k6

by Grafana Labs

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Versions:

  • 1.7.1
  • 1.7.0
  • 1.6.1
  • 1.6.0
  • 1.5.0
  • 1.4.2
  • 1.4.1
  • 1.4.0
  • 1.3.0
  • 1.2.3
  • 1.2.2
  • 1.2.1
  • 1.2.0
  • 1.1.0
  • 1.0.0
  • 0.58.0
  • 0.57.0
  • 0.56.0
  • 0.55.2
  • 0.55.1
  • 0.55.0
  • 0.54.0
  • 0.53.0
  • 0.52.0
  • 0.51.0
  • 0.50.0
  • 0.49.0
  • 0.48.0
  • 0.47.0
  • 0.46.0
  • 0.45.0
  • 0.44.1
  • 0.43.1
  • 0.43.0
  • 0.42.0
  • 0.41.0
  • 0.40.0
  • 0.39.0
  • 0.38.3
  • 0.38.2
  • 0.38.1
  • 0.38.0
  • 0.37.0
  • 0.36.0
  • 0.35.0
  • 0.34.1
  • 0.34.0
  • 0.33.0
  • 0.31.1
  • 0.30.0

k6 1.7.1 by Grafana Labs is an open-source load-testing tool written in Go and scripted with JavaScript, engineered to let developers and DevOps teams validate the performance of APIs, micro-services, and full web stacks before they reach production. Because tests are expressed as plain JavaScript modules, the same language used for front-end and back-end code, performance scenarios can live alongside unit tests in source control, be executed locally during development, and then scaled out to thousands of virtual users in CI pipelines. Typical use cases include smoke-testing a new endpoint immediately after a commit, running soak tests to discover memory leaks over hours, spike-testing autoscaling policies, or benchmarking response-time SLAs before a major release; the command-line runner outputs machine-readable metrics that plug directly into Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB, or any StatsD consumer for long-term trend analysis. Fifty numbered releases since inception have incrementally added protocols such as Web-Sockets and gRPC, advanced load shapes, distributed cloud execution, and a built-in JavaScript API for custom thresholds, assertions, and correlation, ensuring the tool keeps pace with modern cloud-native workflows while remaining lightweight and dependency-free. As a developer-centric utility in the performance-testing category, k6 is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are supplied through trusted Windows package sources such as winget that always provide the latest version and support batch installation alongside other applications.

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performance 31
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