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Export test results

Your Grafana Cloud k6 test results provide a comprehensive overview of your application performance trends, which can help you detect patterns and uncover performance issues.

You can export your test results in two formats:

• A Grafana dashboard summary, which can then be exported as a PDF.
• A CSV file.

Export as Grafana dashboard summary

You can export your test results as a dashboard to track and share your data with other team members. The exported dashboard serves as an executive summary of the test results’ most relevant metrics and performance data.

Before you begin

• You must have a Grafana Cloud account with the dashboards:create or dashboards:write permission.
  • If you only have the dashboards:create permission, you can only export summaries to the root folder.

For more information, refer to RBAC permissions, actions, and scopes.

Export summary to dashboard

To export a summary:

1. Navigate to a specific test result.
2. Click the three-dots icon in the top right corner to open the test results menu.
3. Select Export summary.

This action opens a dialog box where you can choose a name and destination for the summary and customize its layout.

Choose a folder

Under Folder, you can select the folder where your dashboard should be created.

You can also create a folder by selecting the Folder field, typing in the new folder name, and selecting Create in a new folder called.

Change layout

The editor includes several sections that you can include or exclude from your summary. Each section represents a time series graph for that metric over the test run time.

To customize the data included in the summary:

1. Expand the Sections section in the export dialog box.
2. Select the sections you want to include/exclude.

Summaries can contain HTTP and browser results. Different options are available depending on the data available in your test run.

If your test has HTTP data, the sections include:

If your test has browser data, the sections include:

Additional options

You can find additional options under Options.

Edit summary and share as PDF

After generating the summary dashboard, you can edit and share it like any other dashboard.

For instance, you can share the summary as a PDF by using the PDF export feature in Grafana.

Export as CSV

To export a test result as a CSV file:

1. Select the test result you want to export.
2. Click the three-dots icon in the top-right, and select Export data.
   1. If you have already exported the data from a test result, you’ll see a Download export data option instead.
3. Click Confirm in the dialog box.

Depending on your test result, the CSV export might take some time. You can:

• Wait for the dialog box to update, and click Download once the report is ready, or;
• Close the tab and download the report when it’s ready by going to the test result page, clicking the three-dots icon in the top right, and selecting Download export data.

The exported data you can download is a ZIP file that contains a number of CSV files.

Each metric, such as VUs and HTTP requests, has its own separate file. The export also contains a metrics.csv file with the list of exported metrics.

A typical k6 HTTP test includes the following files:

The following table is a reference for the columns in the CSV data, with examples, data types, and descriptions.