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Testing and synthetics

Performance testing

Reference pages

Query types

Grafana Cloud

Query types

The k6 data source includes the following query types.

Metrics

Metrics measure the System Under Test (SUT) performance, expressed as rates, counters, gauges, or trends.

The panel displays a line chart representing the metric’s values during the test run.

A panel with a line chart showing the average HTTP response time of the selected test run

Trace metrics

Telemetry tracing metrics captured during the test run.

A panel with a line chart showing the span duration and exemplars captured during the test run

You can hover over an exemplar to delve deeper into a specific trace.

Tests

A list of tests within the selected project.

Selecting the items in the Name column takes you to the test page, while selecting the items in the Last run column takes you to the latest test run results.