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Documentation Grafana k6 Misc Integrations & Tools

Integrations & Tools

Test authoring

Codeless tools to speed up the test creation.

• Test Builder - Inspired by the Postman API Builder. Codeless UI tool to generate a k6 test quickly.
• Browser Recorder - Record a user journey to create your k6 test.

IDE extensions

Code k6 scripts in your IDE of choice. Empower your development workflow with IDE extensions.

• Visual Studio Code Extension - Run k6 tests from VS Code.
• IntelliJ IDEA - Run k6 tests from IntelliJ IDEs.
• IntelliSense - Get code autocompletion and in-context documentation.

Converters

Generate a k6 script quickly from an existing file.

• HAR-to-k6 - Convert a HAR file to a k6 script.
• Postman-to-k6 - Convert a Postman collection to a k6 script.
• OpenAPI generator - Convert a Swagger/OpenAPI specification to a k6 script.

Result store and visualization

k6 can output test results to various formats and 3rd-party services.

• Amazon CloudWatch
• Apache Kafka
• CSV
• Datadog
• Dynatrace
• Elasticsearch
• Grafana Cloud k6
• Grafana Cloud Prometheus
• Grafana Dashboards
• InfluxDB
• JSON file
• Netdata
• New Relic
• Prometheus
• StatsD
• TimescaleDB

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

By automating load testing with your CI / CD tools, you can quickly see when a code change has introduced a performance regression.

• AWS CodeBuild
• Azure Pipelines
• Bamboo
• Buddy
• CircleCI
• Flagger
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab
• Google Cloud Build
• Jenkins
• Keptn
• TeamCity

Chaos engineering

• Steadybit - Using k6 and Steadybit for chaos engineering.
• xk6-disruptor - A k6 extension for injecting faults into k6 tests.
• ChaosToolkit - A collection of k6 actions and probes.
• LitmusChaos - Simulate load generation to the target application as a part of chaos testing on Kubernetes using Litmus.

Test management

• Azure Test Plan - k6 load testing with Azure DevOps.
• TestRail - Introducing TestRail in your k6 tests.
• Testkube - Load testing with Testkube.
• Tracetest - Trace-based testing with Tracetest.
• Xray - Using Xray to validate test results in JIRA.

Reach out to us if you have a tool or add-on that works well with k6, and we will list it here!