grafana/k6

A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript

Developer toolsGo#golang#load-testing#load-generator#javascript#es6

2.3 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 26, 2026, 11:40 UTC.

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About the project

k6 is a load testing tool written in Go with JavaScript scripting. It lets you define tests as code, run them locally, in CI, or on Kubernetes, and measure performance of HTTP, WebSocket, gRPC, and browser scenarios.

Useful for

Run an HTTP API load test from the CLI and assert p(99) response-time thresholds.
Embed a k6 script into a CI pipeline to check performance on every release.
Simulate WebSocket or gRPC traffic and export metrics to Grafana.

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

16 stars so far today, about 30 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 10 per day, so that's 3.1× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 2.6× that of the previous week and a half.
GitHub Trending Go today: #13, +33 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 31,610
Today: 16 · ≈ 30 by evening
Forks: 1,644
Issues and pull requests: 6,399
Watchers: 333
Language: Go
License: AGPL-3.0
Latest release: v2.3.0 · September 21, 2026
Created: March 21, 2016
Last push: September 25, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 26, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #13, +33 stars

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