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Know More About Parallel Requests In Grafana K6

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hi folks, In this blog, we will explore more about parallel requests in our favorite performance testing tool, Grafana K6. However, you may be asking what the circumstances are and why we use them. So let’s start with some core fundamentals of “Parallel Requests.” Parallel requests are requests that are sent at the same time. Parallel requests are sometimes called “concurrent” requests. Why should we Continue Reading

K6 results with InfluxDB and Grafana

Reading Time: 5 minutes Hi folks, In this blog, we will be learning, how to showcase k6 results statistics in the grafana dashboard. For routing the k6 statistics log to Grafana, we need need to reroute them with a database. In this blog, we will be using InfluxDB for rerouting. So, let’s get going and integrate k6 with Influx DB and Grafana. Why use Grafana and Influx DB for Continue Reading

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Different types of Performance testing in k6 | Tech

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hi Readers, In this blog, I will explore how it is possible to run many types of testing in k6. Each type of testing has a different purpose. K6 Basically, It is a free and open-source load testing tool for testing the performance of APIs. K6 has a goal-oriented testing mode, and users can define goals using Thresholds when building their tests.  Different Types of Testing There are many Continue Reading

With Grafana K6, a Quick Overview Of Dynamic Correlation In Performance Testing

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hello there, everyone. In this blog, we’ll talk about and learn more about dynamic correlation in Grafana K6, our favorite performance testing tool. You might be wondering what the circumstances are and why we utilize them. So, let’s start with basic correlation principles in performance testing. The technique of retrieving a value from a prior HTTP response and using it in a further HTTP request Continue Reading

Browser Recorder in K6- A Quick Overview

Reading Time: 4 minutes In this blog, we will learn about generating a k6 test script based on user sessions via the Browser Recorder extension. This extension allows us to capture everything that we have done in browser, and generate a k6 script for us automatically, and link it to our k6 Cloud account. Note :- k6 comes with two methods for recording a session: Browser Recorder extension — generates Continue Reading

Difference Between Gatling And Grafana K6

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hi Readers, In this blog, I am going to explore, Gatling and Grafana(K6).They both are performance load testing, open-source and powerful tools. Gatling:- Gatling tool is open-source and released under the Apache 2.0 license. It is used for performance load testing. It was released in January 2012 and it is written in Scala language. Compared with other tools so it is a powerful tool. Hence, it performs Continue Reading

API Load testing with K6 in a data-driven framework

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hi friends In this short blog,  we will explore how we perform load testing with different types of APIs with the help of the k6. But you may think that we already have JMeter and Gatling tools available in the market for load testing. So why do we use k6? But this k6 tool has its own advantages, in this short blog, we will also Continue Reading

How to test API load with k6 using GitHub Actions

Reading Time: 5 minutes Hi friends, As we are all familiar with CI/CD and it has taken a very crucial place in the software development industry. Along with our development code therefore it is very important to integrate our automated tests with CI/CD as well. But you may think that we already have Jenkins and other CICD tools available in the market so why do we use GITHUB action Continue Reading

Load Testing with Postman and k6

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hi folks, In this short blog, we will explore how we can use our functional postman collections to perform load testing. You may think that we already have a postman runner and we can run the collections by increasing the iteration. But this approach has a major flaw in it, we’ll explore it later. So without much ado, let’s get started. Load Testing I’m pretty Continue Reading