K-SIX News v0.47

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 11:57:21 +0100

In this video, my colleagues (Leandro Melendez, Marie Cruz, and Paul Balogh) and I discuss the latest updates in k6 v0.47.

Here are some of the highlights:

We’ve created an official k6 Prometheus Grafana dashboard and another dashboard for Prometheus with native histograms.
New APIs have been added for Prometheus Remote Write output for k6 (authentication and HTTP headers).
We’ve increased the character limit for metric names from 63 to 128, aligned with the OpenTelemetry specification update.
k6 browser tests can be executed in Grafana Cloud by everyone.
We’ve improved the cookie API for k6 browser.
We’ve added support for page.on('console') for k6 browser.
There are now official Docker images that include a Chromium-based browser for running k6 browser tests within CI/CD pipelines.
Distributed tracing is in public preview for Grafana Cloud.
xk6-file is a new extension that lets you rename files within your k6 script.
xk6-gcp is a new extension that adds k6 support for messaging using Google PubSub.
xk6-dashboard is now an official Grafana extension that lets you generate HTML dashboards from k6 test results.
k6x is a new utility that automatically detects when you import k6 extensions and builds the custom k6 binary for you so that you don’t have to.
k6-operator now has a Helmchart deployment option.

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