Destination reached!

Congratulations on completing this journey! Job well done!

We hope you’ve enjoyed traveling with us as you:

• Learned the value of performance testing with k6 for identifying issues before they reach production
• Installed k6 on your machine using your preferred package manager or installation method
• Wrote your first k6 test script with HTTP requests and test configuration
• Ran a k6 test locally and viewed results in your terminal
• Sent test results to Grafana Cloud for cloud-based visualization
• Analyzed test results in Grafana Cloud dashboards to understand performance metrics

You now have the foundational knowledge to create and run k6 performance tests. You can use this knowledge to test your applications, identify performance bottlenecks, and ensure your systems can handle real-world traffic.

What’s next?

Continue your k6 learning by exploring:

• In-product onboarding: In Grafana Cloud, go to Testing & synthetics > Performance and use the interactive onboarding to try k6 Studio, OpenAPI to k6, running tests from the UI or CLI, and understanding results—all without leaving the app.

• Advanced test scripting: Learn to write more complex test scenarios with multiple requests, data parameterization, and custom logic

• Thresholds and checks: Configure performance thresholds and assertions to automatically validate test results

• Distributed testing: Scale your tests across multiple machines or Kubernetes clusters for higher load

• Browser testing: Use k6 browser to test web applications with real browser automation

• CI/CD integration: Add k6 tests to your continuous integration pipeline

Keep testing, and happy load testing!