Documentation Grafana k6 Results output Real time Dynatrace

Dynatrace

With the Dynatrace k6 extension, you can send visualize and correlate performance testing metrics with the other metrics that you monitor in Dynatrace.

Build the k6 version

To build a k6 binary with the extension, first, make sure you have Go and Git installed on your machine.

Then, open your terminal and run the following commands:

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# Install xk6
go install go.k6.io/xk6/cmd/xk6@latest

# Build the k6 binary
xk6 build --with github.com/Dynatrace/xk6-output-dynatrace

... [INFO] Build environment ready
... [INFO] Building k6
... [INFO] Build complete: ./k6

xk6 will create the new k6 binary in the local folder.

Run the test

Create a Dynatrace API token to send the data.

You can use the Dynatrace UI:

Or a curl command (replace <environment-id> and the Api-Token):

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curl -X POST "https://<environment-id>.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/apiTokens" -H "accept: application/json; charset=utf-8" -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" -d "{\"name\":\"\",\"scopes\":[\"metrics.ingest\"]}" -H "Authorization: Api-Token XXXXXXXX"

Use the previously built k6 binary and run the test passing the Dynatrace URL and API token as follows:

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# export dynatrace variables
export K6_DYNATRACE_URL=https://<environmentid>.live.dynatrace.com
export K6_DYNATRACE_APITOKEN=<Dynatrace API token>

# run the test
./k6 run script.js -o output-dynatrace

Check the metrics in your Dynatrace environment, filtering for k6:

Options

When streaming the k6 results to Dynatrace, you can configure the following Dynatrace options: