For our first k6 Office Hours in 2023, Developer Advocates Marie Cruz and Paul Balogh will be joined by Stefan Dunkler from Grafana, who will talk about browser instrumentation with Grafana Faro and xk6-browser!

A small retrospective on 2022 and perspectives on what 2023 will bring. Thanks to everyone involved with k6. Happy Holidays!

Did you know that k6 can also be used for chaos testing? On this week’s Office Hours, Developer Advocates Leandro Melendez and Marie Cruz will be joined by Pablo Chacin to talk about xk6-disruptor, an extension for injecting faults into your k6 tests.

Do you want to expand how you can k6 beyond its core features? On this week's k6 Office Hours, Developer Advocates Paul Balogh and Marie Cruz will talk about k6 extensions! If you're interested to know what a k6 extension is, how to get started, and a demo on how to use it, join us in this episode!

We demonstrate how to run distributed load testing using Kubernetes with k6 and k6 operator. k6 can already run up to 40,000 virtual users from a single load generator, but if you want to scale that up further, you can use the Kubernetes operator to create a k6 custom resource within your cluster.

What is hybrid performance testing? It's an approach that involves writing and executing browser- and protocol-level testing scripts, but it does come with its own challenges. On this week's k6 Office Hours, Developer Advocates Marie Cruz and Leandro Melendez (Señor Performo) discuss the best practices for running hybrid performance tests with k6.

Just announced: distributed tracing with Grafana k6 x Tempo! Daniel González Lopes joins us to talk about what distributed tracing is, and how traces using the Tempo backend could help you troubleshoot your performance issues and improve overall reliability. This new integration was just announced at ObservabilityCon 2022, and Daniel's here to tell us all about it!

Leandro Melendez and Nicole van der Hoeven discuss all about load testing metrics. What do they all mean? Which ones do you REALLY need? Understanding metrics and analysing test results is arguably the most important part of a load test-- and also the most difficult! We're answering all the questions you ever had about the many metrics that come with load and performance testing.

How do you do assertions in k6? CTO Pawel Suwala talks about different ways to implement BDD/TDD in k6, including an assertion library called k6chaijs. We also discuss the differences between checks, thresholds, and assertions.

What are the different load testing types, and how do they relate to the k6 executors? We go through every single k6 executor and how, when, and why you should use each one in this week's episode of k6 Office Hours. We are Marie Cruz, Paul Balogh, and Nicole van der Hoeven. We're all Developer Advocates at k6 (Grafana Labs), but we have backgrounds in automation testing, site reliability engineering, and performance testing.