Accès aux identifiants
Reads environment variables, test scripts, and optional cloud tokens.
brew
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de k6 pour les workflows d'agents IA.
sécurité des agents
k6 runs load tests that can hit local or remote systems with scripted traffic.
Reads environment variables, test scripts, and optional cloud tokens.
Can generate traffic against production endpoints or upload cloud results.
Can publish test results or stress external systems.
Gate cloud uploads, production targets, and secret-backed test runs.
Allow local dry tests; require approval for remote load, cloud output, and tokens.
installation
brew install k6local Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install k6MacPorts ports tree · net/k6/Portfile · Source: api.github.com
nix profile install nixpkgs#k6nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/k6/k6/package.nix · Source: api.github.com
sudo zypper install k6openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · k6 · Source: download.opensuse.org
choco install k6Chocolatey community package catalog · k6 · Source: community.chocolatey.org
scoop install main/k6Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/k6.json · Source: api.github.com
winget install --id GrafanaLabs.k6 -eWindows Package Manager source index · GrafanaLabs.k6 · Source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com
aperçu
Modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript
historique
Grafana k6 is an open source load and performance testing tool written in Go with test scripts authored in JavaScript or TypeScript, designed for developer-friendly reliability testing from local runs through cloud and CI workflows.
k6 began as an open source load-testing tool from Load Impact, with public releases visible from 2017. It combined a Go runtime with JavaScript test scripts, aiming to make load tests feel like code that developers could keep with application projects.
Load Impact rebranded around k6 in 2020, including the GitHub repository move from `loadimpact/k6` to `k6io/k6`. Grafana Labs acquired the Stockholm-based k6 company in June 2021 and folded the project into Grafana's observability stack.
In 2025, Grafana announced k6 1.0 as a general-availability milestone with Semantic Versioning, stability guarantees, TypeScript support, native extensibility, and a stronger long-term support story.
k6 adoption grew from teams wanting scripted, automatable load testing without older GUI-heavy workflows. Its JavaScript API, CLI-first design, thresholds, CI integrations, and Grafana/Prometheus-friendly metrics made it attractive to developers, SREs, QA engineers, and platform teams.
After the Grafana acquisition, k6 became part of a broader observability loop: generate load with k6, observe behavior in Grafana-backed systems, and use cloud or Kubernetes execution when local tests are not enough.
Users write test scenarios in JavaScript or TypeScript and run them with `k6 run`, often checking thresholds in CI. More advanced setups send metrics to observability backends, run distributed tests, use extensions, or execute tests through Grafana Cloud k6.
k6 is significant because it made load testing feel like a normal developer CLI dependency: install a binary, commit scripts, run in CI, and export metrics. Its Go-plus-JavaScript architecture also makes it an interesting packaging target: a single executable with an embedded scripting engine and extension ecosystem.
posture de sécurité
Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour k6. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
local files
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
~/Library/Application Support/k6/config.json~/.config/k6/config.jsonCredential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
~/Library/Application Support/k6/config.json~/.config/k6/config.jsonexécutables
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
k6 | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.
métadonnées d'installation
| Clé du paquet | brew:k6 |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.1.0 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/k6 |
| Page d'accueil | https://k6.io |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/grafana/k6 |
| Docs amont | https://grafana.com/docs/k6/latest |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0-or-later |
| Archive source | https://github.com/grafana/k6/archive/refs/tags/v2.1.0.tar.gz |
| Dernière mise à jour | 2026-06-30T09:51:09Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dépendances de compilation | go |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
faits du registre
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | k6 |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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correspondances dans les bases sources
Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.
k6
nix profile install nixpkgs#k6k6 2.0.0-1.1
Modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript
sudo zypper install k6k6-bash-completion 2.0.0-1.1
Bash Completion for k6
sudo zypper install k6-bash-completionk6-fish-completion 2.0.0-1.1
Fish Completion for k6
sudo zypper install k6-fish-completionk6-zsh-completion 2.0.0-1.1
Zsh Completion for k6
sudo zypper install k6-zsh-completionk6
sudo port install k6k6
choco install k6main/k6
scoop install main/k6GrafanaLabs.k6
winget install --id GrafanaLabs.k6 -episte source
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