The best developer experience for performance testing
Grafana Cloud k6 is the modern performance testing platform that brings cross-functional teams together to prevent system failures and consistently deliver fast and reliable applications.
Get started quickly with the Grafana Cloud free tier: 500 virtual user hours/month, 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces, 50GB profiles, and more.
Collaborate on performance testing
Use a developer-centric experience that bridges the gaps between the traditional Dev, Testing, and Ops silos, allowing teams to work together on testing.
Boost release confidence and speed
Integrate performance testing into the CI/CD process, allowing teams to continuously test existing SLOs and deploy new features without breaking them.
Reduce MTTR with full stack visibility
Correlate load test results and server-side data to gain full context for troubleshooting performance issues — without switching platforms.
Why use Grafana Cloud for performance testing?
Create tests faster
- Get started with the easy-to-use, well-documented k6 APIs and CLI and a familiar scripting language, JavaScript.
- Onboard users quickly and lower the barrier to entry for writing test scripts with the GUI test builder and browser recorder.
- Schedule and automate testing from the web app, CLI, and CI pipelines and use SLOs as the pass/fail criteria.
- Configure diverse test scenarios to model real-world traffic patterns in load tests.
Combine frontend and backend performance testing
- Leverage the Playwright-inspired k6 browser API to simulate user interactions — such as clicking, typing, and navigating through pages — and capture browser performance metrics.
- Run load tests at the protocol level and deploy a few virtual users at the browser level for a hybrid approach, providing a holistic view of your application’s performance.
- Debug issues faster with out-of-the-box reports on Web Vitals metrics, detailed browser interaction timelines, and screenshots captured during test runs.
Run cloud tests
- Launch tests from 21 geographic locations to ensure a great experience no matter where your users are.
- Run load tests in the cloud for up to 1 million concurrent virtual users or 5 million requests/second.
Analyze performance test results
- The intelligent Cloud Insights algorithms automatically surface test and application performance-related issues.
- Detect performance changes when comparing results between tests and trends over time.
Correlate performance testing and observability
- Go from running performance tests to problem resolution in a seamless experience.
- Visualize and query performance tests in Grafana.
- Add k6 visualizations to your existing Grafana dashboards.
- Automatically correlate performance test results with server-side metrics, logs, and traces to find root causes quickly.
It’s easy to get started with Grafana Cloud k6
For full implementation details and best practices
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Create tests
Write a test in your text editor or IDE, or use our no-code tools to speed up test creation
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Run cloud tests
From the CLI, run the k6 cloud command. In the Grafana Cloud k6 app, use the script editor, test builder, or re-run a listed test
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Analyze test results
View real time result visualization as the test runs and correlate the data with other data sources in Grafana dashboards
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