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title: "Performance testing with Grafana Cloud k6 | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Create performance test scripts using JavaScript, run your tests on servers all over the world, and visualize your test results in Grafana Cloud k6."
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# Performance testing

Grafana Cloud k6 provides a fully-managed cloud testing solution that enables engineering teams to implement continuous performance testing. This prevents failures and allows teams to proactively test and improve reliability.

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## Overview

Grafana Cloud k6 is a performance testing application in your Grafana Cloud instance, powered by [k6 OSS](/docs/k6/latest/). It allows you to leverage all of the Grafana k6 OSS capabilities while managing the infrastructure needed for scaling servers, running load tests from multiple locations, storing test results, and providing dashboards to detect performance errors and regressions within your Grafana stack.

- **Correlate testing and observability data in a single pane of glass.**
  
  With k6, you can write load tests to catch performance issues in both production and pre-production environments. With Grafana, you can visualize and compare your k6 test results with other system metrics and your existing dashboards.
  
  Together, Grafana Cloud k6 helps you understand what happens when your system is under load, providing a complete picture for quickly identifying root causes and reliability issues.
- **Bring teams and testing together.**
  
  Since the k6 app is integrated with Grafana Cloud, your testing team can share a platform with other engineering teams using your Grafana stack. This opens new opportunities for collaboration, communication, and discovery.
  
  For example, a test might correlate results with panels initially used only by SRE teams. Additionally, you could automate test execution for other teams to identify regressions in their dashboards, fostering the collaboration in maintaining the performance testing suite.

## Explore

[Introduction  
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Learn more about the benefits of Grafana Cloud k6, how it works, and how you can use it to test and improve the reliability of your applications.](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/k6/introduction/)

[Run your first cloud tests  
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Get started running your first cloud test and visualizing performance results in Grafana Cloud.](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/k6/get-started/)

[Run tests from your private network  
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Learn how to run distributed tests within your private network and send results to Grafana Cloud.](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/k6/author-run/private-load-zone-v2/)

[Analyze performance results  
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Dive into your test results and performance insights, and learn how to correlate testing results.](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/k6/analyze-results/)

[Manage performance testing projects  
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Learn how to organize your k6 tests into projects and use roles to control their access.](/docs/grafana-cloud/testing/k6/projects-and-users/)