Grafana k6 for Beginners: Why observability needs testing
Video Overview & Insights
Having observability and monitoring solutions is a great way to gain insights into your applications' health, behavior, and performance. However, it doesn’t prevent incidents. Observability needs a partner, and this is where Grafana k6 can help you!
Hi guys, an important note on accessibility, that background music throughout your presentation is a bit of a problem for us neurodivergents and I suspect for hard of hearing too. Makes it quite difficult to focus on the presentation.
In this video, Marie Cruz, a Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs, explores what Grafana k6 is, why it's the missing puzzle piece in your Grafana stack, and how to get started.
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amazing intro into K6, thank you Marie!
💡 USEFUL LINKS
Grafana k6 OSS documentation: https://grafana.com/docs/k6/latest/ or https://k6.io/docs/
thank you for the instructive video.
Grafana Cloud k6: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/k6/
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very well explained in such a short time. 🇵🇭
⏰ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Why observability needs testing
01:15 What is Grafana k6?
02:59 Demo: Getting started with Grafana k6
awesome explanation
07:00 Different types of load testing
08:13 Demo: Using stages in Grafana k6 to simulate ramp-up and ramp-down periods
You guys should do a series based on a fictional project that covers all this grafana components/projects,emulating real work scenarios, the content creators from grafana labs have very cool relaxed way of presenting… awesome keep the good work 🎉😁👊👏
09:39 Demo: Visualizing test results to Grafana Cloud k6
12:14 More information about Grafana k6
Such a good video! Happy you're making more videos! We need more testing + observability content!