k6

by Grafana Labs

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Versions:

  • 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 1.7.0 by Grafana Labs is an open-source load-testing utility written in Go and scripted with JavaScript, designed to let developers, DevOps teams, and QA engineers validate the performance and resilience of APIs, micro-services, web applications, and back-end infrastructure before issues reach production. The tool generates configurable virtual-user traffic from a single command-line binary, producing real-time metrics on latency, throughput, error rates, and saturation that can be streamed to Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Datadog, or exported as JSON and CSV for deeper analysis. Typical use-cases include continuous integration smoke tests that fail a build when response times exceed thresholds, nightly stress runs that reveal breaking points under thousands of concurrent sessions, soak tests that uncover memory leaks over hours, spike simulations that emulate sudden traffic surges after marketing campaigns, and chaos experiments that measure recovery time when dependencies are degraded. Because scripts are plain JavaScript ES2015/16, teams can store them in Git, parameterize them with environment variables, reuse helper functions, and integrate the same tests into GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, or any platform that can invoke a shell step. The 49 public releases delivered so far show an active cadence that has added distributed cloud execution, HTTP/2 and WebSocket support, browser-level metrics via k6 browser, and native Kubernetes operators, keeping the project aligned with modern development stacks. k6 is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are supplied through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always providing the latest version and supporting batch installation alongside other applications.

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