Documentation Grafana k6 Results output Real time

Real time

Besides the end-of-test summary, you can also view metrics as granular data points. k6 can stream the metrics in real-time and either:

• Write output to a file
• Send output to an external service.

Write to file

Currently, k6 supports writing to the following file formats:

• CSV
• JSON

Stream to service

You can also stream real-time metrics to:

• Grafana Cloud k6

As well as the following third-party services:

• Amazon CloudWatch
• Apache Kafka
• Datadog
• Dynatrace
• Elasticsearch
• Grafana Cloud Prometheus
• InfluxDB
• Netdata
• New Relic
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus remote write
• TimescaleDB
• StatsD
• Other alternative with a custom output extension

Read more

• Ways to visualize k6 results
• k6 data collection pipeline