grafana/k6

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A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript

Stars: 31.5k
Forks: 1.6k
Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 703
Avg merge: 8d 12h
Merged PRs (30d): 36

Dominant language: Go
License: AGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 17, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted hacktoberfest

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703 open issues indexed

Clustering and distributed execution Open

feature

grafana/k6#140 · 32 comments · 106 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Support for QUIC protocol Open

feature good first issue

grafana/k6#238 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Possible improvements for http api Open

new-http ux

grafana/k6#436 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
How to add a standard deviation metric Open

enhancement

grafana/k6#515 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Remove the golang.org/x/net/http2 dependency Open

evaluation needed refactor

grafana/k6#548 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Move Output options in lib.Options Open

evaluation needed refactor ux

grafana/k6#587 · 8 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
stack overflow while processing a encrypt http request Open

bug js-compat

grafana/k6#644 · 8 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Threshold enhancements - custom exit codes per threshold Open

enhancement evaluation needed ux

grafana/k6#680 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Error when cookies contain double quotes Open

bug new-http

grafana/k6#711 · 5 comments · 4 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Option to set default HTTP configuration globally Open

evaluation needed feature new-http ux

grafana/k6#761 · 7 comments · 16 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Use HDR histograms for calculating percentiles in thresholds and summary stats Open

high prio performance refactor

grafana/k6#763 · 14 comments · 3 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Better handling of binary response bodies when --http-debug=full Open

lower prio ux

grafana/k6#774 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Per-VU init lifecycle function Open

awaiting user evaluation needed feature

grafana/k6#785 · 9 comments · 35 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Remove/improve the per-VU buffer pool? Open

performance refactor

grafana/k6#794 · 11 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Refactor HTTP digest authentication Open

bug new-http refactor triage

grafana/k6#800 · 7 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Discard binary HTTP response bodies by default Open

enhancement evaluation needed new-http performance

grafana/k6#845 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Feature request: DNS test library Open

enhancement feature

grafana/k6#851 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
export options with invalid JSON Open

ux

grafana/k6#855 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Feature request: dynamic DNS override support Open

enhancement new-http

grafana/k6#857 · 0 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Improve HTTP request tracing Open

enhancement evaluation needed new-http refactor

grafana/k6#866 · 0 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Emit an errors metric and have a default error rate script abort threshold Open

enhancement feature ux

grafana/k6#877 · 11 comments · 6 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
HTTP/2 server push Open

feature good first issue lower prio new-http triage

grafana/k6#881 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Configuration issues Open

evaluation needed high prio refactor

grafana/k6#883 · 20 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
New CPU and memory usage metrics Open

enhancement feature

grafana/k6#888 · 12 comments · 17 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Preventing Setup Requests from Influencing Test Results Open

enhancement evaluation needed

grafana/k6#891 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Run windows tests with `-race` Open

ci good first issue help wanted tests

grafana/k6#903 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Better metrics about sleep and group Open

enhancement help wanted

grafana/k6#921 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Support unencrypted HTTP/2 connections (i.e. h2c) Open

enhancement evaluation needed help wanted new-http refactor triage

grafana/k6#970 · 20 comments · 31 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
--http-debug incorrectly reports http protocol Open

bug

grafana/k6#986 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
URL parsing API Open

feature

grafana/k6#991 · 17 comments · 11 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Deprecate the REST API/v1 Open

enhancement refactor ux

grafana/k6#995 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Allow listing of files in the init context Open

evaluation needed feature ux

grafana/k6#1005 · 1 comment · 18 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Measure DNS lookup times for HTTP requests Open

enhancement feature new-http

grafana/k6#1011 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Support for JWTs signed by private keys Open

enhancement evaluation needed feature

grafana/k6#1017 · 4 comments · 11 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
--http-debug shows incorrect "Accept-Encoding" Open

bug

grafana/k6#1042 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Allow proxy config per request Open

enhancement evaluation needed feature new-http triage

grafana/k6#1045 · 10 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Refactor/Rethink loading/compiling/transpiling of scripts specifically from archives Open

enhancement evaluation needed lower prio performance refactor

grafana/k6#1048 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Replace afero with the new Go io/fs package Open

evaluation needed maintenance refactor

grafana/k6#1079 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Support network emulation options Open

evaluation needed feature new-http triage

grafana/k6#1098 · 12 comments · 10 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Fix error_code tag values Open

bug high prio refactor

grafana/k6#1104 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Don't convert IPv6 CIDR ranges to IPv4 in the blacklist WARN messages Open

lower prio ux

grafana/k6#1105 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Support HTTP long polling Open

evaluation needed feature new-http

grafana/k6#1122 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
console.log in the init context doesn't respect --console-output Open

bug enhancement

grafana/k6#1131 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Track and improve k6 memory usage and performance Open

ci high prio performance

grafana/k6#1167 · 19 comments · 15 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Cookies not saved during NTLM auth negotiation Open

bug evaluation needed help wanted refactor

grafana/k6#1210 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Potential race with multiple enabled outputs Open

bug lower prio

grafana/k6#1222 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Moving prepareHeaders back to Client.NewRequest Open

lower prio maintenance new-http refactor

grafana/k6#1241 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Case-sensitive header APIs are not usable Open

bug evaluation needed new-http

grafana/k6#1246 · 14 comments · 9 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
summaryTrendStats option doesn't affect the k6 REST API results Open

bug evaluation needed lower prio

grafana/k6#1253 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026
Use self-hosted solution for OCSP stapling check Open

tests

grafana/k6#1275 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 17, 2026

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