2 years ago

Category: Software, Data

Observability software provider Grafana Labs’ purchase last week of open source load-testing tools and services provider k6 will provide users with a more deeply integrated testing function for Grafana’s console. The move also underscores the importance of continued and proactive pre- and post-production observability for software releases. By adding extensible testing to its observability stack, logs, metrics and traces k6 services will be available directly on Grafana’s console and integrated with other metrics data that Grafana provides, Raj Dutt, CEO and co-founder of Grafana Labs, told The New Stack in an emailed response to questions.

k6’s open source load testing tool and SaaS offering, in addition to load testing, offers chaos and reliability testing, as well as performance and synthetic monitoring. The facility of being able to integrate k6 for load testing throughout the production pipeline for software development can be of use to developers who might have previously foregone testing due to concerns about slowing down production releases.