Important: This documentation is about an older version. It's relevant only to the release noted, many of the features and functions have been updated or replaced. Please view the current version.
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:
Stream to service
You can also stream real-time metrics to:
As well as the following third-party services:
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Apache Kafka
- Datadog
- Dynatrace
- Elasticsearch
- Grafana Cloud Prometheus
- InfluxDB
- Netdata
- New Relic
- Prometheus remote write
- TimescaleDB
- StatsD
- Other alternative with a custom output extension
Note
This list applies to local tests, not to cloud tests.