Grafana Cloud Performance testing Get started

Get started with Grafana Cloud k6

In these topics, learn the minimum needed to run tests and use Grafana k6 Cloud.

Here’s the essential information:

• Requirements. To run cloud tests on the CLI, you need an API token and k6 OSS installed.

  You can write author test with a GUI, but for to use the full power of k6, it helps to know the OSS API.

• Install. The k6 app comes with the latest Grafana instances.

• Author Tests. Create tests in the graphical Test Builder, or write them in your code editor.

• Configure cloud execution. Use cloud options to set load zones and environment variables.

• Run tests. Run from the app or from the CLI.

• Analyze results. Every test has a visualization of test metrics. You can also move k6 results to other dashboards to correlate test results with other system metrics.

The following articles will help you to get started:

• Run your first tests
• Run cloud tests from the CLI
• Run your first browser tests
• VU hours

• Inspect test results in Grafana Cloud