Monitoring your k6 load test: how to install Grafana and Prometheus on a Kubernetes cluster
How do you monitor your application during k6 load testing? In this video, Nicole van der Hoeven learns how to install Grafana and Prometheus in her Kubernetes cluster (hosted in DigitalOcean), then runs a load test against her application with k6.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Installing Prometheus and Grafana via Helm
4:20 Setting up Prometheus metrics in Grafana
5:38 Running a k6 load testing script locally
7:34 Outputting load testing results to k6 Cloud
8:46 Next step: Piping out k6 results to Grafana
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Learn more about k6:
Website: https://k6.io
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/k6