Frontend Observability with Grafana Faro x k6

Frontend Observability with Grafana Faro x k6

k6
Jan 21, 2023

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! Come and join us!

Do you want to join our team? 💜

Check out:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/4342665004
https://boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/4730141004

📚 Video Chapters

00:00 - Introduction

04:40 - Grafana and k6 vacancies

06:10 - What is browser instrumentation?

08:15 - What is Grafana Faro?

15:06 - What metrics does it collect?

20:27 - First impressions of xk6-browser

29:56 - Demo

🖥 Useful Links

💡 Core Web Vitals - https://web.dev/vitals/#core-web-vitals
🖥 Test application - http://grafana.datahovel.com:3389/login
🗂 Github project for the Faro demo - https://github.com/Condla/web-shop-o11y-demo
✍ Introducing Grafana Faro - https://grafana.com/blog/2022/11/02/introducing-grafana-faro-oss-application-observability/
✍ Get started with xk6-browser - https://k6.io/blog/get-started-with-xk6-browser/
✍ Load testing guide - https://k6.io/docs/testing-guides/load-testing-websites/