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title: "Get started with Grafana Cloud k6 | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Steps to run your first Grafana Cloud k6 performance test quickly."
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# Get started with Grafana Cloud k6

There are multiple ways to create and run a performance test in Grafana Cloud k6.

For a hands-on introduction, refer to [Getting started with k6 performance testing](/docs/learning-hub/k6-performance-testing/).

Start your learning experience with Grafana Learning Paths

Grafana Learning Paths provide a clear, structured path that leads you from beginner concepts to advanced use cases. Learn about this Grafana feature on [Run your first k6 performance test](/docs/learning-paths/run-first-k6-test/).

[Start learning](https://grafana.com/docs/learning-paths/run-first-k6-test/)

## Open Performance testing

When you open **Testing & synthetics** > **Performance**, you land on the Performance home page. Use it to open a project, start a new test, see test runs in progress, and open support and learning links.

Every stack has a **Default project**, so you can create and run tests without creating a project first. To organize tests by team or service, refer to [Manage projects](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/k6/projects-and-users/projects/).

Each tutorial in this section can walk you through a different use case, depending on your needs:

- [Run your first tests](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/k6/get-started/run-your-first-tests/) can help you run a performance test from Grafana Cloud by using the Test Builder. No command-line tool installation or coding required.
- [Run cloud tests from the CLI](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/k6/get-started/run-cloud-tests-from-the-cli/) can walk you through the steps required to install k6 OSS on your machine, and the different ways you can run a test locally or on the cloud.
- [Run your first browser tests](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/k6/get-started/run-your-first-browser-tests/) can walk you through using the browser capabilities of k6, so you can write tests that interact with your website and measure its performance.
- [Create browser tests from plain-language user journeys](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/agentic-testing/create-browser-tests-from-plain-language-user-journeys/) shows how to use Agentic testing to define, run, and review functional browser tests without writing test scripts.

After you run your first performance test, you can explore how to [schedule a test](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/k6/author-run/schedule-a-test/), or how to [correlate your test results in Grafana](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/k6/analyze-results/correlate-results-in-grafana/).