What's the difference between Site Reliability Engineering and performance testing? SRE and performance testing/engineering have a lot of overlap. Where does performance testing end and SRE begin? And what does this mean for people in those roles? To discuss this topic, we have three people with varying areas of expertise: Nicole van der Hoeven (k6) is a performance engineer, Stephen Townshend (IAG) has recently changed careers from performance to SRE, and Daniel González Lopes (k6) is an SRE who learned about performance testing when he joined k6.

Are you looking to integrate k6 with Grafana? Here's how to install and use the k6 Cloud Grafana data source plugin, as demonstrated by Nicole van der Hoeven. This plugin recreates the k6 Cloud dashboards in Grafana and works with locally hosted instances of Grafana, Grafana Cloud, and Grafana in a Kubernetes cluster.

Load testing with k6 can be daunting for beginners. In this k6 Office Hours, we talk about first impressions and potential issues when getting started with k6. k6 Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven and k6 Technical Customer Success Engineer Viktor Mihajlovic welcome a new member to the k6 team, Software Engineer Inanç Gümüs.

Nicole van der Hoeven discusses the basics of load testing with k6 and Grafana in 20 minutes, including a demo of how to get started with k6 and how to integrate it with Grafana using the k6 Cloud data source plugin and Prometheus Remote Write.

In this office hours, Nicole van der Hoeven and Tom Miseur are joined by Leandro Melendez (Señor Performo) to talk about SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs in performance testing-- and what they have to do with "non-functional requirements".

In this video, Nicole van der Hoeven shows how to integrate k6 and Grafana to get load testing results in Grafana and the Grafana observability stack, including Prometheus via Prometheus Remote Write.

Nicole van der Hoeven talks about what performance testing is, why it's the other half of observability, and the easiest way to run a test using k6 while seeing the results on Grafana. She mentions integration options, involving the k6 Grafana data source plugin as well as how to utilize Prometheus Remote Write to visualize k6 load testing results along with other metrics to Grafana. This is a pre-recording walkthrough of the live webinar Nicole did for Grafana Labs on September 16th, 2021.

In this presentation, Nicole van der Hoeven talks about what chaos engineering is, what it has to do with testing, and how to run chaos experiments and load tests in the same script, using k6. She also talks about how to set up Grafana and Prometheus for observability during chaos testing.

Tom Miseur, Technical Specialist at k6.io, talks about how to get a unified realtime GraphQL API from various data sources, and how to load test it using k6. We go over a demo app and show how to create a k6 load testing against it.