Grafana Cloud k6 provides managed execution and results for k6 test scripts. It connects load testing data with Grafana dashboards, alerts, and other observability signals.
About
Grafana Cloud k6 is a fully-managed performance testing platform integrated into Grafana Cloud, powered by k6 OSS. It allows teams to create, run, and analyze load tests to detect performance issues and regressions, providing a unified view of performance testing results alongside other observability data like metrics, logs, traces, and profiles within the Grafana stack.
Features
- Test Builder (graphical interface for creating tests)
- Distributed performance testing with Private Load Zones
- Scalability up to 1 million concurrent virtual users or 5 million requests per second
- Cloud Insights for automated performance issue surfacing
- Cross-correlation of test results with observability data (metrics, logs, traces, profiles)
- Support for protocol-level and browser-level tests (Playwright-inspired API)
- CI/CD integration for continuous performance testing
Pricing
Grafana Cloud k6 utilizes a Virtual User Hour (VUH) billing model (specifically Fractional VUH v2). The platform offers a free tier (limited to 500 VUH/month) and self-serve pay-as-you-go options starting at $0.150 per VUH, with enterprise custom plans available. An online calculator is provided for cost estimation.
Author / Company
Grafana Labs
AI features
- k6 Script Authoring mode (AI-powered assistance for generating, converting, and improving k6 performance test scripts)
Latest release
v2.2.0 · 2026-08-10
Release v2.2.0 features include: streaming of logs to Grafana Cloud during k6 cloud run --local-execution, the addition of chromium.connectOverCDP for browser test connections to running Chromium instances, availability of TextEncoder/TextDecoder as globals, WritableStream support in k6/experimental/streams, a new k6 cloud load-zone list command, and two new experimental feature flags: merge-run-tags and freeze-env.
Sources
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/testing/k6/introduction/ ↗
- Performance and Load Testing | Grafana Cloud k6 ↗
- Use k6 Script Authoring mode | Grafana Cloud documentation ↗
- Run your first tests | Grafana Cloud documentation ↗
- grafana/k6 v2.2.0 on GitHub ↗
- Grafana Pricing | Free, Pro, Enterprise ↗
GROUNDED VIA EXA · 2026-08-11