 to send logs of your k6 tests to Loki.

Hello! Leandro here! Your k6 reporter. Today, we are reporting a story from the field. We just had a week of adventures and magical experiences at the 2022 StarEast event with real-life people for the first time in two years!

When it comes to building and deploying applications, one increasingly popular approach these days is to use microservices in Kubernetes. It provides an easy way to collaborate across organizational boundaries and is a great way to scale. However, it comes with many operational challenges. One big issue is that it’s difficult to test the microservices in real-life scenarios before letting production traffic reach them. But there are ways to get around it.