# grafana/k6

> 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.

- Magnitude: 2.3 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 31,611 total · +18 stars today, ≈ 32 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Go · License: AGPL-3.0 · Created: 2016-03-21 · Last push: 2026-09-25
- GitHub: https://github.com/grafana/k6 · Homepage: https://grafana.com/oss/k6/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/grafana/k6

## 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.

## Why it’s here

- 18 stars so far today, about 32 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 10 per day, so that's 3.3× as much.
- Over the last two days the pace is 2.7× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #13, +33 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,644
- Issues and pull requests: 6,399
- Watchers: 333
- Average over the last week: 15 per day
- Usual pace: 10 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 3
- Latest release: v2.3.0 (2026-09-21)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-28 … 2026-09-26: 8, 4, 3, 8, 8, 7, 9, 9, 2, 10, 6, 14, 7, 13, 10, 10, 10, 17, 15, 13, 11, 2, 7, 8, 7, 12, 7, 15, 22, 18

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Go today: #13, +33 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-26 12:21 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.