Integrations & Tools

Test authoring

Codeless tools to speed up the test creation.

Test Builder
Inspired in Postman API Builder. Codeless UI tool to generate a k6 test quickly.
https://k6.io/docs/test-authoring/test-builder
Browser Recorder
Record a user journey to base your k6 test.
https://k6.io/docs/test-authoring/recording-a-session/browser-recorder

Code k6 scripts in your IDE of choice. Empower your development workflow with IDE extensions.

Visual Studio Code Extension
Run k6 tests from VS Code.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=k6.k6
IntelliJ IDEA
Run k6 tests from IntelliJ IDEs.
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/16141-k6
IntelliSense
Get code autocompletion and in-context documentation.
https://k6.io/docs/misc/intellisense

Generate a k6 script quickly from an existing file.

HAR-to-k6
Convert a HAR file to k6 script.
https://github.com/loadimpact/har-to-k6
JMeter-to-k6
Convert a JMeter .jmx file to k6 script.
https://github.com/loadimpact/jmeter-to-k6
Postman-to-k6
Convert a Postman collection to k6 script.
https://github.com/loadimpact/postman-to-k6
OpenAPI generator
Convert Swagger/OpenAPI specification to k6 script.
https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-your-api-with-swagger-openapi-and-k6

k6 can output test results to various backends.

By automating load testing with your CI / CD tools, you can quickly see when a code change has introduced a performance regression.

Extend the functionality of k6 using Go code and import them as JS modules in your k6 script.

Tutorial: Creating a k6 extension
https://k6.io/blog/extending-k6-with-xk6
xk6-chaos
An extension for running chaos experiments.
https://github.com/simskij/xk6-chaos
xk6-datadog
An extension for querying Datadog metrics.
https://github.com/dgzlopes/xk6-datadog
xk6-kafka
Produce and consume Kafka messages in Avro format.
https://github.com/mostafa/xk6-kafka
xk6-notification
A Slack and Teams notification library.
https://github.com/dgzlopes/xk6-notification
xk6-redis
Redis client.
https://github.com/dgzlopes/xk6-redis
xk6-sql
A SQL extension to test against PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite.
https://github.com/imiric/xk6-sql
xk6-url
An extension for parsing and normalizing URLs.
https://github.com/dgzlopes/xk6-url
xk6-zmq
A ZeroMQ client.
https://github.com/dgzlopes/xk6-zmq

Please get in touch with us on Slack if you have a tool or add-on that works well with k6, and we will list it here!